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  • Getting on Board!

    U. S. House of Representatives members, are reportedly receiving multiple telephone calls, in favor of the rescue plan. After yesterday's near complete meltdown on Wall Street, perhaps it is sinking in, that this is not only to save Wall Street, which should never have been, the title of the plan anyway, but it is to save the average American. That a vote against the bill would be a vote against the American people's self interest. Those who use credit cards, apply for school loans, auto loans, have a job, where their employer needs to tap his credit line to pay his or her salary, and many other sources of credit needed to keep the economy running. The 777 point drop in the DOW, where, one point two trillion dollars, in wealth flew out the window, gave a needed shock to the country, and to the Republicans, who somehow thought perhaps, that nothing was urgent, that they could act like kindergarten kids, playing the game of "my feelings were hurt", after Speaker Pelosi spoke the truth, and laid out that the Bush and McCain advocacy of deregulate, letting freedom ring for all those who wanted to profiteer on the backs of a lot of unsophisticated people, and some greedy individuals,lead to this financial mess, was so unbearable to hear. The leaders should never have put out the title "Wall Street Bailout", when trying to get the American people to accept this plan, it should have been the "Saving of American, Plan", which would have been more palatable to the public. Now we are here and lets hope, that when they return to Congress, on Thursday, after the Jewish holiday, that they will get together and pass this bill and send it to the Senate for passage,
    maybe with some adjustments, which would make the bill better not worse, then get it moving through to the senate. The Senate appears to be a bit more grown-up in their thinking, and it should go through without much of a problem.

    Senate leaders have reportedly agreed, to pass the bill,this week.
    They are also saying that they will try to revive the bill on Wednesday, by having a vote on the bailout.

    The SEC, is reporting that the FASB, may change the accounting process of "mark to market", with respect to the mortgages that are on company books. The adjustment, reportedly, may be of a temporary nature.

    Both Senators, Obama and McCain are suggesting, that the FDIC insurance protection, for individual depositors, be raised from one-hundred thousand dollars to two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The FDIC is requesting the increase on its own.

    Stocks are rallying, on the belief that the bill will be passed soon. The DOW closed up 485 points, recouping much of the loss from yesterday.

    It is reported that Germany and the UK will swallow the criticism, and adopt the same plan as Secretary Paulson, put forth in the United
    States, to shore up the financial markets. The bank failures are spreading to Europe.

    UBS is said to be eliminating 1,900 jobs, from its investment and trading units.

    AIG will be announcing, which assets, they will be selling on Friday of this week.

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  • Hang on Tight!

    Been on a roller coaster lately? That was what the feeling was today,
    watching the DOW Jones, plunge from 350 points to 620 points, then come down a bit, and finally settle at 777 points down, at the end of the day. Wheeee! The seven hundred billion dollar, bailout package was voted down today by the House of Representatives, when they needed ten or eleven additional votes to get the bill passed. two-thirds of the Democrats voted for the bill, the vote from the Republicans was 2-1 against the bill, the bill failed 228 to 205. The Markets overseas, started the early morning off, with Hong Kong having gone down yesterday, over 800 points. It is Tuesday in Japan, right now and the Japanese market has fallen 5% in early trading. Boys and girls, this is a global crisis, and getting worse. Banks in countries other than the U. S., are failing as well. Tomorrow and Wednesday, are Jewish holidays, and therefore the Jewish congressional members, won't be back in session until Thursday. I don't think the markets will be too happy in the next two days. The credit contrataction in tne economy, is starting to effect small businesses and large, payrolls are being held up, due to inacessible lines of credit. Worst of all recession looms around the corner.

    Senator McCain decided to take credit for the bill passing, before they voted on the bill, and it failed. Reportedly, no one from McCain's state of Arizona, voted for the bill. Opps!

    Governor Palin was parodied by Tina Faye, on Saturday Night Live,
    and the similiarity was quite amazing. The dialogue was particularly
    remarkable, since the words were almost exactly what the Governor said, during her tv interview. There appears to be some kind of disconnect between the questions Mrs. Palin, was asked and reality.
    Republicans are starting to ask that Governor Palin take herself
    off of the ticket or risk total devastation. The implosion is very near, me, myself thought, that McCain would have to remove her and replace her with anybody else, Mitt, Tom, whoever, as soon as Mccain announced her as his choice. It's starting to look like the choice for the Supreme Court judge by President Bush, who was thrown under the bus, by the president when she seemed, as though she had never, ever read a law book, let alone graduated law school.

    The consensus is that Senator Obama won the debate on Friday evening, over Senator McCain, 46% to 34%. Obama now leads McCain 50% to 42% in the daily Gallup tracking poll.

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