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  • General Electric: Genuine Risk of Collapse?
    <<The virtual crash in its stock price indicates that there is something seriously wrong with GE.>>

    This should read: The virtual crash in the stock market indicates that there is something seriously wrong with short-term trader mentality and the lack of regulations on short sellers.

    If we don't do something about these 2 things soon, we ALL will have a lot more to worry about then just GE's stock price.
    BTW: your article is total bs.
    Nov 18 07:20 am |Rating: +4 -8 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Alcoa's View of the Economy
    Yeah, let's all just padlock the borders and put up, "Out of Business" signs, too! Be very careful of what you wish for here. The negativity in everyone's reporting has become reality way too easily & quickly.
    Jan 08 07:28 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Canadian Royalty Trusts Will Never Return to Their Former Glory
    WOW! What a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG article that no one will read just to try and prove out his short posItion.
    Nov 24 06:57 am |Rating: +2 -5 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sirius Reverse Split Only "to Satisfy Listing Requirements"
    Reverse splits do NOT work!! To heck with the Nasdaq and thier listing. So we go Pink, certainly can't hurt the stock price that much more. All a reverse split will do is give shorts more wiggle room to drive the stock right back down again.
    In a market like this, trying to make the Nasdaq happy is NOT in SIRI's best interest. Hey, it was the Nasdaq's total lack of control over 'Hedge Funds Gone Wild' that has driven the price to $.25 in the first place.

    NO REVERSE SPLIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nov 11 06:52 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Alcoa Makes Cuts - But Analysts Say Not Enough
    It is just sooooooooo easy for anal_ysts and others to provide a negative outlook on companies, and the entire American society as a whole, right now. An entire cottage industry of pessimists has risen out of the ashes of the 'confidence crisis'.

    Jan 08 07:14 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Time for the American Government and People To Confront Reality
    It’s time for everyone to go back to the beginning and remember what started all this, and while it has to do with housing, it has nothing to do with the usual suspects.
    I have been saying since 2007 that what we have is a destruction of confidence, at that time in CDO’s, in order for a small group of Generation Me short sellers to destroy the monoline insurers. It all goes back to that and just snowballed out of anyone’s control (except for the short hedgies that perpetuated it) afterwards. Now we’re stuck in a mess that needs 2 things:

    1). To Pass a Wind-Fall Capital Gains Tax of 65% on ALL short sales retroactive to 01/01/08 to help pay for all these bailouts and prevent future disasters, and

    2). To refinance the monolines so that States and local municipalities can issue bonds again. At the SAME time Congress should give DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR STIMULUS for every bond written for infrastructure. Bigger bang for the buck, AND unless we get the private sector and the Pimco’s of the world involved – nothing we take hold.
    Dec 09 07:30 am |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Excessive Systemic Debt: The Primary Cause of Our Current Crisis
    While there is little to no doubt that at the root cause was everyone wanting everything with nothing to back it up. Fine - we're all pigs, BUT the end result or deleveraging as they call it - DIDN'T HAVE TO BE DONE THIS QUICKLY AND SO PAINFULLY! That is except for the fact that a small group of shorts wanted it to be, and they used poor SEC regulations (or total lack of it) to cause a crash and loss of confidence that really didn't need to happen like this.
    Shorts theme song: "No.. no.. no.. it ain't me babe! It ain't me you're looking for.. babe!"
    Dec 04 09:03 am |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • GE: What's Working, What's Not
    The only thing that is working for anything is pushing and facilitating negativity throughout the entire market. Cramer (who is not one of my fav's) called it right the other day when he said, "This market is broken!" Now I understand that Oppenhimer's crazy lady Meredith W. is bashing GE now.
    STOP IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
    Dec 03 07:17 am |Rating: 0 -4 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Shorting U.S. Government Risk
    TexM3, that's deplorable. What you should find stupid is how we let a few people destroy our confidence and economy by allowing such blatant rumor-mongering, naked shorting, and gangshorts; and NOT done anything about it.
    I am so happy that you have been able to bet against everyone so successfully.
    Nov 26 08:10 am |Rating: 0 -5 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Failure of TARP and the Government's Solution
    The failure is not in the TARP or Paulson, but rather it still lies with Cox and our society’s inability to see past the curtain and pay attention to the people that hide behind it.

    The 4 Golden Rules:

    1. Reinstate the Up-tick rule
    2. Crack down on naked shorting
    3. Institute some rules on what should be said on National TV to prevent rumor-mongering

    >>>>>&g... Pass a Wind-Fall Capital Gains Tax of 65% on ALL short sales retroactive to 01/01/08.<<<&...

    BUILD.. BUILD.. BUILD.
    JOBS.. JOBS.. JOBS.
    DRILL.. DRILL.. DRILL.
    Nov 26 07:27 am |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Shorting U.S. Government Risk
    I find that just a mention of shorting anything that has to do with our society as a whole at this point in time - Deplorable! Just deplorable!
    When is enough enough?
    Nov 26 07:13 am |Rating: 0 -8 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Less Negativity, More Inflation
    I really don’t understand what we are trying to accomplish here? We allowed a very small group of individuals to destroy our confidence in the muni bond system, then we allowed them to destroy our confidence in the mortgage system, then we allowed them to destroy our confidence in the investment banking system, then we allowed them to destroy our confidence in the commercial banking system, then we allowed them to destroy our confidence in the insurance system, then we allowed them to destroy our confidence in our financial markets, and now we’re allowing them to destroy what little confidence we have left in OURSELVES! Yeah, we all stopped spending in October, what do you expect when all the pundits, media, and so-called financial experts keep telling us a depression is coming. Well, be very careful what you wish for! I said well over a year ago that all the negativity back then would make things end very badly – well we’re there. Oh yeah it can get a lot worse, but what’s the point. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

    “The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.”
    www.youtube.com/watch?...


    BUILD.. BUILD.. BUILD.

    DRILL.. DRILL.. DRILL.
    Nov 17 07:11 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Memo to Warren: AmEx Preferred at 15%, Warrants at $12
    Maybe so, but if he's going to use his pulpit through political leaders he financed into office, then he should have been more willing to be a promoter of the greater good and not it's destroyer.
    I hope his practice of having surrogates put companies into financial trouble so he can pick up the pieces, is not utilized by the innocents he just help get elected.



    On Nov 16 04:02 PM Canuckify wrote:

    > Apppro - why should Buffet bail you out? He has a fiduciary obligation
    > on behalf of his shareholders in Berkshire not to make the same stupid
    > mistakes as the rest of corporate america.
    >
    > While I am not a shareholder in BRK, I wonder why everyone thinks
    > he will come to the rescue of everyone. He's the ultimate capitalist,
    > and as GE and GS know, he drives a hard bargain.
    >
    > I am also humble enough to know that I shouldn't be writing him any
    > memos nor making any recommendations. I can only watch, marvel at
    > his patience, and try to learn a thing or two so that I can improve
    > my own performance down the road.
    Nov 16 17:57 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Memo to Warren: AmEx Preferred at 15%, Warrants at $12
    Here's my memo to Warren:

    Hey Mr. Bigshot,
    If you had just not been such a wise guy 1 year ago and had just invested in Ambac and MBIA without some absurd limits, maybe just maybe, this entire financial mess could have been prevented.
    Think about it!
    Nov 16 08:02 am |Rating: 0 -4 |Link to Comment |View article
  • What Does Bernanke Really Know about the Great Depression?
    <<What Does Bernanke Really Know about the Great Depression?>>

    Squat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nov 04 08:02 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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