Recent content by Greg in VA

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/01/with-fred-thomp.html Hard to tell did California State GOP senator Tom McClintock endorse RP? Hopefully some of our RP Golden Staters can encourage him to endorse.

IGNORE ---> the cure for the menthol patch

Seconded!

YOU do over react, and after looking at the main website for Ron Paul, I really wish someone would delete your comments. Incredibly ego-centric for you to whine on the main website about how if this or that demand of yours is not met than you will not vote for RP. Did you not read every word...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0124chapmanjan24,1,1927312.column The article above is rather interesting regarding the surge. Of most interest is a quote of Iraqi government officials indicating they will not be able to handle internal security until 2012, and handle...

I think the more likely scenario is overleveraged hedge funds being forced to sell off assets to make margin calls.

I was not aware of that, I briefly recall reading that one of the credit agencies was considering a downgrade.

The real stunner those is AMBAC up 75%, when in fact this should be a dead man walking stock, hopefully a bunch of bully-boy speculators get hammered tomorrow. AMBAC is rumored to have it's AAA credit rating in jeoporday which would be a death sentece for a bond insurer.

Possibly a dead cat bounce. I suspect that the early drop was a sell off by over leveraged hedge funds, someone who has a pretty good feel for economics has this same opinion http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ passage below Leverage Continues To Unwind Market action now suggests...

bump - for over-reaction suppression

We have reached the "Minsky Moment"...this is everyone's homework assignment in Austrian economics, google Minsky Moment, or wiki it. If I recall correctly I believe the good Dr. has used the phrase.

bump...the only greater priority is those of you who are actively canvassing.

This point, and I believe it was addressed in anther post is why there needs to be a grass roots effort to define the problem in laymen's terms so that RP can explain it during the upcoming NBC debate. He did a great job of this when he cited the WSJ article about oil being priced in gold. If...

This is so true, and a sad state of affairs. I like things a lot better when venture capitalist were more properly called 'junk bond' traders, probably not quite the right term but certainly closer to the mark. This is just the begining of something really ugly. To use a baseball analogy...

Everyone needs to get a rapid financial education, I would strongly recommend this blog http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ interestingly enough there is a recent post about a panic in the UK regarding a property fund. Here in the US we have something similar were CDO (collaterallized...