Comments on: Bailout Nation Editor Quits McGraw Hill

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:40:09 +0000

Whoops… looks like I asshatted myself… with my first comment no less!

Ok, let’s try again.

I have had long running discussion with my mother (the worry wort) about what all this economic breakdown means for her personally, as she approaches 70.

(My mom lives in Ft Wayne IN, a great place to find an “average American!)

The upshot is that she and her neighbors are beginning to understand that what’s coming may require them to take a real stand. A real stand meaning putting their homes and their jobs at risk. Maybe this isn’t that big a deal considering that for many of them, their homes and their jobs are already at risk… but now isn’t that as much a worry for TPTB?

Jeanne Glasser is an inspiration to me, and I believe she will be to my mother and my family, as conditions proceed from very dark to pitch black.

By: doolin

doolin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:27:36 +0000

What’s coming is going to take a lot more of the same sort of courage!

By: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:17:05 +0000

Presumably she hooked you up with folks @ Wiley? She sounds like a good egg.

By: WaveCatcher

WaveCatcher — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:31:24 +0000

Erin can hold her own with Cramer. But they are both entertainers… circus clowns.

One of these days she will be proven right about one of her silver linings. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

In the meantime, she is good eye candy for the audience which is overwhelmingly male. Nothing wrong with that. CNBC is in the entertainment business after all.

Anybody that makes investment decisions based on recommendations of circus clowns deserves to lose it all.

By: 1001

1001 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:34:51 +0000

In Cambridge , at Harvard Common park , the shanty towns are now called “Obamaville”

By: Andy Tabbo

Andy Tabbo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:00 +0000

karen. Agreed. She does something very few can do. Perhaps I was a bit harsh. There are others who disgust me much more. My frustration with her is the general ability to view things “evenly.” Her distinct bias seems to make things look better than it really is, almost like she’s serving as P.R. rep for the NYSE or something…

In markets, sometimes the only silver lining is when none can be seen…

By: Steve Barry

Steve Barry — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:09:47 +0000

Short Man:

good point…I am fully loaded with QID…put/call being low is not my main criteria…just a supporting data point. The mountain of debt that has not even started to go away is my thesis.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:27:05 +0000

Andy, i don’t have tv, remember. speaking in front of a camera takes skill and she does it. i could never manage opm, btw. the “others will have to suffer” lower returns.. lol… i can’t believe she disgusts you, she’s not maria… there’s always a silver lining, btw…

By: Andy Tabbo

Andy Tabbo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:18:34 +0000

karen. Ha. Not Nice?

That’s probably the first exchange between those two that was worth watching. I know the “crowd” hates Jim Cramer, but he was actually a real life “money manager.” I know how that feels, and it’s difficult. If he was the “real deal,” the role of ‘money manager’ never leaves you. It’s really, really hard to manage other peoples money. You feel bad when you fail….worse than when you lose you’re own money…that seems weird I know…but it’s the truth.

So, it was interesting to me to watch a guy who knows about money management talk to someone WHO KNOWS NOTHING about money management ‘live’…..

E.B. really, really disgusts me….she’s one of the reasons I’ve tuned off CNBC during the day….”Ms. Silver Lining.”

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:55:31 +0000

Erin Burnett, in all seriousness, should follow Jeanne Glasser’s lead, and convince Becky Quick to do the same..