oh no we'll definitely send millions of our boys to get murdered to keep that indivisible bit, even if the chunk that's trying to leave is the poorly-run-enterprise chunk
now wait a minute, what?
― Kerm, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
all this shit could have been avoided with a congestion charge.
there are some billboards promoting the c-charge still up in east new york, it's pretty sad
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course it's not enough money non-shockahhttp://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/bailout-funds-for-gm-may-fall-short-analyst-says/
― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha I am not making any type of argument for the supremacy of Boston public transit! I would gladly trade up to "just-pissed-on" from "just-pissed-puked-shat-and-menstruated-on".
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yo joe you can't DRINK on the subway, though - a disgraceful situation
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
wait now I don't know if I'm describing Boston or Philly
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
agreed drinking should be allowed everywhere
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't hear the beverage industry crying to warshington for handouts!
― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
youre sort of allowed to drink on the subway
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
jsut like youre sort of allowed to smell like shit and have no pants on and sleep at 2 in the afternoon sprawled out on four cars headed out to far rockaway
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
uh four seats
lol reed richards is a homeless person
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely he could construct a home out of his own body?
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
are you hungover Tombot?
― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
we gonna die. dow below 8000. everyone panic!
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
eurgh
nasdaq is down 47% this year
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I would gladly trade up to "just-pissed-on" from "just-pissed-puked-shat-and-menstruated-on".
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
NASA has a solution.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know what this means but it looks crazy.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/adj-and-req-reserves.png
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
haha thats my feeling about 90% of graphs i see on this thread
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
o no where are those lines going!
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
come back we need u!
i bought more berkshire
http://i37.tinypic.com/124wz79.jpg
― bnw, Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 350 points or over 3% with less than 30 minutes left in the session.
The Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index lost 4.3% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) lost almost 3%.
While there's no sense of panic at the moment, there's also no eagerness to step in and buy, said Tom Schrader, managing director at Stifel Nicolaus.
"The wealth destruction is phenomenal," Schrader said.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
"wealth destruction!" they should call it "dream destruction" so people would realize what's really at stake here
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i37.tinypic.com/rvityc.jpg
lolwidget
― wealth destruction! (ice cr?m), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
TSX 7,724.80 -9.02%
― rent, Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i33.tinypic.com/vr34g9.jpg
― :) wealth destruction! (ice cr?m), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
imagining those guys yelling SHOW ME THE MONEY at nancy pelosi cuba gooding jr style is way funnier than the original
― :) wealth destruction! (ice cr?m), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― bnw, Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:59 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
only thing abt this is warren buffet is really old
― :) wealth destruction! (ice cr?m), Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
so is your mom
― bnw, Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
a dude i know on another MB compiled a list of companies that lost 80% or more in the last 12 months.
many of them wont make it but invest in the right ones and you will eventually make some $$
FordGeneral MotorsCitigroupCBS BroadcastingMorgan StanleyMGM MirageMerrill LynchUS SteelAlcoaSirius RadioSprint NextelMotorolaExpediaMacy'sUnited AirlinesReliant EnergyAbercrombieOffice DepotCignaSun Microsystems
― is that my man hannity?? (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
gallows lolz but lol @ abercrombie
― is that my man hannity?? (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
US SteelAlcoaSprint NextelExpediaMGM MirageSun MicrosystemsCitigroup
^^^^ I like these
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
guess i better use this macys gift card soon huh
― is that my man hannity?? (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG WE RE FOOKED
http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/11/19/there-is-now-little-doubt/
Seriously, all you need is this thread. Fuck Roubini and his minions. Tombot rulez.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Apple's a good buy too.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ford is @ 1.39 and GM is at 2.33!
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:08 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
agreedhttp://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Casestudy/ID74271_2_depression_apples.gif
― is that my man hannity?? (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
alcoa ain't goin anywhere
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=8f2815fac3f186b2_landing
Young boys haggling w. a vendor on the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Aves., trading apples for his chesnuts.Location: Brooklyn, NY, USDate taken: October 04, 1887Photographer: Wallace G. Levison
― gabbneb, Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Obama Team Said to Explore `Prepack' Auto Bankruptcyhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRfqFMhlj5lk&
― o. nate, Friday, 21 November 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
This is an interesting article - argues persuasively for higher gasoline taxes in the US:
Detroit bail-out: a nation in denialhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d09dfebe-b729-11dd-8e01-0000779fd18c.html
― o. nate, Friday, 21 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I think there should at least be a floor on prices - say $2.25
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Obama told CBS News's "60 Minutes" on Nov. 16 that government aid to automakers might come in the form of a "bridge loan," advanced if the industry could draw up plan to make itself "sustainable."
See now, that's a fine word, one with a lot of non-business uses. It looks like <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/244487.php">John Marshall</a> might be happy after all - maybe the US car industry won't move away from gas without a gun to their head, but if you've got a gun, and you've got their head...
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that a price floor would be a good start, and might be more politically palatable than an outright tax increase. Over time the floor could rise. It's interesting to me that democracies in Europe can somehow maintain political support for gas taxes that appear politically impossible in the US. I guess it has something to do with America's historical love affair with cars - but don't Germans love their cars too?
Comparison of gas prices in some European countries and US, going back to '96:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
― o. nate, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's more to do with Americans seeing any kind of tax as somehow illegitimate.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess so, but there hasn't been any hue and cry over punitive cigarette taxes, for instance. Maybe it just requires convincing Americans that there is a moral issue involve (ie., What Would Jesus Drive?)
― o. nate, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
okay this is a very late comment but you could not convince me to put even a penny into Expedia
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The average car in the United States travels 50 percent more per year than a car in Germany
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link