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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (10618)	10/26/2006 9:41:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219571

TJ, gentle? <with passage of gentle time, all is is, exactly, but maurice fails to understand same, even as he is unwilling to vacate NZ that hums> is isisis as I say grey ooze. Children shot and bodies barely cold except that they were already cold while trying to escape ... yes, gentle... need a bit more time ... for the vicious Chinese soldiers to escape and prepare for more over Taiwan... which will be gentle iss..sissisisisis..more time...yes...you are right and kind and isisisisisi more time travel all the same don't worry be happy. Ignore the logic, deny the maths, turn away from the cruelty and megalomania, and wait for them to come for you. Be a good mindless clone. Gentle time is is. Amuse yourself. You should leave your house, your wife should be shot if she escapes, the burglars and murderers should acquire title to same with passage of gentle time, as is is. All will then be well with passage of gentle time travel clutching little g-ld talisman until all is is. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (10618)	10/26/2006 10:00:14 AM
From: foundation	Respond to of 219571

From Beyond the Grave ---------- Greenspan says U.S. economy escaping housing woes WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Thursday the U.S. economy was pulling away from the shoals of a sharp housing-sector downturn and that the outlook for growth was "reasonably good." "Most of the negatives in housing are probably behind us," Greenspan said at a conference sponsored by the Commercial Finance Association "The fourth quarter should be reasonably good, certainly better than the third quarter." The government reports on third-quarter economic growth on Friday. After shooting ahead at a 5.6 percent annual clip at the start of the year, the economy advanced only 2.6 percent in the second quarter as home building took a dive. Economists polled by Reuters expect the government report on third-quarter gross domestic product to show growth slowing further to a 2.2 percent pace. However, many analysts think growth may revive in the current quarter as lower energy prices buoy consumers. ---------- It's The Night of the Living Dead on the Speaker's Circuit. LOL!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (10618)	10/26/2006 11:09:17 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219571

Why long MSFT? Could that position close after this evening's earnings? You did say LTBH though on your post?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (10618)	10/26/2006 12:11:45 PM
From: foundation	Respond to of 219571

Fiddle About ---------- TREASURY'S PAULSON PLAYS WITH THE PLUNGE PROTECTORS By JOHN CRUDELE October 26, 2006 -- PAY attention! nypost.com Someone - and I don't know who - wants us all to know that since July Henry Paulson, the new secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has spent a lot of time on a little known Washington operation called the President's Working Group on Financial Markets. That was the major message in a prominent piece this past Monday in The Wall Street Journal. The big mystery is why do these people want us to know this? And why now? I wrote about the Working Group on Financial Markets back in June when Paulson left Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs to accept the top job at Treasury. As I documented in a series of half a dozen columns, the mysterious Working Group had been formed in 1988 by an executive order signed by President Reagan and was manned by the heads of various stock exchanges and top government officials in charge of those markets. The group was supposed to - ya' know - solve financial problems, although the scope of its authority and its powers were never clearly defined. The group soon became known as the Plunge Protection Team, and for those who were following its stealthy pursuits, the Working Group seemed to be using a blueprint set down by a former Federal Reserve official named Robert Heller. Soon after Heller had left his government job in 1989 he gave a widely disbursed speech proposing that the Fed be given authority to rig the stock market in case of emergencies. The Plunge Protection Team - a. k. a. Working Group - probably remained mostly dormant during the good years. But there were sneaking suspicions that it came out of its shell a couple of times, especially after 9/11. So it's interesting that now - seemingly out of the blue and far removed from any obvious crisis - Paulson is activating the Plunge Protection Team and someone wants us to know about it. The Journal's Monday piece started: "With just two years to make his mark, new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is focusing much of his attention on making American financial markets more competitive . . . "Since taking the reins in July, the Wall Street veteran has reinvigorated the President's Working Group on Financial markets, which had languished." The article went on to say that before Paulson's arrival, the group met every few months, and sometimes only once a quarter. Now Paulson is insisting that it meet every six weeks. Among other things, Paulson and the Plunge Protection gang discuss the problems that might occur with hedge funds and derivatives, plus the "government's ability to respond to a financial crisis," according to a source quoted by the paper. Since the Federal Reserve is the group that would lower interest rates in an emergency, the Plunge Protectors would probably be the ones who'd fix the problem. In other words, they'd throw money at it. Stocks have been moving steadily upward since July, when Paulson took over the Plunge Protection Team (and the Treasury). And one of the reasons could be that - as I mentioned back then - there is less risk in stocks if the government is providing a safety net. Less risk, that is, until something bad happens. ---------- <g>