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Here is a fair question...... What if you had a trading division that was privy to large position holdings and their price levels.....knowing that the holders were highly leveraged ? What if the main goal was to provide the railroad for hedge funds by providing extensive credit....in order...

The G20 did not mention the reason oil and commodities prices have moved as they have..... It certainly was not normal supply demand.... The G20....Subprime Only Meeting ? Hedge funds and private equity firms got an apparent exemption from tough new controls, with the G20 saying...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f8c0216-b193-11dd-b97a-0000779fd18c.html Just goes to show that everyone talks their book..... Size of market happens to matter in relation to positions taken..... This part seems to be missing..... Again....another reason for a new world wide exchange...that...

Jprad If you really think the Fed is a public bank and a US institution then there's really little point in discussing the very real problems of logistics, communications connectivity, transmission latency, data security among a host of other issues that would confront a reliable and...

Trendytrader Nope. The real issue the need for a globally independent rating agency maybe in the IMF. The BS ratings did the most damage as loans wouldn't have been able to be sold if rated correctly. Next issue is GAAP to not allow off balance sheet BS assets...

Exactly..... You know small issues .....like offsheet balance accounting....needs to be driven into non existence.....this is the number 1 problem today..... Funny money was created beyond the imagination....but paid out in real terms to Fuld, Blankfein, Mack, Paulson....it is a long...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f9e4a0a-b0d4-11dd-8915-0000779fd18c.html All assets of significance should trade on an open and public boiler plated electronic exchange with centralized clearing..... All assets of significance should have a mandated period publicly available boiler plated...

John Thain certainly has a bird's eye view of financial issues across the board... And by the way....for the brokers that are left at Merrill.....what could be easier than having access to BAC clients ? This is a slam dunk for Merrill brokers......Why ? With interest rates so low....and...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/11/eleven-step-financial-reform-proposal.html In the right direction...... Now add the new worldwide direct access exchange.... And good to go......

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122663373660027575.html A necessary part of fairer globalization.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111303901.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122658994035824547.html Why not a 24/7 electronic worldwide securities market...... 20 cents per 100 shares Uniform rules and regs worldwide Boiler plate accounting Boilerplate reporting Boilerplate entry requirements No margin.....but...

There are thousands of people in jail for doing a lot less.... Justice in the US seems to be a highly questionable concept......

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JK13Dj01.html Good summary.....

Man...the multiplier effect of these losses is..... just incredible..... This is why your numbers are not far fetched.... This is also why.....capitalism has to take hold by re-establishing the worldwide stock exchange..... And you are right....The US is better than most...

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Business/Story/A1Story20081104-98195.html

Gnome All of this couldn't have come at a worse time. Boomers are getting ready to retire and most have lost 50% of their equity market assets. Also, housing equity is lower... so that's a diminshed source of possible retirement income. And, Boomers would like to sell their larger...

Gnome....really like your comments... I know Dow 3000 seems ridiculous now, however: 1. SP500 earnings of $33, and a 10x PE = Dow 3000. (Current SP trailing earns = $56) 2. The Tech Wreck of a few years back... the Naz lost 78%. 3. The Nikkei recently made a new low... -82%.... and...

Gnome wrote... Or maybe... In 4 years the Dow will be down around 3,000... the country will be acknowledged as being in Depression... Debts and deficits soaring, $USD crashing... And NObama is thrown out on this can... It would be worth it to the country to slay the Socialist...

Random ..... You know how it is....... If a person buys a stock ...and it moves from $10 to $100....they will forget about the past.....in about 5 minutes.... There is no better form of capital for the purposes of capitalism than stock..... And I cannot wait until the new world wide...