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To: Real Man who wrote (399288)	1/9/2010 3:12:57 PM
From: MythMan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

meaningless...the market is fixed and SAFE.

To: Real Man who wrote (399288)	1/9/2010 4:48:09 PM
From: NucTrader	Respond to of 436258

The banks ARE lending -just not to Main Street. Main Street isn't interested in their rapacious credit cards any more, it seems. But all is well in the lending department, and I quote to you from a front page article of todays WSJ, Money and Investing Section: "Banks are boosting their lending to hedge funds and private-equity firms to levels unseen since before the financial crisis, raising their risk levels and adding fuel to the buying power of key players across the stock, debt, and buyout markets" Specific players mentioned included C, BOA, JPM nad MS. GS was not mentioned, strangely. So all is well, because if they blow up again, worse than before, they'll just be bailed out again, donchaknow?