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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (185943)	2/23/2009 1:40:52 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

Whole different ball game now, as you well know. I don't see a lot of technical support either, anybodys guess.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (185943)	2/23/2009 2:42:10 PM
From: Bank Holding Company	Respond to of 306849

> DOW at 6,437 << sounds good to me...

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (185943)	2/23/2009 6:35:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 306849

The financial crisis will be harder to end than the Great Depression and may force banks to be nationalized, “Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb said in a Bloomberg Television interview. Rare and unforeseen events are known as “black swans” after Taleb’s 2007 book, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.” The financial crisis isn’t one, he said. “The black swan for me would be for us to emerge out of this unscathed and return to normalcy,” Taleb said. Compared with the Great Depression, this crisis is “very different, and it requires much more drastic action.” From Bloomberg: February 23, 2009