Comments on: Bailout or Bust

By: Futures Trader

Futures Trader — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:56:42 +0000

America this is just the begging of the things to come. 2 Years ago I started liquidating. Selling my last shares Nov.2007. Telling everyone when the sh-t hits you will not have a chance to get out. As the market went even higher I was told I was a fool. First Auction Rates Securities stopped, Now the Stock Market, Soon US Bond and the dollar. It take no genuss, PHD or even a college education to know the simple math . Trillions of dollars nothing of value. Like Monopoly Money. All will lose. You will not believe the truth for that is what is written. But one must try for that is what God wants us to do.

By: Archangel

Archangel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:09:04 +0000

Poor sinner asks; How much water must be poured in a cup full of leaks to fill the cup ? A; one must keep adding More and more to keep the cup from going completely empty. What must be done to keep the cup full without adding more and more? A;Fix the cup. Bail out has not a word or a cent of how to fix the problem. Liquid leaks of another $850B. All the education PHDs and BS. You still think the world is flat, Well keep pouring money in. The leaks will stop them self. We should of just added more water to Katrina the levies would of fixed them self. Dumb and Dumber

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:16:24 +0000

Here’s some good info on LIBOR:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n18/mack01_.html

There’s a little controversy over it:

“Much of the most vocal criticism of Libor has come from the US, and has focused on dollar Libor – especially three-month dollar Libor, the rate used more than any other in the swaps market. Some seem unhappy that the benchmark dollar interest rates are set in London just after 6 a.m. New York time, when traders are only starting to arrive at their desks, and that the US dollar Libor panel contains only three recognisably ‘American’ banks. The British Bankers’ Association – membership of which is open to any bank operating in the UK, wherever it is domiciled – counters by pointing out that all the banks on the panel are global institutions, some with a major presence on the ground in the US, and that collectively they are responsible for most London interbank dollar lending and borrowing.”

But it does seem as objective a measure as we’re going to get in the short term.