Found about 90 opinions about Merrill Lynch.
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Greed Update: Merrill Lynch CEO finally drops bid for $10M bonus
(09 Dec 2008)
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Quote: : Merrill Lynch's chief executive John Thain has dropped his request for a $10 million annual bonus after being blasted by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Thain had reportedly previously asked for a bonus of up to $10 million, which prompted Cuomo to send a strongly worded letter to Merrill's board of directors in which he called Thain's request for a bonus "nothing less than shocking." Seriously. I know it's a capitalistic mar...
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OT: U.S. Stocks Are Cheap But Can They Get Cheaper?
(10 Dec 2008)
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:17:57 -0800 (PST), ramashiva <ramashiva@earthlink.net
I have been fully invested in the stock market since June 1. Over
that time period, I am up 56%. I am up 36% since November 20. Based
on current quotes, I am up another 8% today. I am not even thinking
about selling.
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U.S. Stocks Are Cheap But Can They Get Cheaper?
(via Bloomberg): According to Tobin's q, S&P 500 is too expensive
relative t...
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U.S journo insults ISX's; says traders not trustworthy
(30 Oct 2008)
Dear Mr. Berko: My Merrill Lynch stockbroker has two foreign contacts in the Middle East and he and they believe that there is a tremendous opportunity to make money by buying stocks on the Iraq Stock Exchange. He says it's increased by 25 percent this year because the country is on the verge of an economic expansion that will be felt throughout Iraq and the Middle East.
He wants me to invest $100,000 in Iraqi banks and insurance companies that he and his two people believe can easily triple in...
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Jim Jones: I think Kanye actually hates Jay-Z
(21 Nov 2008)
You and Dame have criticized Jay-Z for continuing to rap at his age; do you think you’ll hang up the mic when you’re his age?
Jim Jones: Pretty much. I don’t think my pride or my ego will let me do it. As a joke, maybe, like Will Smith does every now and again. He’s making $20 million a movie—he doesn’t give a fuck. But for me to base my whole life and career and every dollar I make off of rapping and keep on doing this in my 40s, I don’t see that happening for me. Who wants to be stuck in here...
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Thank God Bush was not able to privatize SS ...
(25 Dec 2008)
Thank God Bush was not able to privatize SS ...
Just imagine! All the money all of us workers (especially the older ones) have put into the SS fund all our working lives would surely have been lost by all these crooks on Wall Street, by now, meaning tens of millions of baby boomers not only losing their jobs and homes but also their hopes of receiving some meager retirement.
Just go ahead and give the nation's retirement fund to Bernie Madoff, he'll know what to do with it!
And, as if that wou...
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Bush Warns Against `Too Much' Government in Markets
(14 Nov 2008)
You have got to be kidding me.
Quote: : Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush today urged leaders of the world's biggest economies not to abandon free- market capitalism as they seek an escape from the financial crisis, calling it the ``best system'' for delivering growth.
In a speech at the Manhattan Institute in New York before weekend talks among leaders from the Group of 20 nations, Bush said policy makers should resist the urge to meddle too much in markets as they seek to reverse...
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``There's no more Wall Street.''
(09 Dec 2008)
Greenberg Says Death of Bear, Lehman Means Wall Street Finished .
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Alan ``Ace'' Greenberg, the former Bear Stearns Cos. chief executive officer approaching his 61st year on Wall Street, said the investment-banking model he helped pioneer is defunct.
``There's no more Wall Street,'' Greenberg, 81, said last night in an interview on Bloomberg's ``Money & Politics'' television program. ``That model just doesn't work because it's at the mercy of rumors.''
Greenberg chose to stay...
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Greenberg Says Death of Bear, Lehman Means Wall Street Finished
(10 Dec 2008)
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Alan ``Ace'' Greenberg, the former Bear Stearns Cos. chief executive officer approaching his 61st year on Wall Street, said the investment-banking model he helped pioneer is defunct.
``There's no more Wall Street,'' Greenberg, 81, said last night in an interview on Bloomberg's ``Money & Politics'' television program. ``That model just doesn't work because it's at the mercy of rumors.''
Greenberg chose to stay when JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, agree...
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Mother's Sunday Morning Koffee Klatch
(21 Dec 2008)
My opinion is that it is like using even more aggressive attempts at resuscitation when the patient has died 10 minutes ago.
There is a world wide desire/need to deleverage, and it's bigger than the Fed's "infinite" balance sheet. I think in about 6 months the markets will realize this, with the US markets probably outperforming the rest of the world in the meantime. We are trying to inflate/debase/export our way out of the crisis, which would be fine if there were to be no responses by other pl...
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Opinion on Peter Schiff
(20 Nov 2008)
Is he a nutjob or was he the lone mind of reason in the last 2 to 8 years? In watching old Youtube videos from 2007 and earlier this year taken from CNBC and Fox group interviews along with guys like Ben Stein and Wayne Rogers, Schiff looks like a genius and the rest look like complete idiots. Stein recommended Merrill Lynch at $80 (it's at $9 now).