So I take it the financial players are still allowed to buy oil futures on margin, and that nothing has (or will ever) be done about highly-leveraged trading?

The futures markets are complicated because of their international character. I would hope Geithner will be discussing this with other finance ministers at the G-20 meeting. I think changes were put off last summer because Bush was in charge.

And she doesn’t even realize how much company she has.

Maybe we need a website where people can go and e-sign to let the world know they’re unemployed for the first time in their lives and they’re scared and confused.

Everybody in trouble needs to know they’re not the only one.
Everybody in trouble needs to know where to go for help.

If would-be recipients choose not to purse the bonuses, good for us. If they choose to sue for the bonus, rake their name through the mud like there’s no tomorrow. If they’re awarded the bonus, to some extent, we’ve still won. We’ve established a deterrent and even though the would-be is now a “be”, we’ve still given them the Madoff moniker…a pretty high price to pay.

Ta tu go halainn.

This is NUTHIN’ like the response to the S&L crisis in the ’80’s, the impact of this collapse and corporate welfare has already turned lifelong Republicans and anti-union “independants” to the Democrats by the millions and even in 1932 there weren’t the number of “middle class” folks fallin’ as far as most have already…and it took almost 4 years from 1929-’32 for everyone to hit the bottom, today EVERYone in the bottom 90% has been hit and there are millions more of us than there were in 1932.

No Citizen ekunin, even the fat cats are gettin’ the picture, they’re tryin’ ta get theirs and take down as much of the social infrastructure as possible ‘cuz they know they don’t have much time left. The reaction to this economic collapse is gunna shake this country from the 19th into the 21st Century and we haven’t even begun to see the “populist outrage” yet!

Neil’s timeless.