Citi fell 6% today. Bear ( the one that had the helicopter golfer CEO last year) fell 10.5%. Ambac fell 23%.
Bloom is out with a Special Report on GS eps that looks just terrible.
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This credit crisis should have been done months ago. It's now stretched another calendar quarter. It's morphed everywhere it can including into huge image, PR, leadership, competence and emotional economics angles. This isn't Asian currency, Lat Ams or Mexicans defaulting, or Russians acting out. This is an American problem created by Wall Street and world markets want it fixed yesterday. No more foot dragging and failure to produce fixes and results.
Instead what markets the world over are getting is something like this milktoast Blankfein saying he thinks its" half over" last week or `'My goal in life is to be lucky for 25 years in a row'' WTF? Where are we getting these weaklings from? Why isn't he out there saying This Is What The Problem Is And This Is What Goldman Sachs Is Doing About It Right Now.
If they dont get a lid on the underlying financial issues and this image and confidence mess fast, we're at risk of a crash.
Finally back to Citi and the "racism" thing. I dont see it that way. And as for diversity, why not Krawchuck, why not some other killer bee female or a nononsense black guy - something like Darden's ceo or Powell pre UN blowup type. Real clean up people. And on the big caps they should be American and should have a Right Stuff appearance I say.