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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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jtsan's post went something like this IIRC:
"merill lynch is going to ask the feds for a bailout this week, if the feds refuse, look for a general meltdown"
30 days later was the meltdown,
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Well, the meltdown was Lehman bros on Sept 13-14. 2008
mL was just standing on the deck as the iceberg approached.
Talk started about BOA merger.
ML asked the Fed for $20 billion in January 2009. That forced the BOA merger.
Paulson was head of the Fed if I remember right.
( I played Lacrosse with an ex-Lehman bros president who died in a ski accident. He was dead years before)
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2016 - 10:45pm PT
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T-bills and Gold, baby
Already there. Have been for years. If you have an aquifer laying around, I could be tempted.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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I could sell you a nice recently fracked one...
I'm going for all the Pu 238 that's left.
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2016 - 10:53pm PT
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You always were a spoil sport, Larry.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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wouldnt you like this in your living room?
Beats a lava lamp
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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For the last two days the land line here has been picking up a signal!?
Should I report it to more than just the super Topo crowd?
It is weird - you turn a handset on and hear an open line, and a background of random conversation ?
One can not call out. . . . . but incoming calls keep coming in?
I wish it were the other way around,
but the aliens are moon lighting as bill collectors
Seems like it could be the Aliens that I've read live in the moon?
They have to fund their Rockets too!
It must be extraterrestrial !
what else could interrupt modern tele-communications?
A Mouse! Chewing on a cable......
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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wouldnt you like this in your living room?
Pu238 would be fine... and powering a heat engine would keep things controlled, though its half-life might be a disadvantage for long term investment...
too bad we don't make it anymore... great for exploring the solar system
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