Entries Tagged as 'fail'

Tire Fires Burn Faster Than This

August 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · fail

Blockbuster is finally filing for bankruptcy, sometime next month. Friggin’ finally. Their failboat has been trying to dock for well over a year now. We’ve posted about this stupid company’s looming bk so many times now that if we had a nickel for each one, we could have bailed them out by now. C’mon, Blockbuster. [...]

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HELOC? HELNO.

August 23rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · fail

From NYT, shocking, shocking news: you may have to stop looking at your house as a guaranteed cash cow. “There is no iron law that real estate must appreciate,” said Stan Humphries, chief economist for the real estate site Zillow. “All those theories advanced during the boom about why housing is special — that more [...]

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Marc Faber: Massive Inflation and then War
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Extreme Foreclosure On The Mansion Behind The Futon Factory

August 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · fail

ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” – part of that endless procession of reality television that changes people’s lives for the better just long enough to get the ratings to come in – is also a great example of the excesses of the housing crisis, since it plopped people down square in the middle of gigantic homes that, [...]

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ShoreBank Is Finally Dry Docked

August 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · all ur bankz, fail

Bailout opponents alike can toast to this one — Chicago’s politically well-connected ShoreBank should start packing its bags, as it’s about to take a one-way trip on the failboat, per Charlie Gasparino: FOX Business Network has learned that banking regulators have informed officials at ShoreBank that the company is heading for the Federal Deposit Insurance [...]

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$GS Misses The Point

July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · all ur bankz, fail, goldman sachs

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you and I had devised a deal that would make us a lot of money at the expense of someone else. We would, of course, never do such a thing, but let us pretend. This being the 21st century, we would, naturally, communicate about this deal via [...]

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Richard Russell: “A hard rain lies ahead”
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Europe’s uncertain century
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