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Taking Advantage of Small Towns in Tennessee
Topic Started: Apr 8 2009, 04:13 AM (148 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08bond.html?hp

I hope Jeffrey shows up to defend Morgan Keegan's practices here. It would be interesting to see him try.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Frank_W
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Wow.. None of these places are all that far from me. How sad.
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big al
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Some local governments and school districts in this region have had similar experiences.

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Red Rice
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Yep. Same here in Wisconsin.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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QuirtEvans
Apr 8 2009, 04:13 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08bond.html?hp

I hope Jeffrey shows up to defend Morgan Keegan's practices here. It would be interesting to see him try.
They're not walkable urban paradises big cities, so they must have been asking for it.

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Horace
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QuirtEvans
Apr 8 2009, 04:13 AM
I hope Jeffrey shows up to defend Morgan Keegan's practices here. It would be interesting to see him try.
he would gladly give perfectly reasonable justifications for all the actions of all the financial industry players in this scenario, if it wasn't for the irrational populist rage his perfectly reasonable arguments would be met with.
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Seems really scummy, there's no doubt that there has been plenty of inappropriate derivative sales to municipalities in the past 15 years.

On the other hand, I would caution that there are plenty of stories where the treasurer of a small company or municipality makes bet after bet on derivatives and then when one eventually goes sour they play dumb. Orange county comes to mind.
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