don't look at your portfolio, it might show your money managers incompetence in their work. After all, they are professional in their career field- aren't they? Look at it this way. When you borrow money from a credit card to take on and speculate, whether you make or loose money, you are still responsible for repaying the amount you borrowed. Investing with money managers is the only area that I can think of currently where they are not responsible for the money they lose. It truely seems that the only responsiblity they have is to take their fees, in advance, every month. Your portfolio goes up and down, irrelevant to your concerns, but the managers still get their fees, and other fund expenses. Incredulous to me that people still give money to them.

Just give me the money. As I look back on my life, beyond my immediate family, money has allways been my closest friend. It doesn't backstab you, take you to divorce court, or Scheme on how to cheat you, or cheat on you. Money is not duplicitious on whether the person you hired is either working For you, or just for himself. Money may even be your closest friend. It provides you security for the present, and even support your family in the future. Money. Its there until the day you die, and then it becomes someone elses friend. You don't even have to feed it. What a beautiful thing, of what we call money. Now isn't if silly of us to be swayed to work for anything else other than money? Enough is good, more is better.

Something stinks here. According to the article, that a normal recession is approximately 11 months long. However, it takes anywhere from 5 to 18 months to recognize that we are IN a recession. 3 consecutive quarters of negative growth. (ie. 9 months.) Now, how long does it take for the government to recognize that we are in a recovery? Answer. 1 economic quarter!!! before reagan we did not count the military as employed. During reagan, he changed the computation to included the military as employed. Then, clucked that he lowered the unemployment rate 1/2% I am sure we can look forward to recieve more convoluted answers to our economic problems in the future from our gov't.

absolutely. But wait, how many times does it take for narcodics user to kick the habit? The same is for these lenders getting into bed with Donald on their investment deals. I honestly think that they would get better odds if they just threw the money on the caps table. The pain would be quicker anyway.

Someone has to please stop and answer a question for me. Why would G.M. semi secured debtors do a debt for equity swap anyway? There position of what there bonds are worth has been erroded away now in these last few months. Would G.M. give them a debt to equity buyout at full value of their bonds? What are they giving to the institutional investors? I bet it is not the same to the mom and pops investor. We need transparency in this country on these dealings. How can a company president wearing the fudiciary hat and go on cnbc, like the president of WB, (Wacovia) and say how sound they are. And then, the next day sell their company at pennies on the dollar?