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Re: I'm no finance guy but (none / 0)

... would allow banks to shovel bad debt off their balance sheets and send them back to business as usual.

there is something VERY WRONG here!

"So your house almost completely burned down because of all of those oily rags in your garage? Well, the fire dept. put the blaze out, so go back to business as usual." What? !!!!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 04:13:31 PM EST
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Re: I'm no finance guy but (none / 1)

As long as that means people don't get foreclosed on their houses...

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 04:19:39 PM EST
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Re: I'm no finance guy but (4.00 / 2)

Can I haz optimismz?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 05:07:55 PM EST
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Re: I'm no finance guy but (none / 1)

Surely you mean that as snark?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 05:13:54 PM EST
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