tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post3798484101813907724..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, May 6 2008: Let the sentence fit the crimeIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68450112169208290682008-05-07T05:23:00.000-04:002008-05-07T05:23:00.000-04:00Snuffy,I relate to your description of the dream-l...Snuffy,I relate to your description of the dream-like quality of these days.The marketing of Mother's Day is particularly bizarre. I'm a Mother intending to speak of economic conditions with my adult children on May 11. But will the kids listen to talk of preparation? Not likely but I'll try one more time. Maybe if I frame it like a game, an adventure....?scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75054645937541415262008-05-07T00:10:00.000-04:002008-05-07T00:10:00.000-04:00I am having a lot of trouble these days with the "...I am having a lot of trouble these days with the "cognitive dissonance"....I know,from my studies that we are,as a society walking on a razor blade now.At some point,we slip and lose some very important parts.<BR/><BR/> But last weekend was the plant sale fair,it was sunny,and the plants were lovely,the vendors nice...life was good.I won some nice stuff at the raffle,wonderful weekend.<BR/><BR/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36646200752048670782008-05-06T14:17:00.000-04:002008-05-06T14:17:00.000-04:00I read UBS Plays It Safe, For Once and could only ...I read <A HREF="http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/05/06/ubs-blackrock-fund-markets-equity-cx_vr_0506markets22.html" REL="nofollow">UBS Plays It Safe, For Once</A> and could only laugh. Apparently UBS has found a bigger set of fools than themselves.<BR/><BR/>They are going to sell $22 billion of nominal assets for $15 billion due to write downs. That right there admits that their real value of Greyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-433740952798534072008-05-06T12:53:00.000-04:002008-05-06T12:53:00.000-04:00I spent Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park watching...I spent Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park watching the Red Sox from a ridiculously priced exclusive section of tables on the right-field roof.<BR/><BR/>The section of tables directly in front of us were festooned with table-clothes, food, and buckets of Sox schwag - some sort of Corporate Outing.<BR/><BR/>After the third inning some Red Sox employees brought each Corporate Man a handbag filled Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com