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Care to explain? They have plenty of free cash flow to maintain the dividend, EPS is down from retirement charges, FIOS rollout etc.

The pork that goes on at the state & local level is DISGUSTING. I live in MA ( Cali-northeast ) & in my hometown the highschool that used to service 3 towns now services just 1 town ( 60% less students than in the '70's ) & yet the voters recently passed a 16 mil proposal for a high school...

"But the one thing that I have is my wife and children — that they can’t take away from me.” Over/under on how many days it takes his wife to leave him after he goes under? 5?

@10.00 per share MSFT would have a PE of 5 & a 6% divivend. I wouldnt want to see what kind of economy we would be in to have MSFT fall to 10, it would be ugly.

I had some money in a tech stock ( sorry forget which one now its been 10 years ) & the price of the stock dropped 20% in 1 day on no news. The CEO held a press conference the next day & told the bagholders not to worry, everything was fine, earnings were right on track etc. Well earnings...

100% right, I love how its in vogue now to chastise American taxpayers for not saving. Why the hell would anyone save when interest rates on savings minus inflation is negative??? The government inflation rates are a joke, sure computers & TV's are cheaper now than 10-20 years ago but important...

Contango is your answer.

I'll use the same analogy.. 10 people on my block called the police reporting a man walking down the street acting strangly & carrying a butcher knife. The police never show up & the man murders my neighbors. Are the police at fault? It turns out the police dispatcher is married to the...

The SEC's budget has doubled since 2001, so they didnt have the resources to check out a potential 50 billion dollar ponzi scheme?? CNBC had a segment on a broker who worked for a Boston based hedge fund who had sent the SEC numerous detailed letters over the years explaining to them that...

The SEC recieved NUMEROUS letters, emails & phone calls over the years questioning the validity of Madoffs dealings yet chose to look the other way. That a crime of such proportions was allowed to operate under their watch & yet Cox's view that being pressured to institute a short ban for 3...

A 50 billion ponzi scheme was run right under his nose & the worst mistake he made during his tenure was a 3 week ban on short selling??????? WHAT THE F:confused: CK? This clown should be burned at the stake.

I've been trading FAZ, FAS & SRS the last few weeks. These ETFs are portfolio destroyers for people dumb enough to buy & hold them but are quite nice to trade intra-day. I dont like to hold the ultra shorts through the close & refuse to hold the ultra longs over night, my thinking the odds of...

Anyone else feel like throwing up when you listen to CNBC concerning Wall St. bonuses? The argument that these perks are needed to "retain the best & brightest" on Wall St. is a joke. There was a sgment on CNBC today & the talking heads were concerned that GS would have trouble retaining "top...

Which banks have access to the FED discount window & how does the FED determine how much "free money" they can take? With the discount rate @0% banks can theoretically take as much free money ( ie FED money created out of nothing ) as the FED allows & just park it in treasuries & pocket the...

care to enlighten us?

If these people get a bail out I'm seriously going to just stop paying my income taxes. Income taxes of the common man going to make the super rich whole again cause some of their investments didnt work out?? What is this world coming to?

Looking at FAZ ( 3x bear ) & FAS ( 3x bull ) in particular. Can these ETF's be shorted? If you shorted both since these funds started trading ( this Nov )you would be up close to 40%. These funds need the market to go in one direction only to do well over time, the more the market trends the...

So I'm unAmerican for shorting GM? I think the only way for GM to survive ( long term ) is Chapter 11. GM needs a complete overhaul in its labor contracts, pension & health care obligations, dealer network etc. I cant see any possible way that stock holders arent wiped out in any possible...

Anyone else shorting or buying puts on GM? I cant see any scenario in which the sharesholders arent wiped out eventually. Congress was talking about bond holders taking a haircut for the bailout, since when do bond holders lose before shareholders are wiped out? Seems like free $ to me.

http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/beginning-end/9659 here is the article for the link adverse.. "I am often asked what signs I use to measure where we are in the crisis and whether it will get worse or better. This next article posits the emergence of a new type of bond sold by the US...