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    Roger
    Knights
    Sep 26 06:56 AM
    PTF: Weak Dollar, Stock Buybacks Offer Hope to Tech Investors [view article]
    I think there's a typo:
    "Average investors might buy ..."
    should be "Average investors might not buy ..."     Reply
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    Roger
    Knights
    Sep 26 06:56 AM
    PTF: Weak Dollar, Stock Buybacks Offer Hope to Tech Investors [view article]
    I think there's a typo:
    "Average investors might buy ..."
    should be "Average investors might not buy ..."     Reply
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    axelrod608
    Sep 25 04:56 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    -jr - "Quite obvious Georgell is not equiped to handle those finnace boys from wall street, they sure got one over on the good old boys from Texas."

    That is not my take. I see this as yet another in a string of "crises" George II is using to put yet another one over on the sheeple and the Congress at the expense of the taxpayers. Patriot Act, WMD, attack Iraq, all presented to the Congress and the American people with the same hurry up, we gotta do this now, can't wait and if you're opposed you're unpatriotic. Bush acts like a hick, but he's not a dummy. You don't get an MBA from an Ivy League School if you're a dummy. Congress will wring their hands, talk tough and pass some poorly planned piece of legislation that few if any of them will read before voting on it.

    This is not news. I started shorting Fannie and Freddy over two years ago. Lots of people knew and many have been talking about the coming debt crisis. EMPIRE OF DEBT has been out for years. The rush to try to fix this quick, now, is just George II's parting scam. Payback for years of campaign contributions, etc. It is the systemic version of Enron.     Reply
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    woodsey
    Sep 25 03:31 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I still hear people talking "free market" which has come to mean "anything goes". I have talked to people who went through the mortgage loan process, and what they were urged to do was criminal. Now we are urged to pour 700 B of gasoline on the fire, and it is said to be medicine. I say it is arson. Reply
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    jrheintz28
    Sep 25 03:29 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    axelrod608; is right on the mark but, short of labeling our Washington friends as slick.
    Quite obvious Georgell is not equiped to handle those finnace boys from wall street, they sure got one over on the good old boys from Texas.

    Another fact, never trust that politician who wants to represent you in congress, his memory will fail after the election. JQPublic will be left holding the bag.

    axelrod608 also on the money by stating bankrupcy as being the vehicle to solve this problem, the truth will surface during the process and ther will be people going to jail.

    Lets all start beating that same drum. We need to be heard!     Reply
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    Brewer
    Sep 25 02:11 PM
    Companies Hitting the Brakes on PCs [view article]
    Apple has the best hardware, and the best software. Thanks MS, it's been fun (not) but you are no longer the OS. Apple is the OS, you are just a program running under the Mac OS, or not at all.

    Just wait until Apple cuts prices, the marketshare will go ballistic. Oppenheimer was absolutely correct, none of the current PC box builders will be able to compete, they can hardly compete with Apple now, this is why Apple has over 70% of the market for computers costing $1000 and up. When Apple decides the time is right to take the lower priced PC market, there is nothing stopping them.     Reply
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    wallyjm
    Sep 25 01:24 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    when nixon went off a gold backed currency this is the final result of fiscal irrresponsibilty. fiat money. Reply
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    Right in
    San
    Francisco
    Sep 25 12:40 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Newsflash for Lawrence Yun of the National Association of Realtors: The housing industry will not return to normal growth until the excesses in prices and quantity caused by 20 years of easy money have worked their way through the system. We are arguing about the mechanics of the financial side of it, but that is what will happen as the laws of economics once again triumph. Reply
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    BlueAmerican
    Sep 25 12:28 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Have some faith. The sun will come up tomorrow. Yes, the taxpayers will be paying the bill but I bet a few years down the road it will be seen as the right way to go. I think P & B get it that if there isn't a pay off for Main Street then there won't be a pay off for Wall Street. P has not done a good job of selling it but when the final deal of the bail out is all worked out, it will not make anybody happy at first but down the road it will have been the seen as the right thing that did get done. N obody likes to take medicine but they all like what it does. Reply
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    hanson001
    Sep 25 12:09 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    axelrod6008: If I could have my way, the people that helped create this problem would have zero assets. That would mean that a great deal of the world's population would have no roof over their head. The plan that's in front of Congress is the government attempting to preserve what is left.

