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1. Anonymous
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   Maybe I've been reading too much Daniel Silva or Vince Flynn mystery fiction, but I think it is conce[vable the U.S. and the rest of the world may be the victim of a brilliantly executed financial sabotage. One could argue that Al Qaeda or Iran or Putin with the aid ofateam of renegade investment bankers knew which string to pull to unravel the big overleveraged banks after their greed and stupidity put them in great jeopardy. After things started to go bad with the help of a Bush hating press they launched a massive Bear market play to exacerbate the chaos.

   They ccould make a colossal fortune but shorting the market and buying puts on the banks if they were intimately familiar with the vulnerabilities.

   This financial chaos weakens the country. What if they followed up with a Manhattan subway attack. Scary.

   Any thoughts?

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Anonymous
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   I agree, It seemed it started a whole lot of things , people afraid to travel using less fuel. What I don't understand is the $ of fuel.
   Used to be heating oil was far less the reg. gas-now it's almost like one price for all fuels.
   I' think your right on the money with them doing this and what's next? I can't put my finger on it but it diffently smells of Al Qeada or the oil producing nations that support terror.
   Funny how high oil went and people don't realize that when we all bought bikes , stopped using as much-- then the producer's found out with the high price they wern't making as much $ as when it was lower and everyone drove a lot more.
   TRR.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. Anonymous
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   This thought lingered in the back of my mind for about a day. Logistically it would be extremely difficult for terrorists of the Bin laden/Taliban type to pull off. Maybe an mega- wealthy "Dr. No" type who wanted to destroy the world while hiding out in his secret underworld bunker could do it... However, I think not. No, the sad thing is that this finacial mess has been a rolling stone gathering enough sh*t to create a perfect financial storm. There has been not enough regulation to stop brillient and greedy wall street crooks from devising methods to extract money from whatever bleeding sieve they could find. They're doing it right now as I right this. It's not going to stop until there are firm regulations and a strong SEC in place to police the bastards. You know, I said this 2 years ago... you don't f*ck with the housing market. Obviously it was too late. If you can find out who actually holds your mortgage, you're doing better than 99% of all homeowners. Mortgages have been bought, sold, resold, bundled and finally made meaningless. But those who did it got fabulously rich, so what do they care if the rest of us have zilch?

   But I do believe firmly in the power of the people. Read all you can, speak out when you can... over and over and over until your state reps finally get the message. Don't let up.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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