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Energy Firms Should Look to U.S. Shale - Barron's

There has to be a paradigm shift, we need less oil not more. If not we lose big time.
Aug 31 15:58 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Obama's Green Promise

Pickens has the best idea and we shouldn't be using natural gas to generate electricity we should be using wind, solar, and Syngas that is derived from coal. Pickens has the only near term solution.
Aug 31 14:46 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
The Option Arm Triplets: Dead Banks Walking

The buy long any bank stock under the current market conditions would make you a totally "UNREASONABLE GUY". Don't believe what you see on TV.
Aug 29 15:19 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
FDIC's Watch List of 'Problem Banks' Keeps Growing

Thanks to Richard Wending excellent web site.

Dave
Aug 29 15:06 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Grab Your Shorts, the Tide Has Turned

Jim Rogers has it right we need to dissolve the Federal Reserve to save our country. The interference and manipulation in the stock and commodities markets are out of control. This is only putting off the pain. Email your congressman and senator and tell them that if they don't reel in the Mr. Bernake and Paulson. The pain that they will feel is at the polls. Remember that this is an election year. Please remember to vote!
Aug 27 17:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Individuals Could Win On Fannie, Freddie Preferreds

Greenspan is the only on who has a reasonable plan.
Aug 24 14:12 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Individuals Could Win On Fannie, Freddie Preferreds

The need to be nationalized after the common and preferred stock goes to zero.
Aug 24 13:40 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
The Flawed Housing Bill: How We Will Pay for It

E-mail your congressman and senator and tell them to support the Greenspan plan!
Aug 24 13:31 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Real Estate Bubble Is Only in 4 States: CA, FL, NV, AZ

Are you being paid by the U.S Government?
Aug 24 13:28 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Fannie, Freddie: What Paulson Learned From the Pentagon

It is sad to say but an 84 year old retire has a better plan that the setting Fed Chairman Bernake! Write your congressman and senator and tell them you want to go with the Greenspan plan.
Aug 24 13:27 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Looming Financial Catastrophe: A Real Inconvenient Truth

Human beings do learn from their mistakes if the government doesn't bail them out. Just say no! Write your congressman and senator. This is an election year and tell them not to throw one single penny down the deep dark holes called GSE's.
Aug 24 13:22 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Fannie, Freddie: Beyond the Balance Sheets

Let the common and preferred stock go to zero and have the U.S. Government back the mortgage part only. Take them into receivership and create a resolute trust to accept the foreclosures like was done in the last S&L meltdown. These are publicly traded companies and deserve to go broke. The reason that moral hazard continues is that government backstops the losers rather that letting them fail, like should happen in a free market. Write your congressman and senator to make sure that taxpayer money is not spent to bailout these failed companies. This is an election year and think of the future generation debt if these company's are bailed out with taxpayers money. God bless America!
Aug 24 13:17 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Whose Freddie Investment Thesis Is Right?

This is the Wikipedia definition of the ownership of the Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE)s is: "Some of the GSEs, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are privately owned but publicly chartered; others, such as the Federal Home Loan Banks, are owned by the corporations that use their services. Their lenders grant them favorable interest rates, and the buyers of their securities offer them high prices, as the implicit involvement of the Federal government gives them a sense of financial security.

In fact, GSE securities carry no explicit government guarantee."

The only thing that is guarantied by the U.S. Government is that the loans will be stood behind.

The idea that common and preferred share holders of these GSE's should be made whole is absurd!!! Anyone who bought the publicly traded stocks didn't want to pay the U. S. Government some of their money when the GSE's went up. I assure you that the taxpayers are not going to allow owners of common or preferred stock in the GSE's recover a dime. People are writing their congressmen and senators daily about this subject and with the elections coming up soon they don't want a real blood letting at the polls.

Its sad to say but even as old a Greenspan is he at least has a clue. His plan to take over the GSE's is the most likely course of action. If Secretary Paulson uses taxpayer money to bailout shareholders of the GSE's there will be hell to pay!
Aug 20 18:42 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Fannie, Freddie Shareholders Will Be Left Holding the Bag - Barron's

The March 8th article was probably just as relevant today as it was then. The financials are not at a bottom or anywhere close and the GSE's will fail and be taken over by the U. S. Government. No change!
Aug 18 14:18 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Profiting from the Pickens Plan: FAN, Clean Fuels, Fuel Systems

This is the only short term answer available. I think that we should be buliding wind turbines at the rate, which we produced tanks in WWII. I just returned from Thailand and they are already retrofitting cars to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). In just a few years and during a political crisis they have build an infrastructure to support the fueling of CNG modified cars, truck, and buses. They have at least one CNG refiling station for each province. This would be like having a CNG refiling station in every county in Texas. I really don't understand why the US just sits and hopes oil will go to $ 8 a gallon.

This will work if the government provides the subsidies to retrofit the current vehicles and the price of Natural is maintained at a significantly lower cost than gasoline no matter what the old companies say, even if the government has to regulate it.

US and Foreign manufactures are already building new cars with the CNG option in Thailand. This would be a easy retool of assembly lines and would apply to car, trucks and buses.

Whats not to like?
Aug 04 16:02 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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