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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 02:20 AM Original message |
U.S. Pension Insurer Shifted to Stocks Ahead of Sept. Plunge |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. eh, just months before, what a coincidence. sure are a lot of them these days. |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 03:30 AM Response to Original message |
2. This could be HUGE. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 06:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. This guy was Managing Director of defaulted REIT, Broadway Partners |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 08:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Yea, and he was hired when? by whom? |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 04:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. so they are a Federal Agency but playing the stocks? I don't get it |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 08:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Not a federal agency, exactly. Read the story. |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 04:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. just picture how well Social Security would be doing now, |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 06:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The ratbastards ARE coming for it again |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
7. crap.. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. Keith O says it the best - "why Daddy went to jail" |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Probably at bush's request to prop up the market long enough for mccain to win. |
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End Of The Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
10. Betcha they did a credit default swap |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
11. Separation: Church and State. Separation: Federal and Wall Street. |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
12. That makes me so angry. PBGC has my husband's pension. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
13. Pension Insurer Shifted To Stocks (Federal Agency Under Bush Bought Risk Just Before Market Crashed) |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The sheer GALL of these bastards. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. They couldn't get SS into the market but they got these guys in. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. that was my thought, exactly. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Good God - |
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marketcrazy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. looking for their performance data, finding other interesting info |
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TayTay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The number of people in plans that are now run by PBGC is growing |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I wonder if the government borrows from the plans like they borrow from SS? |
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global1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Is It Me Or Does It Look Like Someone, Somewhere Had A Plan And Implemented It....... |
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terisan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Paulson would have known in January 2007 how dangerous that decision would be because |
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theblasmo (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I still think... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-30-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. K&R |
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