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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: JDN who wrote (326953)12/9/2002 5:59:45 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
RE: $3,000,000,000,000

How on earth is this mess collateralized? The assets are off accounts too?? The interest costs? Maybe they keep those expenses outside of the books too?

Isn't time to really start shoveling the dirt, "right" scams, corruption, coverups and criminality and deception out into public view where it belongs?

SEC Proposes Making Companies Disclose Off-Books Debt (Update1)
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed that U.S. companies be required to disclose an estimated $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt, a reaction to Enron Corp.'s collapse.

Bloomberg news, Oct 30 2002

quote.bloomberg.com/newsarchive/?sidenav=front



To: JDN who wrote (326953)12/9/2002 10:05:30 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
it WASNT THE SEX that got him in trouble,
No, it was the fact that he actually set policy to help the general public instead of the old Reagan aristocrats. They had to get their estate tax shelters finished before they died off.

TP