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    Practicality....A New Inflection Point

    We all know" it" ....it is "just what to do about it".... We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more climate...
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    GS Blankfein "Talks His Book"

    http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/03/08/business/business-us-goldmansachs-ceo.html?_r=1
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    Any potential good news that will support the financials?

    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/geithner-gone-by-june/ Getting rid of Leh and AIG ....also largely gets rid of credit default swaps.... Getting rid of Geithner by June....who is just there to save GS... Then let the smart ones cherry pick....remove many of the current mysteries....
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    Geithner....Gone By June ?

    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/geithner-gone-by-june/ Eliminating AIG and Leh would also largely eliminate credit default swaps .... Get a 2fer.... Geithner is just there to save GS.... Watch where Geithner goes to work....
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    Depression Equivalent Unemployment Rate Higher Than 17.5%

    Glennku....The Obama Lemmings http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s97/ktnotter/AmericansfollowingObama.gif Obviously in order to start more business formations....this takes lots of entrepreneurs who have some change.... What the US needs to do....which will never happen under the...
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    Obama Road

    http://mises.org/story/3367
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    Some History On Geithner

    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/former-australian-prime-minister.html
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    Depression Equivalent Unemployment Rate Higher Than 17.5%

    Gnome.... When we reach THE bottom, (2014-2016?) we're going to find an unemployment rate of 20-ish percent... THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH JOBS TO GO AROUND... what's to be done about that... ????? ..................................................................................... The Obama...
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    Depression Equivalent Unemployment Rate Higher Than 17.5%

    So ...the gummint should state two rates when comparing versus the previous depression.... Roughly just over 2x what is stated by the numbers massagers... One would suppose that these people who have been left out of the count are wondering if they are "real people"....
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    Depression Equivalent Unemployment Rate Higher Than 17.5%

    http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/a-visual-guide-to-the-financial-crisis-unemployment-rates/ If the data were calculated the same as it was in the previous Great Depression.... Previous high was 1:4 Unemployed....
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    BATS Matches $46 Billion More Than NYSE Floor

    http://www.batstrading.com/resources/press_releases/Feb_Volume_Report.pdf Go BATS !!!!!!!!
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    Volcker Proposes Separating Commercial and Investment Banks

    Volcker is spot on.... Summers and Geithner.... Are Summers and Geithner.... This would best fit the US.... As in any great company....The best set of partners.... One is very creative....one is very conservative.... Together they move mountains....1+1=1000 By themselves...
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    SEC Quadruples Fees

    SEC hikes fees... The SEC announced that it is more than quadrupling the transaction fees it charges exchanges in response to plunging stock prices. Effective as of April, the SEC will charge $25.70 per $1M in securities sales, up from $5.60. The regulator said the spike is necessary for it to...
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    Banana Republic Watch....

    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/banana-republic-watch-rodgin-cohen.html Very important to have "the right people" in "important places".... Otherwise....."Watch out !!!! ".....
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    Where Did The AIG Payments Really Go....

    The supposed "assets on the books" which rely on someone elses's paper values and this relationship to "legal solvency" is the real question at hand.... The fact of the matter is that the trickle down values of the total deposits held by banks has been squandered by excessive leverage....The...
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    Where Did The AIG Payments Really Go....

    http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/04/global-recession-insolvent-opinions-columnists-roubini-economy.html News and banks analysts' reports suggested that Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) got about $25 billion of the government bailout of AIG and that Merrill Lynch was the second largest...
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    Presidential Bait and Switch

    anotherhawkeye.... There is no country B - we will talk again when country B becomes successful. US is the world's greatest country - atleast 20 years ago - and it was and is still A. What you are proposing in B is nothing but an experiment - just like communism was 100 years ago. We cannot...
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    Presidential Bait and Switch

    Quite obvious.....Thank you.... We are just looking at the closest ones in some manner.... Switzerland has a very competitive "individual rate".... ......................................................... And you are correct..... If the US were to adapt Country B.... Very few...
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    Presidential Bait and Switch

    China...is 25% corp....5-45% individual.... All the US has to do is adopt country B....and many China companies will domicile in US.... Although labor is cheaper in China....plenty of room to pay some US workers and still be more competitive...
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    Presidential Bait and Switch

    Switzerland....Individual rates ....0-13% And US has far more natural resources.... Also has the best quality of life....most livable cities in the world.... And most economically stable.... Zurich #1...
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