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Q: Cramer was openly not a big fan of NY Fed President Geithner. Since he wasn't a
fan and he's a former money manager; I would expect current money managers to
think along the same lines as Cramer. If that were the case, why the rally on
Friday after the new Treasury Secretary was named? Was the market just
basically looking for any reason to jump?
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 8 answers - 103 views
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A: In general Geithner is highly regarded by those on the street. Who knows if it had
anything to do with Friday's green day. more
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Q: I thought it was a little crazy for the "Not so" Big 3 auto companies to send
their CEOs to DC last week since they're bleeding so much cash. I found it to
be even much more crazy after I read an article on forbes.com earlier today.
The private jet used by GM to fly Wagoner to DC cost them company $20,000 or 300
hours of labor on a GM car. Are you kidding me? The three guys couldn't suck
it up for a few hours and flown together or even better, a video conference...
I agree that something needs to be done because of the number of jobs that could
be lost if the auto industry goes under but come on, $20K for a private plane.
Also read another article this week that stated something about companies
requiring their CEOs to fly on private company aircraft for safety purposes. Do
you really think the average citizen knows who in the hell any CEOs are? What
kind of safety concerns should these guys have?
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 4 answers - 89 views
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A: come on if I am ceo I want my own plane. Ford is the strongest ot of them all and will
survive. Why dont they just sell more divisions and cut faster like all the other companys
are doing more
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Q: I know you should pay more attention to things during a down market but my God,
I don't know how much more of this I can stand. I thought I was using pretty
good scales on my purchases. Buy, wait for a drop of a buck or two or three and
then buy more. Crap, now you can buy a $20 stock and set your next trigger
point at $14 or $15. This is so depressing.

I'm afraid to pull the trigger anymore when one of my stocks hits what would
have been a buying level. I know that I can probably wait another 2 hours and
get it a few % points lower.

Don't mean to rant. Just looked at my account for the first time in a couple
hours and almost puked a little.
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 8 answers - 75 views
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A: I feel ya. I have been just sitting around waiting to buy, but I keep moving my triggers
down because thing just keep failing, an also I got in to early on a couple stocks
previously and am not paying for it. I think the only up side is that at these prices I
will be able to averge down so low that it will not take as long to get back into the
green. more
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Q: Talk of further rate cuts??? They've only got 100 bps to go. Then what? Are
banks going to earn interest for taking out loans? Not too many bullets left in
Uncle Ben's gun.
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 4 answers - 34 views
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A: yup we r in for some pain more
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Q: http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/king-of-the-hill-new-way-to-make-money/XP04eHN
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Take a look 38 seconds in... Mike Judge's version of Cramer...
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 3 answers - 115 views
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A: wow...target marketing via cartoons.
http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/king-of-the-hill-a-bill-full-of-dollars/oKOC5EoH3u8WLbPA
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Q: Anyone catch Cramer, um, I mean the "Dow Genius" on King of the Hill tonight?
Funny stuff...
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 1 answers - 141 views
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A: No, but be sure and post it when it hits youtube. more
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Q: I think it was Blitz asking a few days ago about the hedge fund selling being
over or not. Here's a little something from an article I read on Forbes.com.

Hedge fund selling has been a major contributor to the decline in equity markets
in the last few weeks. According to Louise Purtle, the chief strategist at
research firm CreditSights, hedge funds face another $550 billion of selling to
meet heavy redemption requests.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/13/banking-lending-credit-biz-cx_lm_1113leverage.h
tml?partner=yahootix
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 5 answers - 58 views
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A: Thanks for sharing this very good article !! more
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Q: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced a major shift in the rescue
fund: That the government will back away from buying troubled mortgage assets
from firms and use the money instead for a second round of capital injections
into financial institutions that would match private funds.

Wasn't the whole purpose of this $700B to buy up these troubled assets? I keep
hearing that the banks don't want to lend the $250B that was given to them
already, so they're wanting to give them more. I'm fine with the bailout if it
serves a purpose and helps things but I don't see where it's doing anything.
Looks like the banks are just padding those balance sheets instead of thawing
the frozen credit mkts.
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 6 answers - 121 views
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A: although there has been many complaints about creeping socialism, what has actually
happened is the opposite: privatization of the US Treasury in an easy victory for
capitalism. more
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Q: "However, a long line of other industries are hoping the government will decide
to help them as well. Insurance companies, automakers, hedge funds and
foreign-owned banks are all making appeals to be included in the rescue package,
contending that they need assistance as well."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081028/financial_meltdown.html?.v=11

Why would anyone try to rescue the hedge funds? Didn't they play a huge role in
beating the crap out of stocks? Aren't they the ones that don't want to be
governed? They don't want to report anything that they do but by God they don't
mind at all looking for the govt to throw them some cash.
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 2 answers - 31 views
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A: No Skee, I'm not voting for an incumbent in my state. I'll be voting for the Democrat
running against him as well as Barack. Not sure why my upcoming votes have anything to do
with the original post about hedge funds wanting in on the bailout though. If the govt
wants to help the banks, that's cool with me but the hedge funds can go jack up a stump. more
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Q: I transfer cash from my bank account to my brokerage each month on the 15th.
This makes calculating my monthly returns a little confusing. I use excel to
keep track of how I'm doing because TD Ameritrade doesn't offer anything
helpful. Does anyone have a useful tool or way of tracking their performance?
Taking the ending balance, removing the beginning balance and monthly deposit
and then dividing by the beginning balance doesn't truly represent an accurate
measure for gains (well, of late monthly losses) because I have that monthly
cash flow coming in. I use excel for a living so I thought it would be pretty
simple to come up with something useful but I'm having some trouble. Hoping a
pickr or two might be able to help out. Thanks.
Asked by D.C. - 1 months ago - 3 answers - 113 views
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A: Ameritrade has a fabulous "gainskeeper" - you pick the time period and whether to detail
or summarize Could not be better.
That, and downloading to quicken.

That said...I'm not sure why you want the detail as you laid it out. You know how much you
put in and I'd think you simply want to know gains and losses and track it both by stock
(lot issues are cake for quicken and decent for Ameritrade) and overall value. more
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