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Since a bank holiday, or even the announcement of a future one, would cause a run on the banks, wouldn't it make sense to have an alternating holiday? So like, over a one week period, each bank would ...

Won't matter.
The media has paid no attention to the fact his first job was for a terrorist, no attention to his legal affairs with ACORN intimidating banks to give inappropriate loans and register d ...

I have to agree I am also keen to see some blood.
Not so much out of any particular emotion as a keeness to see opportunity taken to restore some form of justice and honesty.
Go after them while th ...

As for cutting, I personally believe we could cut damn near a trillion from the budget. its important to remember the enumerated powers. Spending outside of that is not hitting bone. We may think we ...

When will it be 0%?

How about -1.5%?

Yeah. Let's PAY people to take "money." That oughta work.

With inflation around 15% and even CPI inflation at 5%, they've been paying people to take the d ...

I'd noticed a month ago the plunge that the growth rate had taken. No doubt, it was from banks stopping their lending a great deal and the slowing economy. This, the rebound, was to be expected give ...

I'm guessing around 8000-8500 on Nov. 4. We'll be below 8000 before Christmas hits, so I voted before Christmas season (late Nov.).

Really? What's the bottom? Like the human population, the DJ ...

They likely mean 100 years "at current rates of consumption." That's how these numbers are usually given, and it's always disingenuous as hell. Especially, in this case, with all the buzz about buildi ...

Tonight Cramer was talking about having 5 years worth of cash on hand in a savings account. For a Wall Street guy he is now the definition of doomer.

joeltrout

Last night on the Colbert Report, ...

I thought they were pretty much out of oil. Something like 10-20% of their income is oil related anymore. I think most of it is investing, business and tourism.

1 is wrong, 2 is correct. While ...

How can our government be run by Big Oil but do such a worse job than Big Oil on finances? Razz

Is this really shocking? I think I, and just about everyone here, is better qualified for a loa ...

I think there should be a difference noted between small businesses (which have profits of maybe a few tens of thousands or a couple hundreds of thousands per year) and corporations, which have CEO's ...

I never set up my university ID with Wachovia as a Freshman despite having an account with them. Then last year, so I could buy some Au and Ag, closed my account with them. Good riddance.

Lowem, ...

It sounds to me like the wolf is no longer guarding the hen house. Instead, he has taken up residence. Shocked

And he's hired a dozen more wolves to aid as "bodyguards" for the hens and charges t ...

I got my first ride in a modern diesel passenger car(a Mercedes) this week via a coworker and wow, they really have come a long way. You'd never know it was a diesel. It wasn't noisy or smokey or an ...