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To: carranza2 who wrote (47182)	3/5/2009 11:45:20 PM
From: SG	Respond to of 219578

Don't go easy on us, tell us the bad stuff, Mr. Denninger. SG

To: carranza2 who wrote (47182)	3/6/2009 12:06:22 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219578

20 years ago US and Europe were hedging against disaster. All measures were to protect the status quo. Guys were getting old and want the economy to carry them to retirement. Did not forced change that would undermine their own future. They had a vested interest in the outcome and the outcome would not had favored them. They prodded along and created today's mayhem. They are now going to be punished along with the younger generations that trailed them and did not oppose them. Youth made the mistake of thinking they were too clever to be slaughtered. OECD countries farmed out the burden of hard work and discipline to Asia and expected that they would struggle to keep them having their living standards intact. The Asians were just happy to do that and the world over said that exporting the way out of poverty was good. Now we have exporters in the dumps. Importers moneyless.

To: carranza2 who wrote (47182)	3/6/2009 8:18:38 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219578

just received the following offer by way of reuters, an invite to a ball, and i am sure it was addressed to me by mistake or miscalculation U.S. to invite wealthy to invest in bailout: report Fri Mar 6, 2009 2:23am EST reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to invite wealthy investors to invest in the bailout of the crippled financial system, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The investors would be invited to buy up recently issued, highly rated securities that finance consumer lending -- without the risk of massive losses, the report said. The idea is to entice the investors to put their huge cash piles to work to stimulate the financial system, the Post said. The program, which could involve the government lending nearly $1 trillion to these investors, exceeds the size of every other federal effort to address the financial crisis so far, the newspaper said. The initiative adopts an approach that could be the model for future federal efforts to aid the credit markets, sources familiar with government planning were quoted as saying.