Comments on: Citi’s Upside-Down Family Tree http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157391 Mark E Hoffer Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:20:12 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157391 Lori, keep that coming, these bounds: "Let’s look more carefully at his three regions. 1.) The sphere of legitimate debate is the one journalists recognize as real, normal, everyday terrain. They think of their work as taking place almost exclusively within this space. (It doesn’t, but they think so.) Hallin: “This is the region of electoral contests and legislative debates, of issues recognized as such by the major established actors of the American political process.” Here the two-party system reigns, and the news agenda is what the people in power are likely to have on their agenda. Perhaps the purest expression of this sphere is Washington Week on PBS, where journalists discuss what the two-party system defines as “the issues.” Objectivity and balance are “the supreme journalistic virtues” for the panelists on Washington Week because when there is legitimate debate it’s hard to know where the truth lies. There are risks in saying that truth lies with one faction in the debate, as against another— even when it does. He said, she said journalism is like the bad seed of this sphere, but also a logical outcome of it. 2. ) The sphere of consensus is the “motherhood and apple pie” of politics, the things on which everyone is thought to agree..." http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/12/atomization.html need to be stretched.. Lori,

keep that coming, these bounds: “Let’s look more carefully at his three regions.

1.) The sphere of legitimate debate is the one journalists recognize as real, normal, everyday terrain. They think of their work as taking place almost exclusively within this space. (It doesn’t, but they think so.) Hallin: “This is the region of electoral contests and legislative debates, of issues recognized as such by the major established actors of the American political process.”

Here the two-party system reigns, and the news agenda is what the people in power are likely to have on their agenda. Perhaps the purest expression of this sphere is Washington Week on PBS, where journalists discuss what the two-party system defines as “the issues.” Objectivity and balance are “the supreme journalistic virtues” for the panelists on Washington Week because when there is legitimate debate it’s hard to know where the truth lies. There are risks in saying that truth lies with one faction in the debate, as against another— even when it does. He said, she said journalism is like the bad seed of this sphere, but also a logical outcome of it.

2. ) The sphere of consensus is the “motherhood and apple pie” of politics, the things on which everyone is thought to agree…”
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/12/atomization.html

need to be stretched..

]]> By: Lynn http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157356 Lynn Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:23:42 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157356 While most trees appear to be reaching for heaven, this one seems to be tunneling it's way to hell. While most trees appear to be reaching for heaven, this one seems to be tunneling it’s way to hell.

]]> By: FromLori http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157276 FromLori Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:12:47 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157276 I have another SHAM I want to bring to your attention. If you haven’t already heard CITI-fraud payed out $10.8 Million to its Chief Executive at a time when they were SUCKING you dry to the tune of $45 Billion! http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/pandit-lewis-diverge-strategy/story.aspx?guid={846BDDFC-37A5-4FD0-8888-D60E52FAED9F}&tool=1&dist=bigcharts& Either purposely or incompetently The Resident cut a real bad deal for you the taxpayer already on Citi-fraud. Coincidence? http://mcauleysworld.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/obamas-citi-group-move-crash-burns-obama-pays-premium-for-citi-stock-that-goes-bust/ Look who is movin on up to the Treasury! Coincidence? Citi-fraud top donor to The Resident’s Inaugeration. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123732747181462245.html US of Citi-fraud, Coincidence?? http://www.americablog.com/2009/02/united-states-of-citibank.html I have another SHAM I want to bring to your attention. If you haven’t already heard CITI-fraud payed out $10.8 Million to its Chief Executive at a time when they were SUCKING you dry to the tune of $45 Billion!

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/pandit-lewis-diverge-strategy/story.aspx?guid={846BDDFC-37A5-4FD0-8888-D60E52FAED9F}&tool=1&dist=bigcharts&

Either purposely or incompetently The Resident cut a real bad deal for you the taxpayer already on Citi-fraud. Coincidence?

http://mcauleysworld.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/obamas-citi-group-move-crash-burns-obama-pays-premium-for-citi-stock-that-goes-bust/

Look who is movin on up to the Treasury! Coincidence? Citi-fraud top donor to The Resident’s Inaugeration.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123732747181462245.html

US of Citi-fraud, Coincidence??

http://www.americablog.com/2009/02/united-states-of-citibank.html

]]> By: MeanReverter http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157152 MeanReverter Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:13:56 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157152 Oh, but Barry: https://www.hangingtomato.com/?cid=486431 Upside down tomatoes "without all the work." Oh, but Barry:

https://www.hangingtomato.com/?cid=486431

Upside down tomatoes “without all the work.”

]]> By: dan. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157138 dan. Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:35:05 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157138 nice funnel shape to the tree. and the earlier poster was spot on. all thats missing is the swirling action. nice funnel shape to the tree. and the earlier poster was spot on. all thats missing is the swirling action.

]]> By: Bruce in Tn http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157132 Bruce in Tn Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:58:31 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157132 http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_11996662?nclick_check=1 Voters cool to ballot measures to fix state budget ...No different than the national mood about the spending our government is doing... http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_11996662?nclick_check=1

Voters cool to ballot measures to fix state budget

…No different than the national mood about the spending our government is doing…

]]> By: Kyle http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157122 Kyle Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:25:31 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157122 The problem with this tree is that corporations don't grow like trees at all, they grow more like the funguses that grow on dead trees. Think "The Blob" but with more structure. The problem with this tree is that corporations don’t grow like trees at all, they grow more like the funguses that grow on dead trees. Think “The Blob” but with more structure.

]]> By: johnny http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157110 johnny Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:02:28 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157110 when you see that nasty graph remember this.... price paid above book value goes to the balance sheet as goodwill which to me basically means citi is dead. when you see that nasty graph remember this…. price paid above book value goes to the balance sheet as goodwill which to me basically means citi is dead.

]]> By: johnny http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157109 johnny Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:59:23 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157109 get rid of this iscribe shit. let us download or fuck signing up. get rid of this iscribe shit. let us download or fuck signing up.

]]> By: bman http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/citis-upside-down-family-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-157108 bman Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:53:08 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=22503#comment-157108 I like the inbred aspect to it, it clearly demonstrates what's wrong with the picture. Whatever the case there are too many bank branches in my town and too many main offices. I like the inbred aspect to it, it clearly demonstrates what’s wrong with the picture. Whatever the case there are too many bank branches in my town and too many main offices.

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