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full interview q and a below on link. i watched this last night and his answers to some direct questions are cringeable and clearly this guy had lost touch with reality. i dont know if anyone remembers but the comparisons to star trek and the episode with captain mudd who was also mad are...

ABSOLUTELY 100 PERCENT CORRECT.

when the sec bans short selling. investigates 50 hedge funds for shorting bear and lehmans. and then the net result is the dow ends 100 down. i think the market returned its own verdict. there are people willing to sell stocks with the paper at these levels because they believe...

naked selling? legitimate selling? i dont know any other market OTHER THAN STOCKS that does not allow you to take a view and sell without being persecuted. as someone said last night on cnbc. ' why is it buyers dont have to wait for a down tick to buy.' too long a share price...

if bear stearns went under on short selling, rumours and visible problems on the balance sheet?? then remove the public eye. private company means no visible level 3 assets and values. no short sellers. no rumours. etc etc. not a bad plan really. can they pull it off?

Lehman Brothers' CEO Dick Fuld is seriously mulling a way to take itself private and out of the public eye, The Post has learned. According to sources, talks internally centering on privatizing Lehman have gotten very serious consideration after a blistering onslaught of rumors and questions...

unfortunately i did not have the benefit of a private fee paying university education and also serving at the elite end of finance. could i make a suggestion here to the governor and bernanke that perhaps they should do the following: PUT INTEREST RATES FUCKING UP. Inflation hits 3.8%...

this is why i think in my humble opinion the stock market will head significantly lower. citibank have level 3 assets of $1.1 trillion dollars. they still mark them internally and probably optimistically. the market has now wised up to this and the other banks and have realised that...

yes wow and whoopee. paulson and bernanke have saved the day. on the back of this very important bail out news and indy mac bank being recsued by the fdic the dow futures at 11:21 london time are up yes wait for it 84 ticks...

well he just came out and said ' we only support them in their current format ' . that equates to no bailout. hence stocks down. hence fannie/freddie back down. he did not even hint in the slightest form of a possible bail out.

amazing. the end of fannie and freddie with no support from the treasury or other officials. obviously the thought of bailing out $5 trillion dollars worth of debt was even too much for him. FANNIE FREDDIE R.I.P

im going for sunday night. will be the usual fed/treasury/white house breakfast on the lawn. bush will obviously be out of his depth so he will let bernanke and paulson come up with some well worded political bullshit statement that the us is fighting the war on mortgage terror with...

only the fact that people are quickly realising that they are insolvent and more importantly a bail out does not include share holders. the more obvious news is the nyt article. believe me by sunday the federal bank of fannie and freddie usa will have been set up

i hate being right on this but this is going to happen sooner than we think. the shares are worthless. any day now paulson will eat his own words. he is going to go down as history as the us treasury secretary that had a bank go under and two of the largest gse's as well...

bloomberg yesterday Chances are increasing that the U.S. may need to bail out Fannie Mae and the smaller Freddie Mac, former St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said in an interview. Freddie Mac owed $5.2 billion more than its assets were worth in the first quarter, making it...

this is a great what if read. lets just hope it does not turn out this way. July 10 (Bloomberg) -- ``Granddad Benny, is it true that capitalism committed suicide?'' Granddad looked up from the fire he was stoking with bundles of 2006 and 2007 vintage mortgage-backed bonds. ``In a...

on trying to profit from this the best trade would be long of the fannie or freddie debt or related debt. not sure how to do this as i have no expertise in trading these areas but one thing is for sure. forget being a shareholder of fannie/freddie - own the debt. this will be worth a...

finally someome said it. be careful the next fews days/weeks. i think the fed will nationalize these two entities any day now. this will put a huge bottom on the stocks and probably a minimum 500 tick rally possibly more. failure to do so will result in further stocks losses. July...

i think there are a few points here to address: (1) the total volume is still very high and masks the underlying problem on the exchanges so they wont probably address the fall in bond volumes. (2) the majority of their business seems to come from newer products that have come on in the...