Quote from OldTrader:
LOL. This may be the first time in my life that anyone called me naive.
No where in any of my posts did I say "only people that took huge risks get hurt".
According to Nancy Pelosi, Paulson, Chris Dodd, Obama, Barney Frank, President Bush, etc etc etc., without this plan we're all going to get killed. Hey, who am I to argue, right?
Now, just for arguments sake, are you SURE they're right? How good of record do you think Nancy Pelosi has anyway? What if it's not as bad as they say?
Between you and me, I don't think anyone knows how all of this is going to come out. But if we fall apart, we'll all be damaged in one way or the other. It's not going to hurt me too bad. I'm not leveraged at all. Plenty of cash. Hell, I might even make some dough on the way down.
Throw this $700 Billion in there and if it doesn't work, we lost $700 Billion plus whatever else it costs. And guess what? Governments have a wonderful record of failing when they try to buck the laws of supply and demand. It distorts the market. It just might make it worse.
So far, ILoveVol seemed to think he had this all figured out...but looking at it this morning...he was dead wrong. I assume he's taken his first loss.
OldTrader