Congress: I Dare You to Destroy the Economy
Congress doesn’t have the balls to let the banking system fall by the wayside. I choose to believe, well connected/evil men, like Warren Buffett, know something most of you idiots do not—which is: the bailout is going to pass. Congress is just putting on a show for us television box watchers. Do not think, for one second, any of those asshats will risk tanking the stock market and the economy, while most economists say such a plan is needed.
With that being said, I like my chances buying dips, despite insane LIBOR rates. At the present, there is uncertainty. With a certain amount of ambiguity in the air, one could make nice sum of gold coins, via getting on the right side of the trade.
It’s pretty simple. Either we get a monstrous government investment in the housing market or we get Armageddon. For once, I want to bet with the g-men.
With my money, I like Citigroup Inc. [[C]] , [[UYG]] , Walter Industries, Inc. [[WLT]] and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. [[FCX]] right here, right now. Also, I want to be long beaten down tech. The ‘Sick Steve Trade’ is over, as Apple Inc. [[AAPL]] saddles itself in the 120′s. Short cut the bitch and own the whole space, via [[ROM]] .
Finally, oil looks good; but is constantly tricking people. I already own oil, so I will not add more here. However, I will buy coal. I can always make room for some filthy, yet delicious coal, via Peabody Energy Corporation [[BTU]] and WLT.
59 Responses to Congress: I Dare You to Destroy the Economy
Fly, what about POT? doesn’t that look interesting here?
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Of course nobody wants a falling stock market and a shitty economy…the question is, do they believe or rather understand the consequences of no action?
50%/50%…just because credit market is telling otherwise.
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I agree with Fly and sold my SKF this morning.
(which probably means its a great time to load up on SKF)
I’m with flymeister on this one. Chuck big mouth schumer who caused a run on a bank by being an idiot, Charlie doesn’t file tax returns Rangel, nancy the moron Pelosi and Barney male prostitute john Frank are not going to walk away.
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Why do you like Citigroup?
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What’s your problem with Armageddon?
Just because that pretty boy Affleck couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag…
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Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we’ll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will, because
I sure could use a vacation from this
See you down in Arizona Bay.
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Armageddon: I know who wins.
I also like AAPL. Those new iPhones are divine!
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Precious metals & their stocks agree with The Fly; the bailout will commence after our country’s fine representatives finish their, for show, ritual bellyaching in front of their constituents.
Loosers , nearly every one of them.
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Stick with the hard assets, asshat. Get the fuck out of banks right now.
Are you crazy… this is like a forward pass in the days of Bronko Nagurski –
“Three things can happen, two of them bad.”
In this case, it’s more like “ten things can happen, nine of them bad.”
Think about it… even if the Congress defies the more than 50-1 “against” pressure flooding their offices here, do you really think this’ll set up as a plus for the banks?
No fucking way. Your equity is toast, no matter what. It’s either going “away” or it’s going to the taxpayer in the form of egregious warrants.
No other way it’s going to happen cochise.
Stay with warm, dusky, filthy coal, but GTFO of the fractional lending retardos.
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Not to be a complete hypocrite ovah heah — I do own RBS and Citi preferreds as a hedge.
My RBS preferreds have more than doubled since purchase on Friday.
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Hey!
No giving “The Fly” financial advice on this holy site.
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No, you;re not a hypocrite. You’re just a malcontent.
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Realistically speaking the bailout may look a lot different then what we have imagined, or there is even a possibility that it may not happen. It is highly unpopular by a large # of senators, and some parts seem unconstitutional(in that some parts seem to do away with judicial oversight). In addition, I think that because it is so close to election time (35 days?) a lot of people don’t want to do anything to offend their voting public.
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so i’m staying the hell away from financials. but great call on apple btw.
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This is one jumpy market.
Someone needs to go pop a balloon on the floor and see what happens to the DOW.
