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Old 11-28-2010, 08:46 AM
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Yes. Losing 35-40% of one's investments had quite the negative effect on Wall Street's reputation with "the average American". Thank goodness Social Security didn't get privatized by Bush The Second - it would have been a blood bath.
I often think of this and also the 24/7 trading they were touting during the DotCom bubble. Only people this would have benefited is the Hedge Funds who trade both sides and the Uber rich that can get in them providing it wasn't run by Madoff. Mom and Pop and their buy and hold mutual funds would be absolutely destroyed...
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Old 11-28-2010, 06:34 PM
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I'm fed up with these arrogant GOP losers endangering our national security just to score political points against Obama by saying "no" to everything. They've done nothing for two years.

If Jon Kyl (R Senator Arizona) continues to obstruct the START Treaty renewal just because he wants to throw a hissy fit and try and screw Obama - the exact same treaty the GOP and Reagan approved in the past, the same treaty the GOP was raving about Bush's last year in office, the same treaty plenty of other GOP say is necessary and essential to our nuclear security - WITH added funding that Kyle threw a temper tantrum and demanded and was added by Obama in a conciliatory move, then Kyl backed out again voting to approve it - un-effing- believable bunch of irresponsible babies, putting politics before this country. Can Senators be recalled?
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Old 11-29-2010, 05:20 AM
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I'm fed up with these arrogant GOP losers endangering our national security just to score political points against Obama by saying "no" to everything. They've done nothing for two years.

If Jon Kyl (R Senator Arizona) continues to obstruct the START Treaty renewal just because he wants to throw a hissy fit and try and screw Obama - the exact same treaty the GOP and Reagan approved in the past, the same treaty the GOP was raving about Bush's last year in office, the same treaty plenty of other GOP say is necessary and essential to our nuclear security - WITH added funding that Kyle threw a temper tantrum and demanded and was added by Obama in a conciliatory move, then Kyl backed out again voting to approve it - un-effing- believable bunch of irresponsible babies, putting politics before this country. Can Senators be recalled?
Yeah we are in imminent danger. I'm really scared. China and India and Russia may decide to launch a first strike against us now...

I find it facinating that the original link and my question about it continues to be ignored by the Democrats here.
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:10 AM
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Yeah we are in imminent danger.
You should be scared when the GOP has been blocking normal business for our country for two years, just to try and damage Obama, so they can try and win back the Presidency in 2012.

Routine government business and funding, blocked, treaties in effect since Reagan (hell a treaty Reagan and the GOP created and supported!) blocked .... it's a miracle that Pelosi-Reid-Obama got accomplished as much as they did, considering they needed to overcome the excessive filibuster vote requirement, not the Constitutional majority vote requirement in the Senate, virtually every time something was passed.

BTW, this is a pretty funny website (just insert the f word in the URL if it won't click through): http://www.whatthe****hasobamadonesofar.com/
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Old 11-29-2010, 01:22 PM
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You should be scared when the GOP has been blocking normal business for our country for two years, just to try and damage Obama, so they can try and win back the Presidency in 2012.

Routine government business and funding, blocked, treaties in effect since Reagan (hell a treaty Reagan and the GOP created and supported!) blocked .... it's a miracle that Pelosi-Reid-Obama got accomplished as much as they did, considering they needed to overcome the excessive filibuster vote requirement, not the Constitutional majority vote requirement in the Senate, virtually every time something was passed.

BTW, this is a pretty funny website (just insert the f word in the URL if it won't click through): http://www.whatthe****hasobamadonesofar.com/
Yes because the GOP is evil and the Democrats are all faithful public servants that always have the common good at heart...
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Old 11-29-2010, 05:15 AM
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I often think of this and also the 24/7 trading they were touting during the DotCom bubble. Only people this would have benefited is the Hedge Funds who trade both sides and the Uber rich that can get in them providing it wasn't run by Madoff. Mom and Pop and their buy and hold mutual funds would be absolutely destroyed...
LOL. So what you are saying is that the trillions of dollars invested in mutual funds didnt benefit from the dot.com bubble?
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Old 11-29-2010, 06:04 AM
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LOL. So what you are saying is that the trillions of dollars invested in mutual funds didnt benefit from the dot.com bubble?
LOL... I think you have a selective reading disorder.. No that is not what I am saying at all. Go back and read with a mind not already made up that I am an enemy Dem.
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Old 11-29-2010, 06:37 AM
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LOL... I think you have a selective reading disorder.. No that is not what I am saying at all. Go back and read with a mind not already made up that I am an enemy Dem.
I think you have basic english sentence disorder. Did you not see the question mark at the end of the sentence? You responded to a post in which Riot bemoaned the loss of 30-40% of the "average american's" investments. You wrote "I agree and.."

So I asked you a question and since you brought up the dotcom bubble referenced both mutual funds AND the dotcom bubble. If you and Riot would ever actually bother to answer questions instead of promoting my supposed narrowminded political biases.
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Old 11-29-2010, 08:31 AM
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"So what you are saying is that the trillions of dollars invested in mutual funds didnt benefit from the dot.com bubble?"

Odd way to phrase a question no? I may not have been an English major but that sure seems like a paraphrase to me...

To answer your question, Mutual funds prospered as they racked in their fees as did the hedge funds who trade both ways. How did Mom and Pop do if they did what mom and pop always do and entered the game in 1999.. Not so much...
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:20 AM
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If you and Riot would ever actually bother to answer questions instead of promoting my supposed narrowminded political biases.
You might stick to the actual discussion instead of insisting on only debating with your straw man friends.
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Old 11-29-2010, 01:24 PM
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You might stick to the actual discussion instead of insisting on only debating with your straw man friends.
Your refusal to answer my questions is really quite telling.
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Old 11-29-2010, 06:11 PM
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Your refusal to answer my questions is really quite telling.
I haven't refused. I answered it in my first post on this thread.
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