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Wachovia? Really? And now bailouts in Europe?

Go Citigroup. *Rah* Actually, this one makes me sad. My sister has her accounts there which I assume, only understanding about a tenth of what is going on, are FDIC'ed, but I noticed my 457 lost another percentage point which translates to no buying myself poolboys when I'm seventy. Life hard.

I've noticed it's a lot easier and funnier to stop looking at this as "the future of America" and instead look upon it as a morality play about socks. I haven no idea why socks, per se, but I know that if there's a lesson in greed in this, no one who needed the lesson learned a damn thing.

Somewhere, there's got to be a group of people running bets on who crashes next.

ETA: Fine! I feel betrayed by European banks! This is our crash and now they have to try and steal our economic death spiral attention! I resent it! *bitter* Just watch, Asia's next, because it's trendy for banks to fall. Dammit.

Try Vegas for the bets.

And I am trying really hard to not think of some of the long term issues that might arise from this.

~L

I will never be able to retire. I will die in my tracks at this rate.

You, me and everyone else. I think that this whole debacle is a conspiracy by some one. Maybe the SS folks are doing something so people will be required to work longer, contribute more & pull out less before they die. What do you think?

~L

That is not the worst idea I've heard.

<--still resenting Europe for stealing death spiral attention

The fact that it isn't is really disturbing.

And Europe needs to get their own scandals & stop stealing ours!

~L

Perhaps this is payback for stealing all their TV show ideas and then doing a horrible job remaking them?

if Brian Kinney is wrong, I do not want to be right.

I'll see your QaF and counter with "Coupling". Or any of the scripted reality crap that's currently polluting our airwaves.

I'm keeping an eye on Capital One. Stock price is rollercoastering though. Up, down. Up, down... And now they have a big old MEMBER FDIC stamp on their website, that I don't think used to be there?

*eyes them* Did their savings rate go up or is that just me? *frowns*

Also - I just remembered. Citigroup is centered in Vegas, near where I used to live. I wonder if this means they'll be expanding.

I hate Citigroup. And my investment account - what little there is left of it - is at Wachovia. Oddly enough, it used to be a Prudential Finance account, but then Wachovia bought it out. Eight years of Republicans = no antitrust legislation left, so when the big ones go belly-up, EVERYTHING fails.

Yep. It's like watching dominoes fall over. I'm seriously waiting for runs on the banks.

If it makes you feel any better, I work for a bank and have no fucking idea what's going on or how it's going to effect us right now. Then again, that could be why we're in the situation we're in...

...maybe helps a little. I'm just saying, Europe shouldn't have copied us!

Maybe it's like the Levi's craze: US made it popular first and now everyone wants to be cool and do it too? On the plus side, there are places that pay $250 for a $30 pair of Levi's, so maybe their bailout will make our $700 billion look like chump change?

I really, really wish it were your death spiral alone. Sincerely.

*sighs* I think a death-spiralless 2008 should have been my New Year's Resolution now.

You and every executive out there.

~L

I suspect one day this will all be a musical on Broadway.

I am thinking more of a farce. Written by Mel Brooks.

~L

"Death spiral" sounds like some really daring piece of figure skating choreography. Maybe someone will use it in the next Winter Olympics. *g*

... "It's not that simple. A death spiral is really a controlled crash -- oh, look at you light up." Rodney rolled his eyes. "You don't need drugs, you're an adrenaline junkie," he spluttered, but John just continued to look interested. "Anyhow, my theory is the death spiral was discovered by accident when someone slid in a pairs spin and their partner just held on for dear life." (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/outofbounds.html)

Rule 34 applies?

OMG! Bwahaha!!! I had no idea! *g*

In all fairness the first German bank that went under thanks to the US mortage mess and was bailed out by government was IKB in 2007, so it isn't exactly a new trend...

*darkly* So you say now.

If this is a morality play, the moral of the story seems to be that all the people who cause the problems walk away with huge bonuses (and pool boys) and everyone else pays for it. So it's best for you if you are the one to cause the problem!

I am intrigued by your ideas. Perchance, do you run a newsletter?

Unfortunately, from what I've been told, Asia's banks aren't gonna fail. China's sitting and waiting to buy us out. Actually, I'm just bitter because my parents keep telling me to properly learn Mandarin, and I'm desperately hoping our economy won't crash just so I have a decent excuse when they ask why I haven't yet.

If this is a play about socks, and the socks are (obviously) being eaten by the dryer monster, are we supposed to defeat the dryer monster, or just stop drying our socks and hope it goes away soon?

Do you think I could get away with Cantonese? *chews lip* I've heard it's easier.

I don't know. They use the same written language, which is TERRIBLE because it's all memorization and icons and stuff, none of this "sound it out" stuff. Unfortunately, according to the internet, Mandarin's better for business purposes, since it's used more widely. (Holy fuck Google says Cantonese has 9 tones, which is crazy; Mandarin only has 4).

CLEARLY THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION IS TO HUNT DOWN THE DREADED DRYER MONSTER AND MAKE HIM REGURGITATE OUR SOCKS. *waves torch* Who's with me?

I AM! (OH GOD NINE TONES. I THOUGHT FINNISH AND ITS EIGHTEEN CASES WAS SCARY BUT THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT TONES.)

*WAVES TORCH IN SOLIDARITY*

Yeah, tones are a bitch. The only natural way to learn them is to have an elderly Chinese woman yell at you over and over until you can tell the difference between the two middle ones that sound almost exactly alike but not exactly exactly alike. Any other method and you just don't sound ~*~right~*~ when you speak.

On the bright side, there's no tenses or cases in Chinese, period, either spoken or written. Zip. Nada. Conjugation? What's that? :D

(PS: I want to lick your icon.)

"the same written language"
but no. Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapur, they all still use traditional Chinese letters.
Only communistic , mainland China uses simplified Chinese written letters.

Mandarin is de facto Chinese. Cantonese is just a dialect of the Southern Regions of China, including Hongkong, and Guangzhou Region.
I am fairly fluent in Cantonese because I grew up with it, but I understand zero Mandarin.

its comparable to German and Bavarian. There is the German language, and there is the dialect of Bavaria.
I am perfectly fluent in German, but if a true Bavarian would speak in his dialect to me, I would be completely helpless.

you are better off with mandarin XD

where the hell did you hear, that Cantonese is easier!??!

Just one point this month? Try four! I've been losing so much on my 457, I don't know why I didn't just say no to signing up and put it in my ING savings. It's not like the city matches anything. Bleah. (After some thought: Dear ING, please do not have a history of investing in sub-prime mortgages and ARMs that I do not know about, KTHX.)

I'm running at a minus ten percent from my total contributions--I have not made money on this thing ever. I can't even sigh at every drop; I'm almost curious now how low it can go.

My first year I had a 9% rate of return and was like hells yeah, I won't have to work until I die, maybe! Now I'm pretty much at -10% overall, too. I've only had it for a couple of years, and I have a long while to go before I'm retirable, but I'm still thinking of ditching every fund but the (supposedly guaranteed) Houston Fixed Fund and hoping for the best.

Best response to the whole mess ever!

I would toss it onto metaquotes, but a) too lazy and b) you would then get even weirder traffic...

Thpppppbbbt. We had to bail out one of our major mortgage lenders before one of yours collapsed completely.

Bah. I don't want to be a Citi customer. Then again, I didn't really want to be with Wachovia, but they bought out First Union.

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