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To: Hydroshock; Moonman62; ex-Texan

For his company at least he maybe right.


2 posted on 08/25/2007 6:00:13 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: Hydroshock

I suppose the bankrupcy lawyers see a giant boom ahead.


3 posted on 08/25/2007 6:02:44 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Hydroshock

This guy loses his butt giving someone elses money away and that is supposed to reflect on the whole economy?

Sorry - I’m not biting


5 posted on 08/25/2007 6:03:29 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: Hydroshock
This dude has been dumping $Millions of his personal investments in Countrywide for quite sometime!

See:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=CFC

33 posted on 08/25/2007 7:39:23 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Hydroshock

“For his company at least he maybe right.” and for him too!


34 posted on 08/25/2007 8:01:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Hydroshock
After months of adamant official denial of any potential threat of the subprime mortgage meltdown spreading to the global financial system, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) on Friday, August 17, a mere 10 days after declaring market fundamentals as strong and inflation as its main concern, took radical steps to try to halt financial market contagion worldwide that had become undeniable. * * *

Politicians are talking about taking measures to help households suffering from the subprime crisis to prevent as many as 3 million largely low-income households from losing their homes.

However, that will not solve the crisis in the financial markets. In fact it may add to it. But with the central banks pumping in money to help banks from failing, while families are evicted from their homes is very bad politics in a election year.

The central banks are giving financial institutions whose credit rating and cashflow are not much better than family with subprime mortgages, free credit cards with a subsidised interest rate and no spending limit for as long as needed, while these very same institutions are foreclosing on the homes of their customers. This crisis will likely build to a crescendo just before the November presidential election. Its going to be a very interesting election. * * * Source Here

Free trader cheerleaders and proponents of 'buy now, buy today!' just woke up. At least a few have awakened. Easy credit is a thing of the past. But naysayers still proclaim, 'No big deal. Nothing to see here. Time to move on.' Yeah, right.

Please check out my previous posts or my FR Page. I'm going to be adding some intriguing information there from time to time.

37 posted on 08/25/2007 9:08:02 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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To: Hydroshock

He’s dumping his stock options like they were the ebola virus... CW is done, and he knows it. He’s talking one thing in public and doing another behind closed doors.

Frankly I’m amazed the press is ignoring his cashing out, its publicly avaialable data.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=CFC


42 posted on 08/25/2007 10:53:21 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Hydroshock

He’s dumping his stock options like they were the ebola virus... CW is done, and he knows it. He’s talking one thing in public and doing another behind closed doors.

Frankly I’m amazed the press is ignoring his cashing out, its publicly avaialable data.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=CFC


43 posted on 08/25/2007 10:53:25 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Hydroshock; Calpernia; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Eastbound; M. Espinola; stephenjohnbanker; ...
October 19, 1987 was known as “Black Monday”

Why ? Because on that day the stock markets crashed. In a single day stock market lost 22% of its value. In one day. Real estate is not like that. The housing market train wreck of the late 1980's took several years to bottom out. It began, for a few regions in the U.S. about 1985. By 1992, the crash was still going on. It continued for another five years in some regions of the U.S.

That is a period of at least 12 years. We are about to go through it all over again.

From Fortune / CNN back in 1992:

Excerpt (my paragraphing)

NOT MANY PEOPLE realize just how stunningly big the commercial real estate debacle really is or how savagely it will continue to sweep through the U.S. economy.

For a frame of reference, imagine that the stock market -- now worth around $3.8 trillion -- was to fall in value by 30%, a loss of about $1.1 trillion. Assume also that many of the market's most visible and active participants were on, say, 80% margin.

And finally, consider that the economics of the market after the fall suggested strongly that values would stay depressed for years.

Would these facts grab your attention?

Substitute ''commercial real estate'' for ''stock market,'' deflate the dollar figures by just a bit, and you've got the gist of today's drama.

There is nothing hypothetical about it. By one estimate the total value of all U.S. commercial real estate was around $3.5 trillion in 1989.

It is now perhaps 30% less. Just a diminution of a trifling $1 trillion or so, about twice what the U.S. stock market gave up on October 19, 1987, in the crash heard around the world. * * *

Does that sound familiar to anyone ?

This time it may be even worse.

136 mortgage lenders have failed since late in 2006.

That did not happen back back in 1985 or 1987 or 1992 or 1995.

Californians know it even though the MSM will not report the truth. Already, prices for houses are down between 15% - 25% all across the state. Foreclosed houses are getting bids at 50% of value. Many empty houses sold at auction are not getting any bids. None. Nada. Nichts. Zilch.

But the Russian Mob has an active scam going. They tell their organized crime associates to move into vacant houses and squat. The squatters are filing bogus homestead papers. They sabotage the foreclosure. Demand ransom to move out.

Everybody has a new scam going these days. Organized crime. The local police are helpless. The fibbies dither and delay. This crisis was planned and engineered by the experts. 'Nuff said.

Time to wake up and smell the coffee. History is repeating itself. Again.

60 posted on 08/25/2007 12:06:04 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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