MeFi comment:
"I never understood this challenge. Everyone knows psychics and magic tricks aren't real. That's why they're called "tricks".
Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money...." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Pope Guilty
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If Obama succeeds in taking moderates, the evangelical and talk radio wings will only be stronger.
This is one of those outcomes that people seem to predict for just about any scenario. If Obama wins, it will make the hard right feel victimized..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by jaymzjulian, L. Ron McKenzie, zippy, DU, retronic, davidmsc
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand why you frame this as collateral damage from "subprime". Iceland has been in some major shit for some time now (link from 2006). The global financial crisis has certainly accelerated and intensified the situation in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Not too shabby for a year's worth of work legalized robbery
Anyone interested in how short-sellers really operate should read David Einhorn's recent book, Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, about his six year battle with Allied Capital,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A guy that decided as late as 2007 that the housing market was overinflated is consitered a financial genius on Wall Street?
Plenty of investors lost their shirts betting against the housing and MBS markets starting back in '04, '05 and '06. Just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So even if the FDIC had failed, had WaMu not been able to be sold off, then "regular folk" accounts would still be safe? What are the other processes by which accounts are protected?
The FDIC put out this letter today.
Relevant..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jock@law, zippy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I guess that means that TPG, who invested in WaMu a few months ago, will take a total loss.
That's the amazing part to me. TPG, heretofore the most successful of the big buyout shops, put in $2 billion in April and got paid $50 million to arrange..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Apparently JPMorgan is paying $1.9 billion for the assets (all? not clear) and deposits and some of the other obligations. I assume the $1.9 billion will be used to pay off equity and bondholders, but it obviously won't be nearly enough.
$1.9b..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"According to this WSJ article:
"At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ShawnStruck, a3matrix, ymgve, konolia
Last month
MeTa comment:
"He's an idiot, but that doesn't mean he's a pedophile.
As someone who just took a ride in an elevator without remembering to choose a floor, I am very relieved to hear this...." [
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favorited 64 times, recently by Lacking Subtlety, misha, RussHy, gursky, pocketfluff, teem, you're a kitty!, graventy, trip and a half, Squee, grandsham, mismatched, crickets, CitrusFreak12, nickyskye, scrump, urbanwhaleshark, JaredSeth, metasav, gjc, justonegirl, deborah, M Edward, mykescipark, AV, theredpen, Esoquo, palomar, peacheater, Brainy, DevilsAdvocate, bendy, gordie, Dormant Gorilla, ChuqD, pyrex, oneirodynia, shmegegge, M.C. Lo-Carb!, nola, Drastic, bonaldi, flibbertigibbet, bkudria, roll truck roll, UbuRoivas, trondant, ORthey, hototogisu, GoingToShopping, davejay, SassHat, Etaoin Shrdlu
Last month
Ask comment:
"I don't know if GS has the same solvency problems that Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, Merrill Lynch, and holy fuck am I really typing this list?
GS has termed out most of its debt, so it's a bit of a different scenario than Lehman and even MS. I am..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by disillusioned, MLIS
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I was hoping for "In Soviet Russia, my other dog is teh clown. Todd Lokken."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by camdan
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I swear I read an article every six months about fine art as an asset class for investment. It's that and articles about "suits & ties making a comeback in a business casual world." A quick google search turns up art as investment..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rongorongo, geoff.
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Don't be a hater just because we have big vocabularies.
Or because my vocabulary consists mostly of words like "QI" and "ZA."" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by box, merelyglib
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Everyone hates financial accounting.
Not me. I love financial accounting--it's the only thing keeping me sane in this chaotic world.
Only in financial accounting is there truly and literally balance.
