Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

Last few days have seen monster plunges in the last half hour too

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sellers of credit-default protection on bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will have to pay holders 91.375 cents on the dollar, setting up the biggest-ever payout in the $55 trillion market.

nice understatmente...

The failures of Lehman, once the fourth-largest securities firm, and Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc. as well as the government takeovers of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Iceland's biggest banks have provided the 10-year-old credit-default swaps market with its biggest test to date.

It's just a test. I thought it was real. Phew.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435681,00.html

World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis'

holy fuck

wowwwwwwwww

If I had a few thousand dollars laying around right now I'd probably keep an eye on the Berkshire B shares and buy one when they settle down a bit.

― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, October 10, 2008 3:52 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was thinking the same today, look at its relative strength vs dow

Tombot has been curiously absent…

hey now -- 8,517.62Change:-61.57 -0.72%

waht

shoving it up for a freefall of selling in the last 30 mins.

theres always monday

Yeah, wouldn't be surprised - a lot of people who wished they got out before are going to get out now, methinks.

omg it's up 50 what the fuckity fuck is going on

+100

the bigger they are

+213

+300!

Everything seemed strangely placid when the final credit default rate was announced for the Lehman stuff.

on the sink again

+3

Yay gyrations!

-100

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

lol

-10

+1

WE NEED FLASH GRAPHS

http://www.radford.edu/~prehealth/business-ekg.jpg

I really don't care what caused the late upswing. smash this stoopid system.

Morbs, that was punk rock

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/images/2008/10/10/bank_jamaica.jpg

Morbs do you know how to make a gas bomb?

only bad jokes coming to mind...

I think McCain made an accidental point with "My fellow prisoners." ...if he didn't have 7 houses.

Berlusconi goes for the ridiculous

Berlusconi Roils Markets With Claim of Global Market Closures
By Steve Scherer

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi roiled international markets today, first saying world leaders were discussing shutting down global financial exchanges, and then saying he didn't mean it.

Heads of government may seek to ``rewrite the rules of international finance'' in a bid to end the world market turmoil, he said at a press conference in Naples. Less than an hour later, after the White House denied any plan to shutter Wall Street, Berlusconi reversed himself, saying he was just repeating something he heard on the radio.

a little corporatism did italy good a while ago amirite

BOO YA

v freaked out @ being unemployed right now

U (you) gonna die

lolz Berlusconi what a bozo

viva italia

Berlusconi reversed himself, saying he was just repeating something he heard on the radio

You know these is crazy times when a head of state says this to make it *less* embarrassing

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1039344020081010

But while 17 billionaires on Forbes list lost more than $1 billion in the past month, Buffett managed to boost his wealth by $8 billion to $58 billion, pushing him ahead of Gates, whose fortune fell to $55.5 billion from $57 billion.

hahahaha

amazink

Aaand Krugman wins econoNobel.

Both institutions should stop playing for time, as delay will be destructive: They should merge now with a large foreign financial institution, as no U.S. institution is sound enough and large enough to be a solid merger partner. If John Mack and Lloyd Blankfein don't want to end up like Richard Fuld, they should do a John Thain today and merge as fast as they can with other large commercial banks. Maybe Mitsubishi (other-otc: MSBHY.PK - news - people ) and a bunch of Japanese life insurers can take over Morgan.

The only institution sound enough to swallow Goldman may be HSBC (nyse: HBC - news - people ). Or maybe Nomura in Japan should make a bid for Goldman. Either way, Mack and Blankfein should sell at a major discount before they end up like Bear and are offered, in a few weeks, only a couple of bucks a share for their faltering operation. And the Fed and Treasury should tell them to hurry up, as they are both much bigger than Bear or Lehman, and their collapse would have severe systemic effects.

vs

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/09/roubini-goldman-profit-oped-cx_lp1010praag.html

Aaand Krugman wins econoNobel.

I just saw that! I love his blog reaction.

(I guess they also figured now was not the year to give it to someone at the U. of Chicago.)

Soros on Bill Moyers Journal last Friday:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10102008/profile.html

Probablu the best analysis of the crisis that I've seen on TV.

Probably