Quote from Joab:
ROFMAO
So what got us this far over the last 200 years ?
He is a MORON and you are an even bigger MORON.
The US has become a socialist state and destined to be another England.
We will see how happy with a NOWHERE market.
Quote from mokwit:
I can't believe how these Banks are whining and running for protection now that what they do to others is happening to them. Makes me want to vomit, seriously.
They shoiuld be shown as much sympathy as they show people on the recieving end of naked shorting/FTD only made possible by I-Banks facilitatiing it.
Same with commercial banks, they should be shown the same sympathy they show someone with a good payment record who misses because he lost his job [NONE].
Quote from Malcolm:
Flytiger, thank you for the link to that deepcatpture web site. That story was absolutely gripping. I mean it. It was like a novel or a movie. I couldn't stop reading it. (I've always thought of Jim Cramer as a relatively harmless entertainer. You know, "Funny... like a clown." This portrait of him is actually a little hard to get my mind around.)
But mostly I agree with the people who said, "you can't fight this, it's too big." Do you really think anything will actually be done about this whole issue? Will anything change?
Quote from mokwit:
"Within a very short period of time, you will some of the high and mighty with cuffed hands shielding faces"
Unlikely, that would be tantamount to justice. these people are rich and powerful i.e above the law in the New America. Any hearings will become just another thing that is too sensitive for the American public. Refco hearings are behind closed oors for a reason - something to do with their naked shorting facilitation perhaps? Their CEO was a Brit so an example could be made. Npot so with this lot.
Quote from piezoe:
Don't delude yourself. Though there are elements of free market capitalism existing in the US (particularly with regard to small businesses.) In the broad economy, we've been very far from free market capitalism for a long, long time. Our government is a government by and for big businesses and special interest groups with money or voting clout, such as the AMA AARP AHA, etc. We are just as far from free market capitalism as socialism is. I'm not taking any position here re good or bad, just pointing out reality. In true free market capitalism the customer or client can vote with their feet. But to make that work you have to have a government that serves as a watchdog to prevent cartels and monopolies and keep the market place truly open. The managed (poorly at times) economy of the American Republic is far from the free-enterprise capitalist model. One could even say that attempts by the Reagan and latter Bush administrations to move the US toward a capitalist model (in their minds at least) by removing or ignoring regulation, have so far proved to be utter failures. And that's to be expected, since, ironically, to have any hope of maintaining free markets you have to have very strong government oversight and regulation. The exact opposite of what the Reagan and Bush administrations attempted. [/QUOT
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