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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Jumper who wrote (14561)3/3/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: Tommaso  Respond to of 94695
 
I should have waited for your second post.

It's a lot worse than I thought.

How can we make money on this? Short bank stocks?

This is like the oil-patch loans that sank Continental Illinois.



To: Jumper who wrote (14561)3/3/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 94695
 
<< I was visiting a friend the other day and his girlfriend has 18 cards. She has no steady job other than following around his rock band and has been able to establish her line of credit for over 150,000 for less than 5%. >>

Tell me you're kidding. At least tell me this is seriously atypical.
Otherwise, I'm going to get on a boat to Honduras to start acclimatizing myself to living in a banana republic.