On the List
By Barry Ritholtz - November 3rd, 2009, 7:00PM
I don’t know why I find this so amusing, but:
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via New Yorker
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Macro Notes
US$ rally continuesPeter Boockvar
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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November 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Man! It’s almost like the way the FDIC and Treasury bounced on the banks! Well…. “almost”
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Hopefully, you know, for XYZ, they had Swanson covered .. http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Janitor%27s+Insurance
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I’ll take your cartoon a step further and urge you (on the road…in the hotel rooms, etc) and your readers to see this:
BTW: There’s a Trailer..in case one want’s to know ahead of time what they are getting in to. I always like those …so I don’t get suckered into “bad stuff.” (”bad stuff” being something I close my ears to and do “nah…nah…nah…i don’t wanna hear this shit.”) Anyway…it’s a good watch…as to what we migh need going forward when we relive HOOVER!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ccc/introduction
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Yeah, it’s amusing; I’m sure we can all relate to it in some way.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Cracked me up too. Something about the giant fist and vacant expression.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I thought I was going to see who is on the secret list… of TBTF banks…
I’m guessing I could probably name two or three safe bets myself.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
OT:
GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ
now republicans will be emboldened and health care may be dead… again!
and
does this mean Palin’s gotta real chance in ‘12? You bethca!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Both parties suck and they should be fired.
Palin might win 2012.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Just came across this while re-reading the Complete Calvin and Hobbes; it covers a lot of present day economic ground:
http://imgur.com/D3d2K