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Nothing personal Jake, but you seem to be a very unhappy, miserable prick. Keep your own stupid fucking positions and leave the flymesiter the fuck alone. he knows what he’s talking about whereas you don’t.
And that goes for the other miserable shithead too, Mr. Anton Cigar(ette)
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Banks are cool again. They are like the new black, minus the gay models.
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Juice, do remember this pic. It’s playing out exactly how one would expect. INADWTIC hit $55 Monday. Too bad I only saved this pic and not the url.
http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bbs3ab1.jpg
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Jake is an ally of “The Fly.” He just has a very rough, Irishman in Long Island way about him.
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Sorry to inform you that our votes do not really count, if they don’t want them to. This is all by design you muskrats.
Go read the will of Cecil Rhodes or some other shit.
Welcome the amero.
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IMHO, they’ve been risking it all along.
Major longs (still) AUY, HK, PCX, SKF. Still hoping to take profits there and go into cash mode.
I think need to hedge my energy plays more. I have a bit of DUG, maybe not enough. Does anyone know of an inverse ETF specifically aimed at coal?
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Long Island huh? Which exit? My bet is it’s 61.
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I am intrigued with UYG & QLD.
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Sorry jkae
I’m kinda miserable myself at the moment. the piece of shit Australian government, socialist, no nothing, lowlife tramps banned all forms of short selling except of course for the market makers which means the scum at macquarie bank (like a smaller greedier version of GS) can short to their hearts desire while their shit stock that deserves to be zero gets protected.
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Is SDS broken here? SPX up .5% and SDS -6.3%…
Any ideas?
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No way this doesn’t pass. Congres will bitch and moan for days but in the end they all know it must pass. All their bitching is a function of:
1. They are all in fact bitches
2. They need to be able to tell the voters they fought hard but in the end had to pass it for the good of the nation.
I love C here but have been hedging just in case.
The Vix is right were it was last Wednesday … Thor’s Day and Friday were +800 in the Dow.
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Interestingly, the following did not come from a Nigerian IP address, but from somewhere in Washington, DC….
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Cubs – you focusing on the CRB ?
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Careful. I’ll be around until about the middle of Oct.
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You’re just a malcontent.
Not true, I’m extraordinarily content.
I just don’t want to see a friend flush a bunch of freshly printed dough down the toidy.
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Hey “j” — whomever the fuck you are, besides the typical asshat newbie that drops by this place to add his 1.7 cents after inflation and then disappears down the memory hole, do me a favor….
Go fuck a pixie stick, eh?
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Hey gang, I laid bare the whole Anglo-American power establishment back in the ’60s in my epic work, “Tragedy and Hope”…
Good for me that long-winded thousand-page tome is all but unreadable or I wouldn’t have lived through the Nixon administration.
As am matter of fact, I really had to dumb it down for Clinton to get it when he was at Georgetown.
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Main Street watches Wall Street dance for money:
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Sorry, no embed feature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oqmhVNk3Hg
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Never mind about SDS. It went ex today $4.04 I need better tools. Fly when is the PPT coming out. HELP!
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MacQuarrie (owns everything) is another great short.
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C’mon Jake, give us a break…
This market has paralyzed us, reducing us to helplessly viewing the ticker and posting semi-insightful and semi-humorous posts on iBankCoin.
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Hey TAN. If you’re paralyzed go see a doctor. You’re not very funny either.
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Broker A: You got any opinion on the Commie Food Co – WBD ?
Its been cut in half.
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Commodities are Gay.
Donny buys 3k, UYG @ $19.
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Jake and Fly, the Abbott & Costello of first tier blogging!
Gotta luv it.
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Of course it will pass. A huge spending bill just weeks away from an election is a great way for your average congresscritter to add some pork. Oh the earmarks on this one are gonna be something!
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MacQuarrie (owns everything) is another great short.
Yea jake, but the coksuckers made it a criminal offense to short this week.
