It turns out that there's a lot of interlinks through the financial system.
Ya think?
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
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Ginger - Sep 20, 2008 7:29:54 am PDT #6118 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
sj - Sep 20, 2008 7:31:28 am PDT #6119 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
“It turns out that there's a lot of interlinks through the financial system. The system had grown to a point where a lot of people were dependent upon each other and a collapse of one part of the system wouldn't just affect a part of the financial markets, it would affect ... capacity to borrow money, to buy a house or to finance a college loan. It'd affect the ability of a small business to get credit. In other words, the systemic risk was significant, and it required a significant response. And Congress understands that, and we'll work to get things done as quickly as possible.”
This is a surprise? boggles
askye - Sep 20, 2008 7:39:18 am PDT #6120 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
blinks
cocks her head
blinks again
... I just have ... no words. This is why he was a lousy business man and rotten president. If he wasn't surrounding himself with yes men, read the newspaper, and paid attention to the world around him maybe the government would have figured this out BEFORE everyone else did and it got to a crisis. I want a president who can actually think.
Okay maybe I do have words.
I'm going to watch Owen and go look at cute overload and save my sanity.
JZ - Sep 20, 2008 7:41:04 am PDT #6121 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
In an attempt to stave off the COMPLETE AND UTTER DESPAIR induced by Bush's thoughtful precis on the current international financial crisis, I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.
And now I have to go back and spend a few hours with Owen trumpeting with the marching band to wash the Bush bleakness out of my brain.
sj - Sep 20, 2008 7:46:50 am PDT #6122 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
In an attempt to stave off the COMPLETE AND UTTER DESPAIR induced by Bush's thoughtful precis on the current international financial crisis, I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.
Best cure for presidential idiocy ever! What a smile Matilda has! It's amazing because whenever she is in a picture with Hec, she looks so much like him, but when she is in a picture with you, she looks so much like you.
Barb - Sep 20, 2008 7:56:46 am PDT #6123 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.
Oh dear me, that IS just one of the cutest pics ever. And the Owen cuteness is killing me ded as well.
Shrubwit I would just like to beat senseless with a flaming spear. askye, you going to the game tonight?
Gadget_Girl - Sep 20, 2008 8:02:55 am PDT #6124 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.
Ded of cute, again. This IS one of the cutest pics, ever.
Burrell - Sep 20, 2008 8:03:10 am PDT #6125 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
hee! Love the hairdo.
Typo Boy - Sep 20, 2008 8:16:57 am PDT #6126 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also, as usual even when Bush decides to take action he gets it wrong.
Duncan Black (Atrios) and Dean Baker (two very smart economists) make the same point. The whole bailout is being structured on the premise that this is a liquidity problem - that the assets really are worth close to what was loaned on them, that if the Government buys them at close to valuation, this will stop people from panicking. The problem is that there are not just a few problem loans. It was not just a matter of subprime - that was just the canary in the coal mine. Loans are outstanding economy wide with a balance far greater than the value of the assets that secure them. Buying up a trillion in financial toxic waste at a multiple of its value won't solve the problem.
askye - Sep 20, 2008 8:36:34 am PDT #6127 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I am going to the game! I'm excited too. Since it's a night game (which all football games should be) and a team that will actually test us.
hmmm... I should go do laundry.
Matilda is the cutest!!
I got an Evan update -- he's losing his hair on top so he's got an old man baldspot going on, and the nightgowns that were so cute and fit just right on him when I visited now go to his knees. Except for the smallest one, it's more of a miniskirt.