Comments on: Who Gets Bailed Out Next? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:55:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bruce in Tn http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126637 Bruce in Tn Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:42:51 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126637 The news this morning is so good, you couldn't make it up. Europe is threatening sanctions if we bail out our car companies, and GM wants Europe to bail out the Opel.. http://money.uk.msn.com/investing/articles/morecommentary/article.aspx?cp-documentid=10960070 Europe car sales plunge as GM's Opel seeks bailout Interest rate on CD's is beginning to climb (Imagine that..) States, cities, companies...all are lining up for a meal at the drive in window.... http://prudentbear.com/index.php?Itemid=57&option=com_content&view=frontpage Leftback....what do you think about Initial Claims Thursday....any chance of a Whopper? The news this morning is so good, you couldn’t make it up.

Europe is threatening sanctions if we bail out our car companies, and GM wants Europe to bail out the Opel..

http://money.uk.msn.com/investing/articles/morecommentary/article.aspx?cp-documentid=10960070

Europe car sales plunge as GM’s Opel seeks bailout

Interest rate on CD’s is beginning to climb (Imagine that..)

States, cities, companies…all are lining up for a meal at the drive in window….

http://prudentbear.com/index.php?Itemid=57&option=com_content&view=frontpage

Leftback….what do you think about Initial Claims Thursday….any chance of a Whopper?

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126404 DL Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:54:24 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126404 We should just come up with a list of entities that WON'T get bailed out. That list is getting shorter every day. We should just come up with a list of entities that WON’T get bailed out.

That list is getting shorter every day.

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126403 DL Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:52:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126403 The mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix and Atlanta all want bailouts now. http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/11/14/tarp-city/ The mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix and Atlanta all want bailouts now.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/11/14/tarp-city/

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126380 DL Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:15:45 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126380 How about some bailouts for the people who lost money in the "dot com" crash? How about some bailouts for the people who lost money in the “dot com” crash?

]]> By: batmando http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126368 batmando Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:28:06 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126368 To refer to my freshman Senator Sherrod Brown's ramblings as "analysis" is beyond generous. He is as clueless or as disingenuous, take your pick, as the next tool in the Congress, e.g., as I recall, Chrysler's debt was only gov't guaranteed so taxpayers never got back any money as none was ever lent. To refer to my freshman Senator Sherrod Brown’s ramblings as “analysis” is beyond generous.
He is as clueless or as disingenuous, take your pick, as the next tool in the Congress, e.g., as I recall, Chrysler’s debt was only gov’t guaranteed so taxpayers never got back any money as none was ever lent.

]]> By: DP http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/who-gets-bailed-out-next/comment-page-1/#comment-126351 DP Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:05:24 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=9486#comment-126351 If conventional wisdom says that buying puts on a stock you are long serves as "insurance', can I sell a boat load of puts, declare myself an insurance company, and apply for TARP? Unless those puts pay off of course, then it's all mine, after all this is a free market and I took on the risk so I keep all the profit. Mine! Mine! Mine! If conventional wisdom says that buying puts on a stock you are long serves as “insurance’, can I sell a boat load of puts, declare myself an insurance company, and apply for TARP?

Unless those puts pay off of course, then it’s all mine, after all this is a free market and I took on the risk so I keep all the profit. Mine! Mine! Mine!

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