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September 15 2008
WALL STREET CRASHES
McCain Says, The Foundation of "The Nations Economy" is Fine!
Obama says, if that's True, I got a Bridge to NowWhere, in Alaska . . . you can buy from Palin!
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Lehman filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The 158-year-old Lehman was crippled by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings and unable to find an investment partner to throw it a lifeline.
Lehman said in a statement early Monday that none of its broker-dealer subsidiaries or other units would be included in the Chapter 11 filing in U.S. bankruptcy court in New York.
The stunning weekend developments took place as voters, who rank the economy as their top concern, prepare to elect a new president in seven weeks.
Individual customers are starting to get nervous about the financial health of their banks for the first time in generations.
Banks are began receiving inquiries from individuals in the past two months.
The Federal Reserve announced late Sunday several steps to cope with the worst credit crisis in decades, including broadening the types of assets that investment banks can put up to get emergency loans from the Fed.
The action came as U.S. and foreign commercial banks were hashing out a plan to inoculate the global financial system against the possible Failure of The World Bank next spring.
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The Bush Crisis that has Gripped Wall Street for months is just starting!
Bank of America -based - Charlotte, N.C. has the most deposits of any U.S. bank, while Merrill Lynch is the world's largest brokerage.
A combination of the two would create a global financial giant to rival Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank in terms of assets.
Merrill has reported four straight quarterly losses.
And Bank of America's own finances are far from robust. As consumer credit deteriorates, the bank has seen its profits decline, plus absorbing the embattled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, which it acquired in January.
 So BofA, may CRASH it's self as early as March or April next year, postponing the Complete Financial CRASH, till after the Presidential Elections.
The International Monetary Fund predicted earlier this year that total losses from the credit crisis could reach almost $1 trillion. So far, banks have only taken about $350 billion in losses.
Commercial banks are also starting to feel the pinch.
Eleven have closed so far this year, including Pasadena, Calif.-based IndyMac Bank, which had $32 billion in assets and $19 billion in deposits.
Last March, The Central Bank implemented the biggest expansion in the emergency loan program since the Great Depression by announcing that investment banks could obtain money from the Fed. That action came after the near-collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns, which was taken over with the help from a $29 billion Fed loan by JP Morgan Chase and Co.
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Bank of America buys Merrill for $50B
Sunday by more seismic shocks from Wall Street, including a government-brokered takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank of America for $50 billion.
A forced restructuring of the world's largest insurance company, American International Group Inc., also weighed heavily on global markets as the effects of the 14-month-old credit crisis intensified.
A global consortium of banks, working with government officials in New York, announced late Sunday a $70 billion pool of funds to lend to troubled financial companies.
The aim, according to participants who spoke to The Associated Press, was to prevent a worldwide panic on stock and other financial exchanges.
Ten banks - Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS - each agreed to provide $7 billion.
Unemployment is rising, consumers are clamping down as paychecks shrink and the government snatched control of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as it battles the worst financial and credit crises in decades.
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Hurricane Ike's Aftershocks
Gasoline prices surged overnight - to nearly $5 a gallon in some places.
Compounding the jitters and higher costs for gasoline retailers was the fact that some big refineries along the Gulf Coast had been shut for nearly two weeks following Hurricane Gustav. Power outages caused by Ike threatened to keep millions of gallons of gasoline output idled for at least several days.
Run America . . .
Run for your Life!
A lot of it is simply incredible, and a lot of the price increases make no sense economically in terms of supply and demand!
People reported gas was selling for as low as $3.49 a gallon in some spots, and $5 at another.
People are outraged, Everyone is having a hard time understanding all of this!
Such market fundamentals could last for another few weeks
Ike shut down 14 Texas refineries with a total capacity of 3.8 million barrels of crude a day, or about 20 percent of the country's total output.
``The Department of Energy and state authorities will be monitoring a gasoline crisis so consumers are not being gouged,'' President Bush said. Republican Bull SHIT!
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Mexican Produce Responsible
for the United States' largest outbreak of food-borne illness in a decade, but not as bad as all the tainted Food coming from China!
It infected at least 1,440 people with a rare form of salmonella.
some Mexican producers grow fruits and vegetables under strict sanitary conditions for export to the U.S., many don't — and they can still send their produce across the border easily.
Neither the U.S. nor the Mexican governments impose any safety requirements on farms and processing plants. That includes those using unsanitary conditions — like those at Agricola Zaragoza — and brokers or packing plants that mix export-grade fruits and vegetables with lower-quality produce.
In fact, the only thing a Mexican company needs to do to sell produce to the United States is to register online.
The only U.S. government enforcement consists of 625 FDA inspectors who conduct spot checks of both U.S. and foreign produce, reviewing less than 1 percent of all imports. Beyond that, it is entirely up to the supermarkets and restaurants to police their produce.
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Younger evangelicals split over Palin choice as VP
McCain's choice has been greeted as a cynical political ploy, a depressing return to the culture wars and damaging to efforts to broaden the evangelical dialogue.
 Polls have yet to measure the Palin Effect on younger evangelical voters, whose shifting political allegiances put the demographic in play for both major-party presidential campaigns.
Conservatives are energized much like their elders, progressives are unimpressed and many undecideds are gravitating toward McCain-Palin.
I think the jury is still out on young evangelicals, both parties need to address issues of deep concern for this voting bloc."
Obama has had a lot of appeal for being new, fresh, cool and bringing change.
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