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Geithner Unveils Revised Bank Plan (Cost now: 2 trillion and climbing)
businessweek.com ^ | February 10, 2009, 12:07PM EST | Phil Mintz

Posted on 02/10/2009 11:06:45 AM PST by Syncro

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To: azishot

same approach that Madoff used.....


61 posted on 02/10/2009 11:54:05 AM PST by KEmom (Please send viable Conservative candidates to Massachusetts!!)
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To: peeps36

$9.7 trillion and they are just getting started. The GDP is not going up, the value of the currency will soon have to fall to take this into account because I doubt all that has been sold as bonds


62 posted on 02/10/2009 11:56:52 AM PST by GeronL (please stand by...)
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To: peeps36

or close to $30,000 per American


63 posted on 02/10/2009 11:58:21 AM PST by GeronL (please stand by...)
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To: Syncro

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. They will keep coming back o the money well until it’s dry and our currency is worth ZERO. “Backing by the good faith of the American government” will be laugh, and be nothing but worthless paper.


64 posted on 02/10/2009 12:05:29 PM PST by chainsaw
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To: Skooz

We’ll just call it “Big Kenya”


65 posted on 02/10/2009 12:06:24 PM PST by RS_Rider
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To: EagleUSA

“You do NOT rebuild a capitalist economy”

He’s rebuilding a speculation economy.

It’s all about derivatives.

The “frozen markets” stuff — has anyone heard of anyone not able to get a loan as normal?

I see no economists who writes about this, or seems to know about them, they must all work for the finance sector.


66 posted on 02/10/2009 12:08:45 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: acoulterfan
Since we are mentioning Denninger's Market-Ticker.org,

This column (second part of the article ) is his description of the scam. It is the details some of you have been asking for.

http://market-ticker.org/archives/779-The-Swindle-Continues.....html

67 posted on 02/10/2009 12:09:49 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: GeronL

They should have just given it straight to us. We’d all pay our debt and buy new stuff, keeping everyone employed =/
I’m going to have to stop reading all this stuff.


68 posted on 02/10/2009 12:32:58 PM PST by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: visualops

it would still be inflationary but it would have been better than this


69 posted on 02/10/2009 12:34:51 PM PST by GeronL (please stand by...)
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To: Syncro

Note that we have abandoned use of the B word (billion) and gone straight to use of the T word (trillion). //sarc


70 posted on 02/10/2009 12:46:44 PM PST by BAW (Social Security needs a bailout.)
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To: silverleaf
Thanks, but what I am looking for is an application for my desktop that keeps track of the dow and certain commodities in real time.

Like is at the top of CNBC TV shows, and the little thingie that FOX and others show as the market is climbing and tanking.

Of course they all take it off of the screen when anyone from Present Obama Nation is talking so we can't watch it go down.

71 posted on 02/10/2009 1:19:17 PM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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To: lone star annie

>>They want to bankrupt the middle class so we will all be on the same level with the wealthy and ruling elite living like kings.

That is the eventual goal. The elite, of course, regard feudal society as the most natural form of social organization. But there will be many twists and turns so that the peasantry doesn’t realize that they are being guided back to feudalism.


72 posted on 02/10/2009 2:38:00 PM PST by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: Syncro
It's not hard to figure out why the markets tanked.

Any bank in trouble, who needs a bailout, will have to become an extension of socialist govt policy and CONTINUE the stupidity that got us here in the first place...loan...loan...loan.

As for addressing the real estate meltdown at the center of this entire mess...well, that'll have to wait a few weeks. We have some banks to socialize first.

Those who invest, especially those who invest A LOT, know the only way out of this mess is to encourage savings and investment.

73 posted on 02/10/2009 3:19:24 PM PST by Mariner
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To: GeronL

Yes I agree.


74 posted on 02/10/2009 7:15:33 PM PST by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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