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Right now the dow is down another 400 points. This is ugly. I woudn't say I'm losing my shirt, but I am taking a painful hit.



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Do you work in investment banking?



tombi123 said:
Do you work in investment banking?

 

No, just an ordinary investor.



Man. How many insurance companies and banks are left to bail out?



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appolose said:
Man. How many insurance companies and banks are left to bail out?

 

Until people realize that they are footing the bills.



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The market is in a crunch. But 1 good thing is that oil is below $100.



                       

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FishyJoe said:
tombi123 said:
Do you work in investment banking?

 

No, just an ordinary investor.

man, you should take your money out.

WaMu is in trouble so they hav 13 month CD at 5% right now.

as long as it's under $100,000, you should be safe with WaMu.

 



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At least we are not Russia.

The Russian markets are halted for the second time in two days - this time "indefinitely" - after the index falls 10% within an hour, on the back of a 17% drop the previous day. Apparently Vlad and Medvedev are figuring out the hard way about what happens when you invade foreign lands and start seizing private firms - people say "no mas!" and run for the door in a disastrous cascade. Foreign capital has effectively withdrawn from the Russian marketplace, coming to the conclusion that it is radically unsafe to be there and extinguishing liquidity.



Expect more financial firms' stocks to either drop severely or go belly up within the next few weeks.



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