Goofball...you are obviously not paying attention to the bank stocks...

MER up 12.5% so far

FITB up 8.3% so far

BAC up 7.7% so far

WB up 31.9% so far

C (even lowly Citi who got snubbed on the Wachovia deal) is up 8%...

They'll all go down, too.  But you are only going to hear and see what you want to hear and see.  I was against the bailout, too, but you have to admit...these weird things going on in the market very likely were going to happen with or without the bailout...the bailout is not the root cause of the weirdness...

@ShooterSteve - 

One term Barack.  Get used to it. 

(He'll gonna make Carter look like an economic prophet.)

Watch what the market does on November 5th.  GM's market cap is down to under $3 billion -- can you believe it?  And OTB is going to tax the snot out of evil corporations.  Yeah...that's gonna save some jobs!

@fjblau - Yeah I am afraid your right, funny how no one ever seems to get their mind changed. I would go for a John and Joe ticket though. See if the Acorn thing brings out the truth or maybe the Clinton's have something up their sleeve, they have been very quiet. Would be nice if the media was equal. This is after all our country. In all seriousness the Ayers (sp?) thing with Obama is a big deal. I am concered but less concerned about Obama being in as I am Obama AND Nancy and the congress. That is just a lot of corruption. The Demo's passed the Bail Out to fix their mistake in the first place. Yes Bush presented it to quickly and timely, we are all in a big mess and have to look down the road. Regardless of the prez. Congress and the Senate need major replacemets. 

@ewittmayer - If Gary were Federal Reserve Chief, you know that he would bring back the gold standard

I wonder if the next President will repeal the Bailout... Rescue.... Rape The Taxpayer bill?

I just received my Absentee Ballot yesterday and I may vote for one of the other ELEVEN Presidential candidates on the ballot. I bet the majority of voters don't realize that there are other candidates besides Obama and McCain. Hey... that may be a great question for Jay Leno's street interviews.

@tondeaf - 

@fjblau - 

@fjblau - I tend to be more Libertarian than either Republican or Democrat and I believe in democracy. But sometimes I would rather see a true democracy rather than the representative version we have in the U.S. -  I guess I just don't trust or have faith in the middlemen that supposedly represent me.  I say "sometimes" because after seeing some of the extremists on both ends, I'm glad there are representatives to filter them out. I wonder though if statistically the mean of voters would be a true measure of a normally distributed concensus or if the distribution is so skewed that you would have to go by the median instead. (sorry about the math talk).

My traditional simplistic views of the Democrat and Republican party values were; that the Democrats favored that the government take care of the people (because supposedly the masses are not capable of making their own decisions and take care of themselves) and that would entail large government, lots of regulating, and lots of taxes to fund all the social programs. The Republicans, on the other hand, felt that people should be responsible for themselves and left to pursue opportunities on their own with little government meddling and generally were for smaller government, less spending, lower taxes, and free enterprise to encourage greedy capitalism. Democrats were liked by blue-collar America and white collar america favored the Republicans. As I have watched the parties change over time, those descriptions are no longer the case. In the last several decades, the Republicans have over spent and restricted individual rights in the name of government protection. I really view both parties as one now with wider bandwidth between extremes depending on each candidate. It's a crap shoot.

@med267 - I beg to differ about Chavez's Venezuela. My girlfriend is Venezuelan and just returned from visiting her family there. I have also spoken with her parents and the families of her sisters over the last four years. They are ardent anti-Chavez and are constantly describing the hardships living under Chavez, the deterioration of their standard of living, and they are concerned for the future of Venezuela. When any of them visit the U.S., they go shopping for basic items that are no longer available in Venezuela. What they described to me is exactly what my parents and I lived through under the Castro regime. That, of course, is of no surprise to me since Chavez is following the Castro model for destroying a prosperous nation. I feel very lucky and priviliged to now be an American citizen living in the U.S. and despite all of the craziness with the economy right now, our standard of living is still far better than Cuba or today's Venezuela.

I do agree with you that as for my Libertarian slant, my beliefs are in direct contradiction to Marxist principles. Funny, when we came to the U.S. as refugees in the mid-sixties, our family associated Democrats with the Socialist-Communist Marxist types. That is why most of the old-guard Cubans in Miami are the most staunch supporters of the Republican (and I would also claim Libertarian) way. I have mellowed with age and have become more Centrist. Now I feel that both parties can offer something of benefit to the nation  that also coincide with my personal beliefs. It is just tough finding all those good qualities in one candidate.

@qnetx -