Slog - Comments on The Next Stage: Exploiting Investors http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors Capitalism unlimited: After the single biggest wave of credit-related write-downs in Wall Street history, more than $20 billion and growing, it's investors who are holding the risk. For example, Merrill Lynch & Co. on Friday announced a $5.5 billion charge, the Street's biggest, and immediately investors sent the stock up 2.5%. Merrill simply followed the path laid down by Citigroup Inc., which wrote off $3.3 billion and Deutsche Bank AG, $940 million. All saw their stock rise after dropping the write-down bomb. The bet is that the bigger the write-down now, the less these institutions will have to write down... Copyright 2008 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:04:19 -0800 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:17:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by anners hah! I didn't have to go further than the title to find a typo in this post. It's so big!

]]> anners http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822227 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:25:57 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I'd like to send you 'enough' rope. Sensitively, Mr. Poe.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822241 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:32:37 -0800 Comment by MC Confused Sell me enough rope and I'll rescue the black people you threw in the well you Stalinist racetards!

]]> MC Confused http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822253 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822253 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:50:18 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Actually, the REIT fund in TIAA-CREF did a lot better in the last quarter than all the other mutual funds.

Just sayin.

Fear causes us to do strange things.

Don't live in fear.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822275 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:02:52 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder Lenin's just pissed because he's too bronzed in Fremont to get anything other than Taco Del Mar.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822277 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822277 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:04:51 -0800 Comment by Brad The reason their stock went up is because a significant chunk of uncertainty has been removed. Investors don't like uncertainty, so the prices went up a bit.

]]> Brad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822279 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:05:08 -0800 Comment by can you say debasement We SHOULD be in fear. The dollar is its weakest in years and Bernanke is perfectly content driving it in to the ground with more rate cuts. inflation is happening. capital flight is happening. The mainstream media doesn't care because the Dow keeps going up.

The party is over and everyone is ready to pass out but Bernanke and his buddies keep scoring more blow. When the energy finally runs out, things are going to crash HARD. The hangover from this little bender will be felt for YEARS.

Karl at Market Ticker has a good handle on what's happening. He's a good read.

]]> can you say debasement http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822320 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822320 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:24:13 -0800 Comment by James Hetfield Click here to get a free XBox360 for ever and ever and ever.

]]> James Hetfield http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822330 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:34:32 -0800 Comment by Jimmy Charles, You're brilliant! If only the prediction holds...

]]> Jimmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822332 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:36:01 -0800 Comment by Jimmy's Conscience If only you could hold it for him, fag.

]]> Jimmy's Conscience http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822387 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822387 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:12:43 -0800 Comment by torrentprime Hmmm.
You know what? I'll bet the government could fix this.

]]> torrentprime http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822414 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822414 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:33:37 -0800 Comment by Congresspants The only thing the government can fix is elections.

]]> Congresspants http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822427 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:43:09 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave if this is bullshit why arent you shorting the stocks, or buying long puts or short call options?

the investor isnt being duped unless the investor was already a dope.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822438 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:58:10 -0800 Comment by Reverend Careface Yeah fuckers. And when your wife is screwing someone else it's nobody's fault but you and your tuna can of a dick!

]]> Reverend Careface http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822472 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:19:08 -0800 Comment by Zen Koan For Cheapskates Suddenly I realized that 100 years from now, the world's last 2 scholars will be trying to understand mhen and why people started following rules.

That's when I the word "Pleasurecraft" on a piece of paper and buried it under the WAMU tower.

]]> Zen Koan For Cheapskates http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822482 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822482 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:26:50 -0800 Comment by JessB This is like the comments thread from another planet.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822533 News Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:17:17 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave The investor has many ways to act and digest information, and honestly only an idiot would look at rising stock prices and thing "I NEED TO GET IN ON THAT ACTION" without looking at SMA, EMA, Fast Stochastics, Bollinger Bands, and the underlying business, both fundamentally and in the news.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_next_stage_expoiting_investors#c822943 News Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:17:27 -0800