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    Brokers are scum.

    OPM The most important acronym in the lexicon of financial history. And a damned one.
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    The Consequence of Sin - The Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

    If G_d set the rules of right and wrong, sin and not, then temptation serves what purpose? Is G_d a trickster or malevolent? Why allow the imperfections in man that set him up for likely sin, repeatedly, throughout life?
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    Estimate: Japan FY09 Passenger Car Output To Revert To 1979 Level

    That assumes that unemployment doesn't get any worse, banks start loaning money out to credit-risky borrowers again, construction picks back up (a lot of pickup trucks were sold to contractors and tradespeople during the real estate boom - I swear the trades that worked me each had a pickup...
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    Hank Paulson Admits He Never Really Understood How Mortgage-Backed Securities Worked

    jem, I couldn't ever say it better myself. Paulson, Greenspan and all the rest were either grossly incompetent (I'm talking earth shattering levels of incompetence) or criminally reckless.
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    Hank Paulson Admits He Never Really Understood How Mortgage-Backed Securities Worked

    wtf are you even referring to? The issue here is whether Paulson, as CEO of Goldman, did or didn't know what a RBMS or CMBS was, because, as you may or may not know, the whole issue of RBMS and CMBS defaults and their illiquidity have played a huge role in triggering the global financial crisis.
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    My best friend Brutus...

    Send out POSTCARDS WITH HIS PICTURE & YOUR CONTACT INFO IN THE MAIL TO PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Post these at all local humane shelters and pounds near you, also, giving them personally to the people who work there. This method saved my dog's life a few years back (a black lab). I must...
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    Lawyer to Stars’ Ex-Wives Has Never Been Busier As Ex-Husband's Fortunes Crumble

    This article is more tabloid-esque than the articles I typically share, though it, too, deals with the economic downturn. I'm not the most bearish person on the economy you'll meet, but I'm definitely way over on the bearish side. I think the U.S. is going to officially have it's 2nd...
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    Lawyer to Stars’ Ex-Wives Has Never Been Busier As Ex-Husband's Fortunes Crumble

    Lawyer to Stars’ Ex-Wives Has Never Been Busier http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/business/global/26divorce.html?hpw By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Published: May 25, 2009 LONDON — A Mr. Tooth on the phone for you, sir. For years, just the word that London’s premier divorce lawyer...
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    Estimate: Japan FY09 Passenger Car Output To Revert To 1979 Level

    Japan is in a depression, literally. They claim Ireland's unemployment rate will soon reach 20% - it was 1% in 2006, and is 11% now.
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    All speculation is over for now, the biggest speculators (banks) are broke!

    Banks have money, courtesy of Bush-Paulson-Obama-geithner-Bernanke and their masters. They just need to hold it and use it to repair their capital base as their losses come due, continuously, for who knows how long... ...oh, and they're going to be asking for quite a bit more money as soon...
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    Hank Paulson Admits He Never Really Understood How Mortgage-Backed Securities Worked

    Pabst, you're probably right. I'm sure Paulson was intimately familiar with the design, marketing and consequences, legally, financially and otherwise, of bundling, buying, selling and otherwise trading MBSs. /not
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    Try 'Gorilla Trades' or 'Vector Vest.' They almost guarantee you'll make money. They even have enough money to hire Davy Jones, that megastar and phenom, in their ads: <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess"...
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    Why is it scarier to spend money when you have it, then when you dont?

    There's a book titled 'The Millionaire Next Door.' It was written by two financial planners who have years and years of experience. They basically said a nearly universal trait among the truly wealthy was that they were the cheapest people you could possibly imagine. They held seminars...
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    Aver Credit Card HH Debt is 10k; Highest? 4 Fla Cities & LA, Austin, Charolotte...

    http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/20/american-consumers-overspending-lifestyle-real-estate-credit-card-debt.html Spending Habits Worst Cities For Credit Card Debt Lauren Sherman, 05.20.09, 04:50 PM EDT Spenders are still racking up credit card debt in these parts of the country. Gone...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    G_d, I love this ad: It's so appropriate for real traders. Real traders admit the inherent manic-depressive nature of the beast. Posers try and deny it.
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    Nuclear bomb goes off -- futures soar!

    There has been a high degree of divergence between futures and open market performance.
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    You have 411 posts to your name in two months. At that pace, in three years, you will have 14,796 posts. Keep doing that 'food research!' Maybe if you hit upon the right formula, your logic and math skills will improve! :D
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    Powell fires back

    It must suck for you when more and more people don't take the bait of your incredibly inflammatory and ridiculous statements. You are the stock_trd3r of the P&R Forums. You're one less person who deserves or warrants any serious responses. Troll (Internet) From Wikipedia, the free...
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