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How it got started.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
Bruce — I’ve been meaning to bring that up… (WBD) I thought it was good for a trade the other day, but now it may be becoming Chernobyl irradiated again..
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(I figure Donny’s gotta fuck up one of these days, right?)
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Bull,
Appreciate the flattery, but I am a mere malcontented commentator. Fly’s the one putting out the effort, ovah heah.
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Filthy yet delicious coal… crunch… mmmm that’s good.
Banks are the new black, minus the models. LMAO today.
Jake is my bud and a nice man.
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thanks Jake … I think I am gonna slowly leg into Chernobyl and hope I don’t get nuked
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Good Leave It To Beaver episode coming up. Wally gets Mary Ellen pregnant and she wants to abort. Ward and June are upset.
Not really.
Wally graduates from Mayfield HS today.
Maybe WBD will start exporting milk products to China? Think about it.
Or will they implement PETA’s new idea:
http://www.wnbc.com:80/news/17539627/detail.html
My husband sent me that link with the comment ‘this will make people buy ice cream’. I think he was being sarcastic.
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Terrance makes a good (and godly) point:
It is highly unpopular by (sic) a large # of senators, and some parts seem unconstitutional(in that some parts seem to do away with judicial oversight).
Check these fuggin “provisions” out:
From Section 1 of the current Bailout Bill: “…(The bailout provides for) entering into contracts, including contracts for services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, without regard to any other provision of law regarding public contracts.”
WTF?? 1,000 years, give or take of contract law, out the fuggin window?
And we’re going to sign this fucker in less than a week??
And then there’s this beaut:
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
What in the bleeding FUCK?? Are you kidding me? I mean, I laugh at the “Comrade Paulson” stuff too, but this is fucking ceding a DICTATORSHIP!
Sorry, this is not mere grounds for “malcontentishness.”
It’s pitchforks and torches time, folks… time to go after the Frankenstein monster.
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Bennet Sedacca
11:24:59 AM
No positions in stocks mentioned.
Stocks and credit drift further and further apart!
The credit market is getting eviscerated. Period.
Whether it is corporates, preferreds or hybrids, spreads continue to blow out.
The Goldman (GS) preferred I bought the other day at 11.5%? Gonzo. Thank you Warren.
Don’t let the stock market fool you. The credit market is imploding.
If you don’t believe me, take a look at the TED spread below, the difference between three month Treasuries and 3 month Eurodollars.
https://admin.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Aug2007/File/Sept082/sg2008092439516.gif
The credit market has been a great leading indicator for stocks lately.
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Fil Zucchi
11:15:13 AM
Position in WFR
On Board
I looked at MEMC Electronics (WFR) in the low $40’s – after one of its latest disappointments – and passed on it.
What worried me was a discussion on one of the conference calls suggesting that despite the growth in demand, rising supply would put pressure on prices. That’s the dynamic we saw in the flash market and we saw what ultimately happened to Sandisk (SNDK) stock. I tend to agree with Prof. Udall, that if the legislation regarding tax credits for solar projects is passed – and it looks like it will be – it should go a long way toward stimulating demand to a point where it diminishes price risks. Combine that with a stock price in the low $30’s and I’m on board at $31.50 and looking to add lower.
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Mmmm…. delicious black anthracite, lettuce and tomato samiches, with just a little bit of mayonnaise for flavor.
NRP here, for your grandma.
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Looks like I am going to lose the distinction of being the most unconstitutional bill ever passed this week.
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Poor old Patriot Act… well, you probably still have the distinction of “most universally unread.”
Although this sucker’ll be coming a close second, I bet.
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It is always fun watching Ron Paul go at the Fed Chairman. His major point was the same thing I fear in this plan which is price fixing.
What is the value of toxic paper? Inject $700B and you have a total BS market at taxpayer expense.
Sure Dr. Paul votes against a bailout but the rest of congress has their head up their ass when it comes to economics. You know that this shit passes in under a week. The market will likely rip to the upside.
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