    The government will not allow a run on the banks? Yeah, like the Great Depression, when we had bank holidays, after the damage was done. And the French government couldn't stop the bastille coming down, eventhough they said don't do that. One could argue the run has already begun with Bearns Stearns and Lehman. The government always acts after the infection has taken hold.     Reply
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    axelrod608
    Sep 25 11:09 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Jon T - the domino effect has already happened. In many ways. Example - Florida's state pension plan got stuck with a bunch of Lehman stock. OOOps !!! So did most other pension plans, money market funds, etc. Honestly, do you think there is an investment entity out there that currently holds 100% of 2005 assets ? No way.

    You cannot have a run on the banks if the government prohibits it. I'm not saying nothing should be done. What I'm saying is that what's done should be done to protect and preserve what's left, not to enrich the folks who created the problem. The P&B plan is designed to preserve and protect the status quo. The tidal wave of liquidity is designed to bail out the perps, the ones who engineered this mess in the first place.

    P&B are right in one respect - the magnitude of what is about to happen is enormous. There are over 1,000 Trillion dollars of face value derivatives all around the world. Let's say the US - at the epicenter of this foolishness - has half, 500 trillion. And lets say, conservatively that the loss is 12%. - a mere 60 Trillion.

    Anyone who thinks the paltry 700 B P&B plan is going to fix this is , er. overly optimistic. Foolish perhaps.

    There's one more aspect to bankruptcy that I did not note earlier - in bankruptcy, forensic accountants would go over the books to find improper tranactions. I suspect this is another important reason why the insolvent fincos want to create an alternative to bankrupcy like the P&B plan. To keep their officers and directors out of jail.

    Nobody, myself included, has all the answers. There is NO plan or program that will make this mess alright. Japan did this 19 years ago and is still in recession. Never recovered. Anyone who thinks "the economy will turn around soon" is just not paying attention.

    My objection to the P&B plan is simple - it is business as usual. Same players, only a few of the rules changed. And P&B want to keep the game going. The perps have lost all the stockholders' money, they now want to play the game with MY/OUR money. It is business as usual that got us here. You don't honestly think the perps are going to do anything different do you ? Example - when Bernanke opened the discount window, Lehnam grabbed a bunch and gave it out as bonuses. I want people who do this kind of stuff taken out of the game.

    The people running our nation's fincos make Bonnie and Clyde look like a pair of social workers. You cannot seriously want these people getting access to federal funds.

    The P&B plan is a bailout of the people and institutions that got us here. The bankruptcy system would eliminate the people and institutions that are/were the worst offenders. There is a huge difference.

    Finally, P T Barnum said it best, "you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time". The administration of George II has fooled most of the people most of the time. And I see the P&B plan as his parting "gift", not to "we the sheeple", but to the big money special interests.

    If you are in favor of the P&B plan all I can say is good luck. You're going to need it.     Reply
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    mollytjm
    Sep 25 10:51 AM
    Companies Hitting the Brakes on PCs [view article]
    Apple will do better and better as more business realize they won't have to keep as big an IT staff to handle tech problems. Reply
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    Jon T
    Sep 25 09:58 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    axelrod608: dealing with ONE Lehman Bros is fine.

    So you're happy to sit on your hands and wait and see what happens when the domino effect takes down, not two or three or ten, but three hundred banks around the world...?

    Then, your arguments and excuses will no doubt start with: "In hindsight..."

    The situation is very serious and the precipice pretty dam close. It ain't politics, it's Confidence with a capital C.     Reply
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    hanson001
    Sep 25 09:48 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    axelrod608: "In the P&B (Paulson and Bernake) plan I have yet to hear where the proceeds would go. Wouldn't paying the creditors be a good thing, especially since P&B have repeatedly made the case that their plan is to fix the credit problem ? "

    The tax payers, like always, are the creditors. The proceeds, depending on how the reverse auction turns out, could be a good investment. Don't get me wrong. I am for the free-hand no matter what. My belief is that great stress is the only way to change behavior.

    axelrod608: "It would be a piece of cake to add a dozen or more judges to the bankruptcy system to handle the additional demand. The cost would be recaptured in the asset auctions. More responsible companies with stronger balance sheets and more conservative executives would buy up the assets of the insolvent companies and put them back to work. And they wouldn't play Lotto with their shareholders' funds."

    This problem is global and I believe we are close to a run on the banks. The behavior in the money market accounts and the t-bill yields should give you a clue. People, smartly, have no confidence in the system. Too many lies, too much greed, too many people with great dept levels crying about the government having the same problem. Wow! We have a very sick culture.

    Our sin nature makes me collect ammo.     Reply
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    captainjohan
    n
    Sep 25 09:43 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Bush knows, macain knows, they are on way out.so they want to milk the system till it has suckers. Reply
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