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What the banks are not flush with is creditworthy customers, there being a deep recession and all that.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 11:30:35 AM EST
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Surely there must be some management team ready to turn a functioning company into a bloated, debt-ridden, zombie pyramid scheme that can create massive layoffs and economic dislocation as it collapses after a couple of years of desperate efforts marked by sleazy business practices, outright fraud and wholesale bribery?
by rootless2 on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 11:47:17 AM EST
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Predicting SCO's Actions Post Bankruptcy

'It starts to hint that this is more a renaming, taking in some new management who seem to have financial expertise, and SCO keeps skipping along as unXis, with the dangerous litigation spun off safely into a litigation troll.'


Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?
by budr on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:11:45 PM EST
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rootless2:
Surely there must be some management team ready to turn a functioning company into a bloated, debt-ridden, zombie pyramid scheme that can create massive layoffs and economic dislocation as it collapses after a couple of years of desperate efforts marked by sleazy business practices, outright fraud and wholesale bribery?

I'm in.

Anyone else?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:21:39 PM EST
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Definitely.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:39:38 PM EST
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Hey I've definitely got the bank statements to prove I have the financial skills for such a job.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:58:08 PM EST
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We're set. Now we just need a banker or two.
by rootless2 on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 01:08:20 PM EST
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preferably one who's been stress tested.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 01:18:47 PM EST
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Maybe those guys who did the Amherst Financial deal are ready to talk.
by rootless2 on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 01:43:31 PM EST
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can't help you, they're all in prison.

oh, wait...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 03:37:34 PM EST
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Surely there must be some management team ready to turn a functioning company into a bloated, debt-ridden, zombie pyramid scheme...

But, but it will be GROWTH,     even if it is malignant.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:29:04 PM EST
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