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To: Ilaine who wrote (31192)	3/17/2008 3:50:18 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217589

I fully expected today to be one of those days upon which the hinges of history turn. Me too. But the dynamics are still there, mostly unchanged. Perhaps we are seeing the hinges open (or close) very slowly.

To: Ilaine who wrote (31192)	3/23/2008 11:26:16 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217589

Hello CB Ilaine, I was thinking out loud worldmarket.blogspot.com and I now take the time to respond to your kind note, and hopefully introduce levity and enhance mirth at a moment of actually still not very dire happenings. <<Anyway, I fully admit that my opinions about the future aren't worth very much.>> ... To which I must respond per my best effort and without hedge, that yes, and, for that matter, that none of our opinions are worth very much, because what is destined to happen will. However, actions that follow on opinions may have positive or negative values assigned to them. I am, at the mo, still up for the horrible year to the sorry date. I give thanks to cohort of pen pals. <<I fully expected today to be one of those days upon which the hinges of history turn>> As you suspected in universal instance about your opinions regarding the future, but perhaps forgot to discount this particular prediction, I figure the main event is still ahead of us, and what happened in the past week is actually of no particular consequence or even note, relative to what must still deliciously be. <<It may well be but not for the observation of peasants like me. It's a lovely early spring day, blue sky, warm air, if there is slaughter behind the scenes and blood pouring into the ditches of the abattoirs I can't see it>> You are either not applying yourself or not at all looking. The weather in Hong Kong is good as well, and we did our Easter Egg hunt and such yesterday, together with brunch time BBQ and followed by Spanish tapas dinner at the neighborhood oceanside food hangout farm1.static.flickr.com blood pouring into street ditches and screams going silent? that is for the main course still several drinks and tapas away; so, chill. I suspect that weather during October of 1929 was pretty and fine as well, even as conditions went red spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk <<A good day to eat corned beef and cabbage and drink Irish whiskey. And the world continues on as it ever has>> Every day is a good day to do as you suggested, and coincidentally, the world continues afterwards each and every day. Chugs, TJ

To: Ilaine who wrote (31192)	3/24/2008 3:10:39 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217589

hello cb ilaine, here i was, responding to your note Message 24433888 , and going on about bsc worldmarket.blogspot.com "I am told that something bad happened to Bear Stearns, R.I.P., and the carcass got taken in and disposed of by JPM, financed and underwritten by JPM's controlled equity subsidiary that is whimsically named the Federal Reserve (a good read amazon.com ), tolerated by all including the ex-small-town mayors, dallying governors, and know-not-very much schoold teachers of Capitol Hill, and all further losses from the shady transaction will be socialized for the account of one Joe6Pack, for his own good. No, I will not whisper "Crony Capitalism" and "Centrally Planned Business" and "American Values"; there will be plenty of delicious time for that later, as Bear Stearns is just one of many, just an early and small incident – a hors d'oeuvre to be followed by an extended feeding session" ... and there went off hussman hussmanfunds.com , going on and on about the injustice of it all Rick Santelli of CNBC is exactly right. If this is how the U.S. government is going to operate in a democratic, free-market society, “we might as well put a hammer and sickle on the flag.” ...The Fed did not act to save a bank, but to enrich one. So, perhaps bcs is in play again, and definitively fail ... as counterparty to jpm, requiring the mother of all cleanups of the derivative fallouts. let's watch and learn ... and, oh, please, pass the drinks. chugs, tj