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 Topic: Alabama County Misses Bond Payment |
benzoil
Replies: 8
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 Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:44 pm Subject: Re: Alabama County Misses Bond Payment |
*shrug* Who'd buy it? The market is frozen and even if it wasn't, Jeff county would have to offer insane interest to get people to take it.
Since when did reality become a necessary componen ... |
| Topic: Alabama County Misses Bond Payment |
benzoil
Replies: 8
Views: 575
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:17 pm Subject: Re: Alabama County Misses Bond Payment |
Who wants to bet that they try to shore up more money by passing another bond initiative?
*shrug* Who'd buy it?  The market is frozen and even if it wasn't, Jeff county would have to offer insa ... |
| Topic: Rosh Hashanah holiday postpones work on the Bailout |
benzoil
Replies: 32
Views: 1515
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:21 am Subject: Re: Rosh Hashanah holiday postpones work on the Bailout |
Actually, if you search Rosh Hashanah Congress on Google News- it's out there and everyone is talking about it.
That stuff wasn't out there when I searched the first time. Now its everywhere - and ... |
| Topic: Rosh Hashanah holiday postpones work on the Bailout |
benzoil
Replies: 32
Views: 1515
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:41 pm Subject: Re: Rosh Hashanah holiday postpones work on the Bailout |
| A quick Google search shows this thread as the number one result on "Congress Rosh Has break". The only other piece I could find was one from last week on Salon.com saying that Congress was planning t ... |
| Topic: National City Bank shares drops 52% -is this next ? |
benzoil
Replies: 6
Views: 553
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:51 pm Subject: Re: National City Bank shares drops 52% -is this next ? |
Check out Wachovia too!
Don't you mean "Wachovia: A wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup" ?  |
| Topic: National City Bank shares drops 52% -is this next ? |
benzoil
Replies: 6
Views: 553
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:37 pm Subject: Re: National City Bank shares drops 52% -is this next ? |
[url=http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/29/news/national.city_deposits.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008092915]Fortune mag thinks not
The article states that they have a much better capital ratio than W ... |
| Topic: THE Fortis Thread (merged) ( was Fortis chairman predicts |
benzoil
Replies: 72
Views: 4717
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:18 am Subject: Re: Fortis bank in the BeNeLux in trouble |
| Interesting. They own ABN Ambro, who owns LaSalle Bank - a large regional bank in the US Midwest. I wonder how a parent bank's woes affect its subsidiaries...ABN AMRO was bought by a consortium of ban ... |
| Topic: THE Fortis Thread (merged) ( was Fortis chairman predicts |
benzoil
Replies: 72
Views: 4717
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:39 am Subject: Re: Fortis bank in the BeNeLux in trouble |
Interesting. They own ABN Ambro, who owns LaSalle Bank - a large regional bank in the US Midwest. I wonder how a parent bank's woes affect its subsidiaries...
I'm guessing now that the US bailout w ... |
| Topic: Chinese Banks Told To Halt Lending To US Banks |
benzoil
Replies: 19
Views: 1193
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:18 am Subject: Re: Chinese Banks Told To Halt Lending To US Banks |
 The Chinese have a big problem here. All the stuff we were going to buy from them for Christmas is already in the container on the ship.
Actually, most of it is already here. Still, most Chinese ... |
| Topic: How to tell when peak oil has happened |
benzoil
Replies: 8
Views: 566
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:52 pm Subject: Re: How to tell when peak oil has happened |
TV ads during football games feature 0% financing on home wind turbines instead of Chevys.
Late night infomercials change from real estate scams (finally!) and dubious home cleaning products to dub ... |
| Topic: US Stock Market In Apparent Death Spiral |
benzoil
Replies: 97
Views: 5444
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:15 pm Subject: Re: Stocks Death Spiral in last hour of trading |
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
its not to late to start again 
No need. I'll just make some popcorn and see what the idiots on the business channels have to say ... |
| Topic: US Stock Market In Apparent Death Spiral |
benzoil
Replies: 97
Views: 5444
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:08 pm Subject: Re: Stocks Death Spiral in last hour of trading |
Gonna be below 10600 before the day is over.
10609 and change. Ouch.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. |
| Topic: US Stock Market In Apparent Death Spiral |
benzoil
Replies: 97
Views: 5444
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:05 pm Subject: Re: Stocks Death Spiral in last hour of trading |
After the initial drop this morning, the DJI has been relatively stable throughout the day. Who expects another large drop in the last hour of trading today?
I read this just after I go ... |
| Topic: Officials order Ike-scarred residents to leave |
benzoil
Replies: 10
Views: 539
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:37 am Subject: Re: Officials order Ike-scarred residents to leave |
Imagine what it must have been like in 1900 with no warning.
I just finished reading "Isaac's Storm" about the 1906 hurricane. It was nasty. 6000 dead. |
| Topic: Officials order Ike-scarred residents to leave |
benzoil
Replies: 10
Views: 539
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:00 am Subject: Re: Officials order Ike-scarred residents to leave |
| They want people out of there because some of them are requiring assistance, which costs money. Or they just don't like citizens in the middle of them getting to play "big government"; they tend to b ... |
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