Posted on 09/21/2008 4:57:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chair of the American Red Cross.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Paulson; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Paulson; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Paulson; Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Douglas Holtz Eakin, adviser to John McCain; Austan Goolsbee, adviser to Barack Obama; former Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.; Gene Sperling, former Clinton administration economic adviser; Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas.
But we will cross that bridge when we get there, and if we get there.
And yeah, I did buy some ammo today.
There is a argument to be made for regulating the derivatives market and causing them to be traded differently like options and not like bonds.
This is one area that does need attention. It is essentially unregulated and a big part of this problem that people saw coming a long time ago.
60’s wine? I don’t think so. Chrap shot but I’ll still answer.
Corporations exist to make profits. Unless there is someone evil directing their activities, it’s pretty much that simple. I maintain they want to increase profits by increasing productivity, reducing costs including getting government to help them in both.
You could be right until stockholders wake up or the public realizes the scam, or the company fails. But, the purpose of the corporation has not changed. It’s true now and it’s always been true. Just read US history to see the same activity and results.
cnn has obama’s speech
saying bail out must be for mainstreet not wallstreet.
IOW obama is trying to figure out how to lay in the pork.
CNN is carrying water for obama saying he is calling all these people.
LOOK ITS JOE BIDEN he has surficed?!
(no crowd at biden comment “rally” has staffers sitting behind him. sad when you need event staff wearing “staff” shirts to be fillers in the background.)
For Obama. This is his a$$ talking, his mouth knows better.
Just words. Say anything and someone will believe it, usually Democrats.
look at the number of people at the rallys and look at the people at the rallies.
It seems biden has nobody at his rallies.
Obama should be seen as pure fear for the citizens of this nation. Obama has no credibility with ecconomics.
Obama is invested in Jimmy Carter ecconomics. (just print more money)
FNC has some talking mousehead (greg?)
leading two liberals bashing mccain. sunday must be the left wing day at FNC.
Palin speech on FNC now...
Bloomberg was the best of all the Sunday morning talk show guests, knows what he’s talking about and can explain in a way I can understand. He was good until he started talking about regulation. Other than putting a ceiling on CEO salaries, I don’t know what his plan for regulation is, but he understands the economy and the markets very well.
Later, Bloomberg said BOTH candidates are consulting him.
re palin rally at the villages
1. Look at that crowd CRITICALLY. Not many in that crowd are OLD it is younger people who went to that retirement place.
2. Look at the wide shot, there is an actual crowd there, not a simulated crowd that biden had to have.
3. I see people snappin gpictures and trying to see. The obama people just sit there. (at least now, no fainting)
4. federal agencies staffed OVERWHELIMINGLY with left wing dc democrat beltway deziens.
5. seriously folks, analyze the crowds. THAT tells the tale.
bump to #385
Great explanation.
And the SEC allowed this crap to be on the balance sheets and no reserves. All the SEC had to do was early in the game “review” any one of these brokers-dealers it would have cut this short before it got out of hand.
What is the name of that PhD watchdog guy? I think he is at the Univ of Maryland? Some place like that? I think the acronym is CIFR but it is not coming up on Google. They do all the forensic accounting and have been know to kill stocks.
” the value essentially was zero! But you can’t put that on your balance sheet. “
You make my point. The SEC is in charge of SEC filings and the balance sheets in the 10-Ks and 10-Qs of these companies were overstated. The SEC should have called for a “review.” They do it all the time in my names. Crap they called BOBJ on the carpet for not stating license backlog. But it is impossible for a software company to have backlog. They SEC finally gave up but it took them several quarters before the idiot rookie SEC official in the SF office got lessoned.
Yep, I agree.
Hey, where are you hailing from? I have a Dumas nearby.”
Dumas, Texas? I went there once to see it and Clayton. Driving from NYC to LA via Taos. That is amazingly beautiful country. A lot to see. I had to spend a night in Clayton. I lived in Ketchum once and heard the story of BlackJack Ketchum - no relation that I know of.
It appears that those lawsuits were routinely dismissed.
As for mortgages-if you check the graphs, the worst foreclosure rates are in the upper middle class to upper class areas. Stockton CA is #1 in the nation for foreclosures. I can't see low income borrowers buying houses in those areas.
Thanks for the response.
“I wish you continued success with your spinal issues.”
Thanks. Keeping the weight down and watching how I move and trying to stretch first seems to keep it good most of the time. Ice and advil or tylenol when I mess up.
“Sarbanes/Oxley”
Sarbox is a joke. Not as much of a joke as Reg FD.
“Private plaintiffs and the Justice Department brought suits against lending institutions.”
And then you had the Rainbow Coalition going through the data looking for banks to sweat.
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