For every dollar in assets there is a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by velvet winter
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Depends on what you want to do...if you're very ambitious, I tend to agree with the saying caddis mentions about only a top 10 school being worthwhile. If you are indeed very ambitious, I'd get the accounting degree, work at a Big 4 accounting firm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mjolnir
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I grew up and went to school in the Phoenix area. I moved away for a couple years and then had a strong desire to move back. I was sick of my job in NYC and missed my old college and high school friends and my family. The first couple months were..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mjolnir
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Asparagirl said: As mentioned, if IndyMac's assets are sold off -- literally marked to market! -- then many other banks' assets must finally be dragged out into the light and marked to market.
I don't follow your logic here (and it's not because..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, if you don't make it an FPP, we'll never get the MeTa callout when someone says "What do you expect from a state whose official motto is a threat?". Wouldn't want to miss out on one of those again...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mudpuppie, dirtdirt
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"...fight hard against the Republican Congress to push through the Clinton tax hike for the highest income earners
Er, let me re-phrase that: he had to fight hard against Republicans in Congress to push through the 1993 plan. Republicans didn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yort
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The United States has a population of over 300,000,000 while Canada comes in at a little over 30,000,000 with 80% of that population within hours drive of the U.S. border.
We got all the people, they got all the oil and water...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by SassHat, Afroblanco
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stop responding to konolia, you dorks. No one reads your special snowflake retort because everyone is too busy trying to come up with their own." [
more]
favorited 23 times, recently by tehloki, swerve, oaf, klangklangston, Rock Steady, Richard Daly, Ludi, nasreddin, 235w103, anthill, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, SassHat, unmake, xthlc, Senor Cardgage, mudpuppie, the other side, homunculus, theclaw, Skorgu, dyoneo, Mayor Curley, wtdoor
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'm a proponent of index fund investing, as I've repeated on AskMe many times. But if I could think of one major drawback to that strategy, it is ikkyu2's point #2 (that an index fund will invest in companies you may consider socially irresponsible)...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LC, any major dude
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Where do the US presidential candidates stand on the issue of fixed gear bikes? It may come down to that for me." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Telf, Jahaza
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Moodstream sliders
I was expecting little greasy hamburgers, so now my mood is shitty." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by dmd
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Back Story: Gore Vidal Interview.
C'mon, ericb, the money quote from that article deserves quoting:
Me: You had a calling. You knew what you wanted to do from an early age -- you needed to write. So many people today in the world suffer because..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think the problem is that, essentially, people are cheap...
I agree that people are cheap. They come here looking for a little context about their problem so that they aren't totally head-over-heels confused when they go on the clock with an..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by davejay, cjets, mudpuppie
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"dersins: No, I'm just challenging your assertion that a lawyer who gave "free advice" would be out of a job. Clearly that's not the case. This and your overall whole black-and-white approach to legal questions on AskMe just strike me as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cjets
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For baseball, meanwhile, sacrifice is an actual statistic: The best fail in 70 percent of their at-bats.
This isn't right either. On-base percentage is a better stat to use and the top 10 hitters end up in the .400 - .500 range. In basketball, the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, rokusan
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Teenagers should go to as many concerts as they can." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by nenequesadilla, infinitefloatingbrains, Brainy, samthemander, thisisnotkatrina, Bigfoot Mandala, gursky, Who_Am_I, Floydd, fishfucker, Julnyes, thetenthstory, contraption
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I sometimes get strange looks when I say I’m searching for a partner who is outgoing, liberal, likes sports, and likes the same type of music/food/movies.
This look means: Yeah, you and everyone else. Stop acting like you're special...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fleacircus
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This leaves me unsure whether or not to post my grainy out-of-focus possibly-fake cellphone video of a drunken cokehead smashing into the First Annual Take Back The Streets Vagina Bicycle Race.
This is what Projects is for...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, Inspector.Gadget
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"klangklangston: I'll pay you $500 for your blocks and send them to kmennie if you can create a set that match the quality of the Novanatural blocks. We can send them to some third-party to make the determination. And you'd have some limited amount of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flatluigi, padraigin
5 months ago
