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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:26 AM Original message |
Democrats Hold The Line Against Wall Street Derivatives Lobbying |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. Hope they continue to hold the line! Amazingly, somebody unrec'd this! |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
30. That's because we let trolls unrec. n/t |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
38. Probably Tim Geithner. nt |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:57 PM Response to Reply #38 |
61. +1 heh heh heh |
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hay rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #38 |
62. But, but...he's a Democrat. nt |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. Derivatives should be outlawed |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
18. But how do you feel about integrals? |
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happygoluckytoyou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. IN A RELATED STORY large TEABAGGING monster fights against the radical idea of transparency |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:38 AM Response to Reply #18 |
65. I hope this has some bite. |
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wizstars (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. NO. that's idiotic |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. what's idiotic, in my opinion, is shuffling papers around and |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. So you don't think businesses should be allowed to hedge their risk? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:29 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. It they want to take risk, fine. But as it works now, we take the risk, they take the profit |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. straw man argument. Why not just answer the question? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. I answered the question: No |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. No private risk, especially |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:00 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. I'm not talking about taxpayer guarantees, but wholly private risk. |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:40 PM Response to Reply #31 |
46. How can prices be insured? How can Risk be a commodity? This is hogwash and hyperbole. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:45 PM Response to Reply #46 |
52. Simple (2 examples inside) |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #52 |
67. Thanks for the explanation. This is the simplest value, but taking risks on the fall of the economy |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
45. Commodity trading have never crashed the economy and caused criminal behavior in the financial world |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. No way. I support regulation, but outlawing them is absurd |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. the effects of derivatives are obvious now that people have gotten rich on the risks involved and |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:49 PM Response to Reply #47 |
53. you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
55. Its like pure roulette |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. Wow, it takes some serious balls to still lobby for no regulation on |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. OMG! Such courage and humbleness. |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
48. Agreed! |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. excuse me? |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I've got a side of beef, a butchered pig, and two egg-laying hens |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. ... and through the magic of derivatives, you can inflate your pig to be worth $2.67 billion |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. LOL |
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kag (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. I'll do your laundry for a month in return for... |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
56. "barter" with you doctor?! |
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Beavker (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. Yet the Pugs cry about the administration bail out of these very firms. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
10. Go 'Bama! |
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paulkienitz (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. whenver I think Obama's getting all corporate, he proves he's... only half corporate |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Well, yeah, I know. |
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Ed76638 (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. This fucking nab Obama has FINALLY got it right. |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Would entertain me |
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1American (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
36. your language, madame or sir |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Bull shit! |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. I don't think you meant to reply to me. nt |
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Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 08:26 PM Response to Reply #36 |
51. WTF? |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
58. uh, yeah......... |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. Wow!!! Until now I thought the only thing Dems would hold the line against was holding the line! |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Obama and the Democrats are getting ready to obsolutely... |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
16. Obama will hold the line until Lieberman whines like a 2 year old |
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Pharaoh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. K&R! n/t |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. Screw 'em...they tried to play nice with the pukes on health care and they fucked us. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. I hope so |
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gtar100 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. It can never be asked enough - what is wrong with these republicans? |
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Stellar (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
22. It's On now! |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. Well they should know |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
27. Will put the economy at risk? Which economy? |
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JohnWxy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. RECOMMENDED! |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
37. No bipartisanship on this one! |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
40. The depravity of republicans knows no bounds. n/t |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
43. They already put the economy at risk by allowing derivatives. The party of hypocrits |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
50. Like all things of this nature: We'll see. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
54. I don't know a single person in finance.. |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
57. rewrite of the rules of finance will put the economy at risk. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
59. They are holding America hostage. |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
60. The whole point was that NOT writing these rules in the first place DID PUT OUR ECONOMY AT RISK! |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:28 AM Response to Original message |
63. We wouldn't want the economy to be at risk, would we? |
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pjt7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:42 AM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Congress better follow |
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fatbuckel (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
66. Without all that extra spending money,they`ll have to cut back on Republican payoffs... |
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