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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:34 AM Original message |
The banks are betting against us right now |
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conspirator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:37 AM Response to Original message |
1. Betting? Can we just say conspiring? Cause that's what rich people do all the time nt |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. They are idiots |
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willing dwarf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. Signs point to collapse of monetary system |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
4. The banks want to get as much funny money as they can |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. more than betting against it. they're taking it down. on purpose, imo. |
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DaveinJapan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. Sorry to say, I had to unrecommend this one. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:58 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. "kudos to Goldman for making some profits" - they steal them, what don't you get? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. There is a reason Dillenger was popular in the 30s |
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DaveinJapan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. I would never use "unrec" without explaining myself (seems only civil, no?). |
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willing dwarf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:04 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I don't think Allentown Jake was ranting |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Defenders of the system |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. They were given $10 billion dollars to invest in businesses |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
30. For profit companies have the right to pursue profits within the law, |
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gtar100 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
34. Wow. Love that dog-eat-dog world, don't you. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Its the FISA mentality |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
12. tarp was NOT built on the principal of getting capital moving again |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. It's not a bet, they know exactly what has already happened. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:18 AM Response to Original message |
14. K&R |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
15. We experienced something strange too. |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
16. They see the writing on the wall. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
18. So companies are always supposed to blindly believe a country is going to do well economically |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:08 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. They lobbied for the legislation |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. We had to blindly shove money up the banks' asses, so it's only fair. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. The banks are paying that money back and if the Tres. department hadn't changed the rules they |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:05 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Fuck that. They should have been nationalized. And the execs sent to be worked to death in Alaska |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. By the way, they were the ones who ended up with the money that AIG was given... |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. So many apologist these days |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:21 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. I'm sure they would have |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. If you qualify for one go get one. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. The banks had a worst balance sheet than I do |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
19. TARP was a JOKE! |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
20. recommended for important content well presented |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
22. I think it is a regional thing. Where I live, a refinancing boom is occuring |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Regional or National Banks? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:44 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. He's mostly working with regional banks |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. They have to make their money the old fashioned way |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
33. I wonder if it in part due to the fact that here in western PA, we didn't see |
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