Financial Markets!

The start today for the financial markets looks really bad. And at the end of the day it will be even worst. There’s only one thing that will save this day. And that thing is a really plan comes out from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Which both of these men will be in front of Congress on Wednesday for a briefing on the economy. Hopefully they will have some great news to deliver to Congress and the American people. The only way they will have good news to deliver is if we get their plan to buy $700 billion in banks’ mortgage debt moving. Because if we don’t we will have another bad start to a really bad week.

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Wall Street’s Financial Problems!

It seems that Republican John McCain is under fire for stating that he would fire SEC chairman Christopher Cox and create a special trust. I really don’t know much about Christopher Cox to have an opinion on this matter. Here’s what I do know, Christopher Cox, a Republican and former 17-year House member who has served on committees overseeing investor protection and U.S. capital markets. And President Bush also appointed him in 2005. I also think that John McCain needs to keep his mouth shut about things like this and maybe read some books instead. I do know for a fact that the SEC has looked the other way a lot and maybe Cox should be terminated. But let’s not talk about it in the news, it’s a personal issue.

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Russia Closed Markets!

Did you all hear about what’s going on in Russia? It seems that Russia is worst off than we are in America, which we already knew that. But it’s so bad that Russia ordered its main stock exchanges closed. They closed Wednesday after the RTS, a leading index, fell 6.5 percent and the MICEX exchange dropped 3 percent. By simply closing their exchange markets it will buy time for President Dmitry Medvedev to pump billions in to stabilize the markets. This will be the second day their markets will be closed. Maybe closing the exchange down and sending everyone on vaction for a little rest isn’t such a bad idea. Now you know I’m just joking here, but maybe that’s what everyone needs, a little down time and rest. We should also close our markets while the Fed works to stabilize. Maybe the Russian’s know something we don’t.

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Lehman Brothers Done!

Lehman Brothers have been trying to keep themselves out of bankruptcy court for a few weeks now. But they can no longer do so. The 158-year-old firm – Lehman Brothers have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning. This bankruptcy filing will shack up the world markets. All stock exchanges around the world will open down and could stay down for awhile. The Lehman Brothers have been burdened by $60 billion in real bad real-estate holdings. There’s really not much more to say about this, besides hang on for another ride on Wall Street.

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