Posted on 02/16/2009 6:18:24 PM PST by An Old Man
I truly hope the UAW completely self-destructs
Gee, what is that song they sang to Bush on Inaguration Day?
Sheudenfraude?
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye......
After GM fails, will Detroit even notice?
Geithner has no clue what he is doing with the financial meltdown. So, Soetoro is going to give him the auto industry to solve, too? I can’t wait for his press conference to announce his plan, “We need $100 billion for the auto companies, but we haven’t worked out any specifics for this plan yet...we want to make sure we get it right.”
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8:17 CT
I do not know what is going on here, and I don't think I want to.
Someone, apparently someone in Asia, wants dollars. A LOT of dollars. There is a forced-liquidation event underway that is massive, it is against all asset classes and it is spreading.
It originated at approximately 7:15 CT this evening and originated out of Asia somewhere. All of the primary currency crosses got hit at once - Euro, Pound, Yen - all weakened dramatically against the dollar and it is still going on. The Asian stock markets got walloped at the same time in coordinated waves of forced selling.
At the same time the US futures markets got nailed as well, down some six handles on the /ES in a near-vertical drop. While this sounds "not that big" to move these markets in a coordinated fashion like this is a trillion-dollar enterprise - this is not some small company that went bankrupt, or even a large company.
There is no news coverage at the present time identifying the source of this but it is not small and contrary to some reports it is not "automatic selling"; this is forced liquidation.
Folks, if this translates into Eastern Europe where there are severe instabilities already brewing literally everything in the financial world could come apart "all at once."
The worse news is that if this happens Bernanke will have killed us (in the US) by extending those swap lines all over the planet during the last six months. These will become utterly uncollectable and they are massive, in the many hundreds of billions of dollars.
To those who are reading this, I hope if you're in the markets you are prepared for extreme levels of violence. You must expect that the authorities will try to arrest the destruction if they are able, but you must also be prepared for the possibility that we have reached a "critical mass" point beyond which "duck and cover" is the only winning strategy.
Unfortunately.
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I find it rather ironic that osamaobama ridiculed and attacked McCain for wanting to set up a committe to draft and administer TARP-now he’s proposing the same thing for the auto industry.
poo in a ziplock
What exactly does that mean?
Who would be dumb enough to buy the product? I tell you this, if a government committee ran the toilet paper business, I would never shake hands with anyone again!
I don’t know! Lets find out.
Currency market. Forex.
Henry Ford is thanking God that Ford backed out of the govmt bailout.
Ford may come out as the only American car manufacturer in about 3 years.
What do you suppose we should expect?
Well, he says he doesn’t know, but it sounds like Somebody that owns a lot of debt is calling in the markers and forcing fire sales to other entities to raise money. He also says there’s no coverage of it, just a lot of forced liquidation, which means whoever’s letting the assets go is doing it at a fire sale price. Freepaholic, is that how you read it?
I have no idea. I just lurk on Denningers' forums. I'm not a finance guy.
Here's the current forum thread on his latest update:
http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=81089
Hysteria or Cassandra, it’s a fascinating read.
The same gov't that will be unable to compete will make sure you have no other options but to buy their product at their price. The hand writing is on the wall
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