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    Is it only Standard and Poor's who bumped you guys down a notch or did the other two major players do it too? Cuz what I read... S&P has done some damage to you before with their error and giving false credit ratings to shit that helped create the massive economy meltdown...

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    It was only S&P, the other two left the rating at AAA

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    And now people are calling apocalypse and the wall street is melting? Holy shit man... who knew one firm could do all this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jezter View Post
    Holy shit man... who knew one firm could do all this.
    I suppose that applies to Lehman Brothers, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arkady Renko View Post
    I suppose that applies to Lehman Brothers, too.
    Oh but they had a lot of help from others, like Goldman Sachs... whole subprime crisis and "too big to fail" shit.

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    I wonder if I'm too big to fail? Maybe I can get a government bailout

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelancinator View Post
    I wonder if I'm too big to fail? Maybe I can get a government bailout
    You can try! Just make sure you get false credit ratings first to aid your cause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelancinator View Post
    I wonder if I'm too big to fail? Maybe I can get a government bailout
    eat your way up to, say, 1000 lbs and we'll talk again.

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    Wild, the Dows up 200 points this morning..

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