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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know Newsby SA Editor Rachael Granby- Bank trio becomes duo. Wells Fargo (WFC) will become the largest U.S. bank by branches with its bid for Wachovia (WB), after Citigroup (C) withdrew from compromise negotiations late yesterday on concerns about the quality of some of Wachovia's assets. Wells Fargo, with a bid valued at $11.4B, expects the purchase to be completed by the end of the year, and denies it will have to absorb assets shakier than originally thought.
- Government considers next steps. As the financial crisis continues to worsen, the U.S. government is considering two dramatic steps to turn around, or at least slow, the damage: guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring all U.S. bank deposits. The moves, which would mark the government's most extensive intervention to date, are in discussion stages only.
- Credit stays frozen. As frozen credit markets refuse to thaw, the cost of default protection on corporate bonds reaches new global records amid investor concerns the credit crisis will trigger corporate failures as companies struggle to finance their businesses. Interbank lending remains limited, and borrowing from the Fed's expanded discount window continued its trend of setting new highs every week, as the total daily average rose to $420.2B vs. $367.8B last week.
- Oil demand withers. The International Energy Agency warned Friday worldwide oil demand...
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- Jim Cramer's Picks -SampleBetter Choices - Cramer's Lightning Round (10/15/08)by SA Editor Rachael GranbyStocks discussed in the lightning round session of Jim Cramers Mad Money TV program,
Wednesday, October 15.Bullish Calls:Continental Resources (CLR) -- "This is a remarkable decline. All of the high quality ones are down so much, I can't go against it. This is where you pull the trigger.
3M (MMM) -- The moment this stock starts yielding 5%, I'm a buyer. Until then, keep your powder dry.Bearish Calls:Computer Sciences (CSC) -- This is a company that was going to be bought, but they passed up the chance. Now I don't want to buy it."Email continues...
Annaly Mortgage (NLY) -- I think this is a business model that needs to borrow money. Definitively do not buy."
Northrop Grumman (NOC) -- You can't own the defense stocks right now. If I had to own one, I'd look at Lockheed Martin (LMT) with its good dividend. - Stocks & Sectors -SampleSeeking Alpha - Stocks & SectorsInternet
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How to Inspire More Panic in the Economic Crisis
"Thomas Jefferson, a wise man by most accounts, thought central banks were not a very good idea.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.
We did not heed Mr. Jefferson’s prudent advice. The result for the American people has been persistent inflation that has destroyed the purchasing power of the US dollar. It takes $1.00 to buy what cost 5 cents in 1914, a 95% loss of purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve. Most of this loss in purchasing power has occurred since 1971. “Tricky Dick” Nixon took the country off the gold standard in 1971 and uncorked the bottle and let the inflation genie out. The unchecked issuance of debt by our government, facilitated by Federal Reserve policies since 1971, has brought our great country to the brink of financial disaster. The organization that caused the problem, did not see this crisis looming, and has utterly failed in stemming the damage, is now taking actions completely outside of its mandate, while telling the public they have the answers. They have duped the American public for 85 years through the insidious use of inflation, and now they are trying to dupe the world into keeping their Ponzi scheme going for a while longer."
On Dec 25 09:09 AM TAS wrote:
> Leave it to a socialist government (and Spain has the real McCoy)
> to almost gleefully anticipate the fall of capitalism and the necessary
> rise of big government to resolve all of the problems to live life
> happily everafter.
>
> I recommend he take a break and play a game of "catch the terrorist"
> with a Basque buddy.
>
Nuclear and Coal: The Energy 'Dream Team' for Years to Come
www.babcockpower.com/
On Dec 14 10:18 AM fireball wrote:
> varmit
> pardon my ignorance. is tmen on an american exchange? just wondering
> what the ob stands for. thanx.
Nuclear and Coal: The Energy 'Dream Team' for Years to Come
announcements from Babcock Energy (private) and
ThermoEnergy Corp. (tmen.ob).
Once their deal is finalized look for fast track deployment of what will
likely be the model and standard for carbon based power generation
world wide.
TIPS features an almost ZERO air emissions,99% co2 capture with a design capability to utilize all grades of coal, nat-gas and biomass from a design that is smaller,cheaper and can be used to retrofit many existing plants .
Toll Brothers: Are They Serious?
Unlike past recessions that hit blue collar workers hardest we are now confronted with large layoffs of white collar workers from the financial services
industry.
Throwing $ at home builders does nothing to address the root of our floundering
economy which is excessive consumer and public debt .
Better to drastically force reductions of credit card interest rates and forgive some accrued interest so the population will be better able to afford the basics
until some sense of normalcy returns.
America needs to again become a producing nation. The flirtation with the idea that we can somehow prosper as an information based society is flawed.
Rather than propping up failed models we to need to cultivate new industries that can not be exported.
There are a myriad of struggling innovative environmental and medical tech companies that are deserving. We can generate real jobs in new industries and
jump start the economy by upgrading our crumbling waste water systems bridges, roads and electrical grid while we wait
Peak Insanity: SEC Plans to Temporarily Ban Short-Selling
We will never see true healing in our economy as long as 'leaders' are
so willing to continue to pursue solutions that only deal with the immediate issues and continues to bury the future under an insurmountable mountain of debt.
False Data Clobbers the Markets
I'm more worried about the gas pump price next week when we begin to see if Gustav is going to be a problem.
Relax and enjoy plenty of time to be paranoid next week
Contact Your Senators to Protest Government Bailouts
embarased to say I live in Illinois home to Dick Durban and Obama.
As soon as we can sell our home we are moving.
Beacon: Powering Up
Historic Financial Collapse Underway?
and that does seem to be in the offing.
Regardless of the path taken there will be wide spread pain. I do expect a nationalized health care plan and that will be the solution to the medicare dilemma.
This does not need to be the socialized disaster suffered by our northern neighbors. All Americans should see this series: Sick Around the world. Its available on the PPS web site
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages.../
Why Investors Worship Old King Coal
boston.bizjournals.com...
Coal Investors Partying Like It's 1999
Fed Easing: No Free Lunch for Dollar, Oil and Commodities
its imported oil consumption.
The only way NOW the fuel can be rapidly replaced is by a massive effort to ramp up coal to liquid fuel production. The co2 issue is solvable using several technologies.
See TIPS + CANMET
We can not afford not to do this. If we do not
our way of life and economy will be ruined and we will not be able to afford convert to alternate energy sources .