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    • Thu Oct 2nd 15:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Quick Look at Henry Paulson
      While CEO of Goldman, Paulson was Chairman of The Nature Conservancy (2004-2006) and served on its Board dating back to 2001. TNC is a very crooked organization which combines environmentalism and very favorable IRS loopholes ("conservation easements") to purchase strategic tracts of land by the hundreds of acres at mere pennies on the dollar.

      While at Goldman, Paulson made >70 trips to China, and it seemed to dovetail into his TNC work. In fact, Paulson was once co-Chair of TNC's Asia Pacific Council. And as Treasury Secretary, China has been a key element of Paulson's agenda, via the four "Strategic Economic Dialogues" held between the U.S. and China.

      Therefore, his current work could very well be linked to China and his TNC past.
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    • Tue Jul 29th 15:38 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Understanding Sirius' History Of Converts May Ease the Pain
      Those who are long SIRI, I've posted it a few times over the past few weeks, but you don't seem to be getting the message: take your tax loss and move on. No matter how "cool", this technology is far too expensive to finance, proven by today's stock action on the news of yet more dilution. Although when you're losing money at the rate this company does, yet another public offering actually lowers the loss in per-share terms.
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    • Thu Jul 24th 09:58 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Financials Have Bottomed? Readers Say We're Nuts
      We are here to talk money. And you guys who've made 50% in UYG over the course of a week had best sell quickly.
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    • Tue Jul 15th 11:10 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Apple Sells One Million iPhones in Three Days
      Jon, you can't be serious. The average person standing in line is borrowing every dime of that iPhone's price tag, increasing his/her debt load all the more. This is the same Average Joe that hasn't saved a dime of earnings since 2004, according to government data, and is upside down in home equity and/or mortgage debt, not to mention auto loans and $9000+ in credit card obligations. Do you not understand that the mounds of debt that the average American has amassed, due to a lack of control of their spending, has placed the American financial system on the verge of utter collapse? This economy's revenue has been driven by cheap money for the last 12+ years. The red lights are flashing, with the collapse in financial equities, that the situation has reversed. Rather than borrowing & increasing leverage, we are now in a de-leveraging process. With America's ability to borrow any more having now reached a fixed ceiling, the simple truth is that discretionary spending is on the decline and will be for many years. Apple's $170 stock price can't hold, you're a nincampoop if you think otherwise.
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    • Mon Jul 14th 15:47 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Apple Sells One Million iPhones in Three Days
      You bullish Apple investors are hysterical! The U.S. financial system is in major upheaval, and you're buying a consumer-driven tech stock? You can't be serious.
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    • Mon Jul 14th 08:13 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Treasury Bailout of GSEs: Laissez-Faire In Serious Jeopardy
      Thanks for the warning, but I think I'll stay short. So far, the Fed's aggressive interest rate cuts have caused commodity prices to soar and the stock market to collapse. The more the Fed does, the lower the market goes. I guess some are slow to "get it".
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    • Wed Jul 9th 09:09 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Disastrous Future of the U.S.
      Tom B, thanks for posting your idiocy for all the world to see
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    • Thu Jun 26th 17:10 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius-XM Combination: A Future Microsoft Acquisition?
      Microsoft, are you kidding? This has got to be the stupidest speculation I've ever read on satellite radio. Will you people please face reality and take your tax loss? You've long missed your sell signal when you start believing your own BS. Decent technology but awful, dreadful financials. Sell the stocks.
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    • Thu Jun 26th 15:36 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      More on Technical Analysis
      The number of potato heads on these message boards defending TA is game, set, match AGAINST it. All of you dunderheads: the only reason you can defend TA as authentic is because you've made money using it in this bull phase of the market cycle that has long exceeded its normal life. You clearly haven't been investing very long, because if you did, you'd realize that the length of this bull phase is very atypical. For this reason, you can't use TA to achieve returns that beat the market over the long-term. It's called weak-form efficient market hypothesis, and history proves that you're dead wrong if you think you can rely upon it in any phase of the market cycle. Those of you who are defending TA: be looking for a job, because your black swans, cups & saucers, and point-figures won't work in the bear phase that approaches.
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    • Tue Jun 24th 17:41 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius Satellite Radio is Seriously Undervalued
      cos1000, I'm not that much of a novice to think that my posting on a message board is going to affect a stock price, particularly a stock like SIRI that trades more shares than any on the Nasdaq. If you really think that, then you are an even bigger dolt than I thought. I'm trying to save you some money, because the numbers just don't work with SIRI or XMSR, so take your tax loss and move on to something else. P.S. I've never had to "scramble" to cover a SIRI short, perhaps you should revisit the chart, this stock has nose-dived for the past 30 months. It's a zero. The second step that follows confronting your SIRI denial is admitting you have a problem.
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    • Tue Jun 24th 17:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius Satellite Radio is Seriously Undervalued
      You satellite radio investors are just hilarious, I love making money shorting these stocks! It's clear that you don't even understand the very basics in terms of a company's financial structure, and that's why I continue to make money off of your stupidity.

      Hey dolts, wake up: these companies are two years behind on the subscriber forecasts they gave the Street back in 2002, important because said forecasts were essential in order to justify the overwhelming debt load and burdensome opex structure each had deployed. On top of that, the fees that each are paying to offer the programming are so nosebleed-high that they're not generating any return on the investment. And when you have to give warrants, options, and shares to these programming sources in order to sustain the relationships, you're in deep trouble because it merely dilutes your earnings per share all the more. Geez, neither of these two companies is even operating cash flow positive, and you're investing in these companies? Are you that stupid?

      The bottom line is that, no matter how much you love the service, XM and Sirius, combined, are roughly 5 to 7 million subscribers short of where they need to be to grow profitably. That's why the merger took place, duh? The combined entity will slash costs to the bone and pray that oil prices have peaked, because without new car sales, even the combined earnings model won't come to fruition. The simple truth is that there aren't enough subscribers to keep satellite radio going for very much longer.

      If I were XM and Sirius, I'd plan to sell air time for ads just like every other radio station. They desperately need the extra revenue because, in this weakening economy, I can tell you that it makes no sense for subscribers to keep paying their satellite radio bill if they can't even afford to put gas in the car that's playing it. But that would kill the differentiation between satellite and terrestrial, you say? It's tough being a company that's struggling to survive. Now go sell your shares before you lose your shirts.
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