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I read an interesting piece. Basically the major tire factories set up shop in China BUT with the agreement they had to export all of the product. Must be a heck of a savings to mfg something 7k miles away, have it shipped and sell it cheaper than if we mfg tires here in the US, the...

The failure of the intervention was the simple fact that there were not enough restrictions attached to the rescue and/or the institutions themselves should have been divested, split apart, broken up as a means of de-centralizing all of these separate financial centers collectively leveraged...

Remember the US had a crisis fund (I think a 33 cent bbl tax, after the exxon incident) to deal with oil spill cleanups. When the BP spill arrived the fund was "empty". Probably the same thing will happen with this crisis fund.

Question. Is quantitative easing a substitute for leverage? If banks et al no longer can margin 30-1 etc, and need "real" money/collateral that will provide lower margin ratios, how else can this be accomplished and maintain the same playbook. What has changed in the big picture since...

I started listening to the video earlier today, boring, I did find the written transcript and I skimmed through it. Yawn. Good find Savant on the sec regarding this co.

Yo Mama is so fat she uses redwood trees to pick her teeth!

Delivery: Barrels of oil on wheels. Pfftttt..... Our business is in the shitter but in other news: FedEx said it would buy MultiPack, a Mexican domestic express-delivery firm. lmao double down. F'kn A brother.:D ------------------------- Whatever happened to: All this extra...

Hate to break the news to ya'll but Bernanke finds no correlation between outsourcing and unemployment here in America. Ahemmm.. we are all barking up the wrong tree. Now with that being said, Obama has two options, extend UE benes and door number 2 ........ Obama pleading with CEO's to...

Those CEO's are brave meeting up with Obama. C'mon, he personally fired a CEO, Wagnor of GM. Now there was a CEO who could have....well did do some serious hiring...plenty of corporate jet pilots out of work...oh well. How about putting caterers back to work .... need those big...

My grandma was great, everytime I used to see her she'd say ''here's a fiver, dont tell your mother'' I said ''why not?'' She said ''it's her's''

Nice thread. Guess who got in the market at the peak? Me. lmao. Yuppers. march of 2k. That was a mess.

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of secondary offerings (SOs) on the liquidity and trading activity of stocks outstanding. The results reveal that liquidity and trading activity increase after the execution of SOs. We observe that the offering discount is explained by the size...

I think Bernanke has a handle on what doesn't work based on two things, the Depression and Japan. Currently I think our economy is a guinea pig for untried ideas from the Fed. If in the past the lessons were to little too late, I'd guess the Fed would err on too much, too soon concerning risk...

I went out for Italian food the other night and after consulting the menu I ordered the pageone. "Thats Page 1 you putz" replied the waiter.

The postman knocked on my door this morning with a parcel in his hand "can you sign for this" he said. I replied "I think you have the wrong house, the deaf kid lives next door"

That was my first guess but I wasn't sure he could handle the news.

The truth.

You never have to worry about forgetting that you ate corn.

There is a YMCA that is going to have frosty the snowman instead of Santa at its Christmas party.