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The new term.... Perhaps... Ration...aliztion..... as in rationing vouchers.....

Buffett considers this "free money". Buffett also knows that at the end of the day, there will be a lot fewer big banks remaining.....but his will be among them.....and they will make "above normal" profits in the future because a lot of competition will have been eliminated..... All in...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JJ18Dh01.html One should question why the money should be centered in NY or London ? Why should the management of the financial markets not move to Hong Kong and Singapore....? Make no mistake.....it will.....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122428500742546395.html The article pinpoints the legal largesse revolving door to better paychecks from the SEC G Scale to the Corporate side...." Where the Money Is"......

It has recently become too convenient to depend on the state.... Many governments may resort to a time and time again failed concept.... Hopefully ....not again..... http://mises.org/story/3105

Hey ....if they are not going to get the dough from themselves.... Who does that leave ...to get the $ from ? Blankfein could care less....even if it was his mother..... Third world countries' children going hungry ? Not in the way of my bonus...

Just line 'em up....and shoot 'em.... After taking their assets of course....

http://www.clusterstock.com/2008/10/goldman-we-were-wrong-about-that-oil-forecast-now-it-s-going-to-50- ok

As bad as US indices look....US Indices have still performed better than many other stock market indices.... ie ....some country indices down almost 70%.... ................................................... Cash is king..... The Templeton approach.....and a 3 year dollar averaging...

Oil down 50% in three and a half months.... When prices are up......bark...bark bark bark... When prices are down.....hey, everything's better.... No oil company sympathy threads? I can hear the violins playing..... FO .......................................... When one...

Chinese buys the good parts.....makes a good electric car for $18,000 instead of $40,000.... Will hire a lot of people...in the US as well.... All is well.....the firm will grow.... Nothing bad about it.....

http://www.rgemonitor.com/ Some reasons being.... Changing the rules in the SS game... Allowing LEH to fail.... etc....

Somewhere , somehow the US Justice system must recognize the false values which depend on simple home prices.... In simple terms, a simple home price of $100,000 has many times this value in legal obligations called derivative contracts whose accounting methods are supposedly legal and...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/banks-and-innocent-fraud.html

It will be interesting to see is the effort is either fake or real.... The most moronic ambulance chaser lawyer who never won a prior case should handily win this one....

Well now.... Just may happen anyway..... There is no way that the government can rectify or maintain previous house prices.....and the mountain of levered and useless dependent paper legal valuations on top of it.... A few trillion $ is small.... What is amazing is the initial...

Giving a continual "incentive" is exactly what is needed..... The bottom line should be viewed as less government or more government..... More government = less freedom.... Nothing would beat the idea of minimizing government cost..... How about reducing government cost by 75% ...

What would be interesting is to see a comparative analysis with the rest of the world's economies..... If the financial conditions are even worse in the Eurozone, thus causing havoc to the other commodity based and manufacturing based economies..... Then what would a true comparative...

One curiosity is that once the US banks get used to Nationalization.... it would seem that the other segments of the economy go into socialistic mode as well..... So one would question whether or not the US is moving towards the Danish high tax model.... It seems as if this is a given...

Once upon a time.....there was an actual $120,000 house...... When one bought a house, one paid an honest price.... Then one day, the price was altered by legal largesse of all kinds..... Government housing programs Money printing Government forced interest rates New debt agreements...