Comments on: The Thundering Herd . . . “Were Pigs” http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: bookokane http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125289 bookokane Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:25:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125289 I love these near once in a lifetime opportunities to nit-pick insignificant details- didn't you mean "ignominius" fall? Tsk Tsk I love these near once in a lifetime opportunities to nit-pick insignificant details- didn’t you mean “ignominius” fall? Tsk Tsk

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125221 Mark E Hoffer Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:13:21 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125221 "tries to group failures into a herd. It gives cover to the very deliberate criminal, fraudulent acts perpetrated by the people steering the rudder of all these financial institutions and brokerages..." yes, AGG, good point. No kidding.. O'neil walks with, nearly, 1/4 Billion over 4 years, and the harshest rejoinder he faced, in the art, was 'autocratic'..It's quite the gag.. This story, actually, tells little that couldn't have been told in '006, and she never mentions the multitudes of Pensions, and the like, that these 'products' were stuffed into, to say nothing of 'UTC' 'fees' that their 'managers' were paid for 'buying' them.. “tries to group failures into a herd. It gives cover to the very deliberate criminal, fraudulent acts perpetrated by the people steering the rudder of all these financial institutions and brokerages…”

yes, AGG, good point. No kidding..

O’neil walks with, nearly, 1/4 Billion over 4 years, and the harshest rejoinder he faced, in the art, was ‘autocratic’..It’s quite the gag..

This story, actually, tells little that couldn’t have been told in ‘006, and she never mentions the multitudes of Pensions, and the like, that these ‘products’ were stuffed into, to say nothing of ‘UTC’ ‘fees’ that their ‘managers’ were paid for ‘buying’ them..

]]> By: AGG http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125214 AGG Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:34:09 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125214 Just a note to the many sane people that frequent Barry's outpost of reasoned logic: Watch out when the press trys to group failures into a herd. It gives cover to the very deliberate criminal, fraudulent acts perpetrated by the people steering the rudder of all these financial institutions and brokerages that need to have their assets stripped, their kids sent to public school and their spouses imprisoned until the debt is paid. Keep the heat on with a lazer, not a scatter gun. Just a note to the many sane people that frequent Barry’s outpost of reasoned logic:
Watch out when the press trys to group failures into a herd. It gives cover to the very deliberate criminal, fraudulent acts perpetrated by the people steering the rudder of all these financial institutions and brokerages that need to have their assets stripped, their kids sent to public school and their spouses imprisoned until the debt is paid. Keep the heat on with a lazer, not a scatter gun.

]]> By: AGG http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125213 AGG Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:27:33 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125213 Bank failures, Don't worry, Mauldin took VERY close notice of the recent bank failure of his buddy in Texas. That was a royal kick in the family jewels to a lot of Texans that richly deserved it. Bank failures,
Don’t worry, Mauldin took VERY close notice of the recent bank failure of his buddy in Texas. That was a royal kick in the family jewels to a lot of Texans that richly deserved it.

]]> By: AGG http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125212 AGG Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:24:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125212 Poor widdle puddy tat. Nice fat little piggly wiggly. Hey fat cats and pigs! Look on the bright side. You might live through this now that we see you're some of the money you stole. But you never know, John Q Public is very pissied right now. You bad people better start getting real charitable real fast. Poor widdle puddy tat.
Nice fat little piggly wiggly.
Hey fat cats and pigs! Look on the bright side. You might live through this now that we see you’re some of the money you stole.
But you never know, John Q Public is very pissied right now. You bad people better start getting real charitable real fast.

]]> By: Bob the unemployed http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125173 Bob the unemployed Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:20:13 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125173 I guess we're not keeping track of bank failures anymore, that "Bank failure Friday" has become passé? :) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110703599.html" rel="nofollow">Regulators Seize Bank Founded by Mortgage-Backed Securities Pioneer</a>. I guess we’re not keeping track of bank failures anymore, that “Bank failure Friday” has become passé? :)

Regulators Seize Bank Founded by Mortgage-Backed Securities Pioneer.

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-thundering-herd-were-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-125167 Mark E Hoffer Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:38:17 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8620#comment-125167 The 'Cained Peep should detox, wake up, and keep their money at home. IOW Tear up the, one-way streets, leading Wall St. y D.C.. For starters, we can burn Charlie Merrill in effigy.. We're being looted, Latin-American-estilio, and funding our own destruction, in the process. We keep getting new Promises of new Processes, not just this year, or 8 years ago, or 8 before that, but, at least, 75, if not 95, or 108, probably longer. Nothing changes, no matter our Hopes. The People get the Hindmost, because, simply, Stupid never Pays..Are we Stupid? I think not, Are we Ignornant? For now, Gravely so.. The ‘Cained Peep should detox, wake up, and keep their money at home. IOW Tear up the, one-way streets, leading Wall St. y D.C.. For starters, we can burn Charlie Merrill in effigy..

We’re being looted, Latin-American-estilio, and funding our own destruction, in the process. We keep getting new Promises of new Processes, not just this year, or 8 years ago, or 8 before that, but, at least, 75, if not 95, or 108, probably longer. Nothing changes, no matter our Hopes. The People get the Hindmost, because, simply, Stupid never Pays..Are we Stupid? I think not, Are we Ignornant? For now, Gravely so..

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