Schnürung von Unsicherheit:
"The Starke thing REALLY pissed me off, not even because of his remarks about the stocks... but because he basically told readers that people on message boards are frauds.
I don't think you'll find many people here guaranteeing the commons or even prefs HAVE to get paid. So he's just an idiot.
But he did piss me off with the comment because it was MEANT to scare people away from facts... these of course are facts that he's not presenting, not is anyone else in the mainstream press.
More of the same.
I don't doubt the attempt to shake shares. But what's worse is the fact that we're silent in all of this and are posting our "feelings" along with our research on the boards...
While this dope, who is a professional "vulture" I might add, is on TV and in print, not just giving his opinions on the stocks... which is his job, but commenting on the boards themselves.
There was no, "There's good info, but you have to pull it out of the garbage", which is true...
It was the inclination that the boards are full of frauds. Which, they aren't. Hell, we don't all agree on much of anything... that in and of itself is a good thing. We're all thinking for ourselves. It's the important stuff that we all tend to agree on, BECAUSE we know what should happen in order for justice to prevail.
There's nothing that says it has to and we all know that.
Facts are facts. 30 billion in cash on hand with an open window to borrow from the Fed, and they were seized anyway... with the public being told it was a liquidity crisis.
The FDIC won't show us why they were really seized. JPM isn't telling us what assets they took. Weil isn't doing much of anything but delaying (hopefully Weiling and dealing right now, but who the hell knows?).
So we're left flapping in the wind and no one's got our back. The EC is all we've got.
The press is scum. They serve their advertisers, period.
But I'm calm again. Starke is a piece of crap and SHOULD disclose that CRT (who he happens to work for) is actively trading the stocks he's reporting on... but he won't.
If anything, I think his neck is on the line. He must have used a ton of CRT cash to buy the prefs and is desperately trying to get people out of the commons and into the prefs.
I'm sure they're holding a ton of WMB bonds as well... remember that pump?
He's the biggest basher/pumper we've had to deal with, because he's on a national level.
It's not worth stressing over. There will be people that will come to this board tonight just to see what we're all about.
Lets clean it up. Keep a Starke thread going for good measure, but lets bump up facts instead of anti-Starke rants.
Newbies that come looking aren't going to gain any insight from trashing the shill. Real DD they're not getting in the press however, could stand to help them... as well as other longs that haven't checked into their holding for a while and are looking for updates.
Keep your chins up.
Starke is just doing his job and whacking at us, because we've called him out on his crap for months."
Nichts geschieht ohne Risiko,aber ohne Risiko geschieht auch nichts....!