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| 85976 | Gracie says: <b>options offer little or no protection because counterpart | ballsschweaty | 8/17/2007 |
| 85975 | He's in the Guiness Book of World Records, you know... world's largest e | benwood | 8/17/2007 |
| 85974 | It's sickening watching Cramer take credit for it. | Jim McMannis | 8/17/2007 |
| 85973 | Dow Jumps 233 on Surprise Rate Cut By MADLEN READ,AP Posted: 2007-08-17 17:17:2 | Mick Mørmøny | 8/17/2007 |
| 85972 | When you start to investigate how the options market controls for counter-party | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85971 | <i>then WRITE Congress and tell them </i> Or not! Banking is one o | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85970 | <i read that earlier...doesn't exactly inspire confidence, does it?> | BWAC | 8/17/2007 |
| 85969 | [graphic] Jun. 09, 2007 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Warming' | Broken_Clock | 8/17/2007 |
| 85968 | That's just somebody w/ a bunch of earth moving equipment that wants to dig | 10K a day | 8/17/2007 |
| 85967 | Edward Lawrence, Reporter Clock is Ticking on Las Vegas' Water Supply The n | Broken_Clock | 8/17/2007 |
| 85966 | i read that earlier...doesn't exactly inspire confidence, does it? | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85965 | Message 23803693 | nextrade! | 8/17/2007 |
| 85964 | Be good children, and same goes for your pen pals overseas Any hint of negativit | Smiling Bob | 8/17/2007 |
| 85963 | I dunno, but he explained it had something to do with not mixing up account numb | Tradelite | 8/17/2007 |
| 85962 | then WRITE Congress and tell them to STOP ALLOWING MERGERS that only benefit the | Skywatcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85961 | It's a tenth amendment thing. Each state has their own banking laws so no na | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85960 | those bushkies that have had all the blessings of their great funds with maniaca | Skywatcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85959 | but EVERYTHING to do with the BIG BANKS and HEDGIES | Skywatcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85958 | time.com Blowing up the Lab on Wall Street Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 By RICHARD B | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85957 | One interesting thing I learned from the BAC manager is that not all accounts fr | Tradelite | 8/17/2007 |
| 85956 | So what did Bush give you for that apartment you were selling back in 2005? | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85955 | <i>Couldn't have taken a check as large as the one I had to an ATM any | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85954 | Bush lovers deny he has anything to do with the housing market | Maurice H. Norcott | 8/17/2007 |
| 85953 | My opinion of that bank and its staffing level went way down. I wasn't ther | Tradelite | 8/17/2007 |
| 85952 | My BoA branch always has long lines on Friday afternoons. They never have enough | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85951 | Yeah, pretty lousy rally. I am unconvinced that we have even seen a short term | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85950 | <i>When the president of a significant mortgage company is scared to leave | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85949 | Gonna be real trouble if Dean is a CAT 5 headed towards Galveston.. | John Vosilla | 8/17/2007 |
| 85948 | When the president of a significant mortgage company is scared to leave his mone | Travis_Bickle | 8/17/2007 |
| 85947 | I don't daytrade (usually) but if I did, I'd be thinking we're in fo | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85946 | 'If Joe Average Can't Pay his Mortgage, We're all Screwed' spie | Les H | 8/17/2007 |
| 85945 | THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN A rush to pull out cash Worried about the stability of mor | Skywatcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85944 | I might have witnessed a minor version of a bank run yesterday afternoon. Went | Tradelite | 8/17/2007 |
| 85943 | Fed Rate Cuts Loom, But No Respite ftalphaville.ft.com I wouldn't be surpr | Les H | 8/17/2007 |
| 85942 | Pretty ho-hum day from where I am sitting (cash). Did the Fed do something today | damainman | 8/17/2007 |
| 85941 | hmmm...my Fed phone didn't ring. must be on the bad list, again. -g- | marcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85940 | [graphic] bigpicture.typepad.com | Travis_Bickle | 8/17/2007 |
| 85939 | And yet many still think Japan 1990's or Herbert Hoover's depression is | John Vosilla | 8/17/2007 |
| 85938 | Plunge Protection Team Convened Today to Endorse Fed Action The participants on | Les H | 8/17/2007 |
| 85937 | Chinese solar as well as gold shares have gotten blasted of late.. Happy to have | John Vosilla | 8/17/2007 |
| 85936 | I can imagine the panic on some of these RE reality TV show when the 'stars& | John Vosilla | 8/17/2007 |
| 85935 | Pearlstein having to defend The Fed Response a lot in this column... washington | Les H | 8/17/2007 |
| 85934 | Being a "discount" broker means never having to say yer sorry!<G> | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85933 | >>and i thought it was a technical/programmed bounce off 1360.<< It | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85932 | LOL, I'm sure he pines for the old boring days. I have a friend who is an | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85931 | <i>The commercial paper market locking up was a bit more sporting than eve | GraceZ | 8/17/2007 |
| 85930 | Are they still using ColdFusion 2.0? -g- | 10K a day | 8/17/2007 |
| 85929 | We have a high net worth household, and we haven't heard crap. It's anno | Live2Sail | 8/17/2007 |
| 85928 | I have no respect for a company whose main purpose is to provide access to tradi | GST | 8/17/2007 |
