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After 23 years in the work-a-day world I finally figured out that no matter where you work or what you do you are bound to run into just a sufficient number of "problem" people to seriously degrade your quality of life. Most people are ok but all it takes is being stuck working in close...

Goat tipping.

The IPO, the loan you never need to repay. Free money.

There has to be accountability (pun intended). These ideas of "everybodys doing it" and "it just happened, it's nobodys fault" just don't cut it. They will lead to ruin.

Does Pitt work for George W.? He's sure Johnny-On-The-Spot all of a sudden? If the responsibility for truthfulness, which is required by law for good reasons, is put on the companies leaders, where it belongs, I'll bet that the public, the stockholders, will get a clearer picture of the true...

Harvey Pitt, the SEC chairman, is requiring the chief executives of the nations 1000 largest publicly owned companies to re-file their financial statements. He said they need to make sure the new statements are accurate, because if they aren't they will go to jail.

The Wall Street Journal is calling for prosecution now.

George W., at a press conference with Tony Blair this morning, said that the situation at WCOM is totally unacceptable and that it will be thoroughly investigated, and people will be held accountable.:) And Arthur Anderson, whose job it was to determine the financial health of the company says...

Piper Jaffray (NYSE:PJC)was just fined for allegedly threatening to drop research coverage of a firm if it wasn't picked to manage a stock offering.

That is an excellent tale. I was long a few months ago when a halt occurred. After waiting MANY hours it opened back up and was down 20%. I sat there watching in shock as it started closing the gap. When it got within 5% of my break-even I tried to sell, even though it was still going up like a...

Yeah, could be fun.

Priorities are all screwed up. Pop a 30 year old guy in the mouth and steal his wallet with $200 in it and you'll end up in prison for a year, lose your job, family, etc.. Steal a thousand 75 year old guys life savings and send them to early paupers graves and you get to be on TV testifying for...

Every time you buy a stock you are predicting the price will go up. Everytime you sell a stock you are predicting the price will go down. The only other question you have to answer is "over what timeframe?". It doesn't make any sense to say that it's foolish to try to predict. That's the same...

Chuckle, but there ARE other valid reasons for picking ones seat, for instance, if you're going to a show.

REALLY? Arthur Anderson? Oh man!kkkkk''''''''''''' ("kkkkk''''''''''''' " courtesy of my sons pet rat walking across the keyboard)

Of course, just as soon as they do invest in houses the market will turn up and property values will tank. That bubble is probably about to burst. (Refering to Newatthis's post-modified post)

HOLY CRAP BATMAN! That one really took a dump! That should be criminal. Oh yeah, it is!

If one were a Bull it would be nice for them if the powers that be were to manupilate prices lower afterhours. Cheap prices in the morning. Everythings on sale.:p

Yeah, probable.

NAS is down too, so far. Looks like a possible lower open. Pile on those shorts guys. hehe