Comments on: Place Your Bets on Which Sovereign Nation Will Fall First

By: Richard Estes

Richard Estes — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:34:29 +0000

Europe, old and new, is in big trouble. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Europe on brink of currency crisis meltdown.

By: ThomasD

ThomasD — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:51:17 +0000

This is beyond Liar’s Poker.

When I play Liar’s Poker I can at least see that the other guy is actually holding a dollar bill.

By: BertDilbert

BertDilbert — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:07:37 +0000

Naked shorting

If shorting put a company out of business, they did not have much of a business to begin with. Companies that don’t make money deserve to die, just like banks that do stupid things. Unfortunately, the evil banks will continue on as though nothing happened. They should have thought about that before making stupid loans. People short companies that have bad numbers, just like longs buy companies that have good ones. If naked shorting was widespread, Cox would have paraded them in front of us already.

By: Brant Gaede

Brant Gaede — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:19:39 +0000

How come the naked short sellers didn’t do their dirty deeds last year? In fact all these big companies supposedly victimized by naked shorts had plenty of stock available to borrow. That leaves short selling per se.

By: David

David — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:20:45 +0000

Mr. Mtg–

This video clip is facinating–probably all stuff you are well aware of, but I was formerly of the opinion that naked short selling couldnt have done this much damage to our country–

It seems like the corruption is thick at every level of our govt… What do you think about this??

http://current.com/items/89439340_destroying_companies_for_profit

By: peterb

peterb — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:18:10 +0000

Maybe the Fed could send us all a check for about $100K. That ought to do it for a while. But with unemployment rising. We’ll need another one in a year. Kinda like what they’re doing for all the biggest companies in the US right now. I want my check, damn it!!

By: MR WIZARD

MR WIZARD — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:22:01 +0000

I don’t see how the US federal government can avoid running the M3 printing presses to inflate the value of houses to make all of these bad loans good. Everybody likes making more money, even though it’s purchasing power is less. It is a hidden tax but consumers don’t care.

The question is, which nation will print money first?

By: HousingRealist

HousingRealist — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:44:29 +0000

s&p at 200 here we come. Any predictions?