| 85927 | Message 23803149 5000..... First Magnus announces layoffs, halts new loan activ | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85926 | I could get in on the PC by hitting refesh when you are at the dead page where i | Travis_Bickle | 8/17/2007 |
| 85925 | "someone was tipped off that the Fed would do an intermeeting cut" oh | marcher | 8/17/2007 |
| 85924 | "What do you expect to get hit hard besides housing related?" Don' | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85923 | i cannot get in on my pc but my laptop gets me right in | Pogeu Mahone | 8/17/2007 |
| 85922 | <Hoping for a big rally in the last hour, and a short squeeze. Have a lot of | BWAC | 8/17/2007 |
| 85921 | <The commercial paper market locking up was a bit more sporting than even I w | BWAC | 8/17/2007 |
| 85920 | I agree - an inter-meeting rate cut is off the table now. Hoping for a big rall | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85919 | Fair enough. I think the key will be how the non-housing related credit markets | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85918 | <i>The commercial paper market locking up was a bit more sporting than eve | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85917 | Yes, they did "cut", but I don't think the discount rate was what | CalculatedRisk | 8/17/2007 |
| 85916 | LOL, we'll see.... They did "cut" the discount rate, no?<G> | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85915 | No cut yet ... this is just a change in the discount rate. I'll still take | CalculatedRisk | 8/17/2007 |
| 85914 | Go use your laptop. My PC will not let me in, i get the same masage you do, my | Pogeu Mahone | 8/17/2007 |
| 85913 | Minos,re:"any ideas". Go with any company dealing with war, military, | John Chen | 8/17/2007 |
| 85912 | CNBC guest awhile ago was talking about a big rally in the last hour due to opti | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85911 | Hate to say I told ya so, but.....<G> Message 23800121 | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85910 | I'm thinking this scenario (intermeeting cut) most closely parallels 01/03/0 | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85909 | Jim McMannis,re:"No kidding". FED has unknowingly/knowingly confessed | John Chen | 8/17/2007 |
| 85908 | CBG...is it company specific? Have not seen the article but have been watching i | Minos | 8/17/2007 |
| 85907 | don't know ......our own calculated risk has an interesting piece on that to | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85906 | Yesterday was record NYSE composite volume of 6.9 billion shares, but I don' | Sr K | 8/17/2007 |
| 85905 | <<i suppose a huge rate cut would bail out the ARM resets, i don't kno | Sr K | 8/17/2007 |
| 85904 | Did they have exposure to mortgage backed securities ? LOL <I>what the he | Qualified Opinion | 8/17/2007 |
| 85903 | lol | Jim McMannis | 8/17/2007 |
| 85902 | there isn't any excuse for the online trading sites to be down like this- we | Lizzie Tudor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85901 | CBG trading down in today's market is telling, imo | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85900 | By lowering the discount rate, the rate member banks can get money from the FED, | Jim McMannis | 8/17/2007 |
| 85899 | <i>but it won't hold and they can cut to zero, like BOJ, and get nowhe | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85898 | Trust me, it's permanently etched in my mind.....<NG> | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85897 | There is a chart of Katrina on BDBBR | Broken_Clock | 8/17/2007 |
| 85896 | Katrina tracked north of that, it actually hit Key West as a Cat 1 I believe. As | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85895 | >>If Hurricane Dean does follow that path, wouldn't it miss most of th | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/17/2007 |
| 85894 | steve lieseman is saying right now that fed acted because the *good* credit need | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85893 | I think this mornings action simply reduced the odds of a dramatic stock market | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85892 | RE:"This is unfair to the general public, as usual. Yeap, the treasury is b | Jim McMannis | 8/17/2007 |
| 85891 | The perception that banks are unstable is what could cause the run. Joe Shmoe kn | Smiling Bob | 8/17/2007 |
| 85890 | CBG is my biggest short - thank you Jim Grant for that gift. He timed that one p | zebra4o1 | 8/17/2007 |
| 85889 | I also shorted phm, but had to add tol as another short position. earnings are s | jpk1 | 8/17/2007 |
| 85888 | the fed is rightly concerned about the solvency and <i>confidence</i> | MulhollandDrive | 8/17/2007 |
| 85887 | <i>I could not access Schwab yesterday -- what the hell is going on there? | Live2Sail | 8/17/2007 |
| 85886 | <i>Countrywide may be just the first. The Fed knows that. </i> I th | Live2Sail | 8/17/2007 |
| 85885 | Couldn't take it any more, had to short something. Short PHM and long GG an | Travis_Bickle | 8/17/2007 |
| 85884 | I hope you are right--not because I want the rigs to get hit, but because a larg | Tommaso | 8/17/2007 |
| 85883 | Look at the volatility today in CBG. | Sr K | 8/17/2007 |
| 85882 | The problem is that hurricanes tend to curl to the north once they are in the GO | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85881 | I could not access Schwab yesterday -- what the hell is going on there? | GST | 8/17/2007 |
| 85880 | If Hurricane Dean does follow that path, wouldn't it miss most of the platfo | Tommaso | 8/17/2007 |
| 85879 | What he did had NOTHING to do with the stock markets. His action only effected | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
| 85878 | Damn!!! | Smiling Bob | 8/17/2007 |
| 85877 | Thanks to all for the ideas. Decided to play with GS, CFC, and BSC for a bit. | Think4Yourself | 8/17/2007 |
