{"id":3052,"date":"2008-05-23T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:08:57","slug":"financial-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Financial Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe emails:<\/p>\n<p>Banks &#8211; the order of failure will be &#8211; Downey Savings within 12 months, just like the angel said to Sarah regarding the birth of a baby boy.  Next is First Federal, probably in the next 18 months.  Washington Mutual will be lucky to survive.  It is not clear that wells fargo, b of a, or others can swallow these turds whole.  It may take some federal action.  If you want to make money, there is still money to be made shorting downey, fed, wamu, wells, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Oil is going to 200 a barrel.  Buy small oil stocks that have been poorly run by goyim in the midwest.  Althought these goyim are so dumb that if they ran a funeral home nobody would die, the demand for oil makes the business foolproof.  Buy a stock called TGC.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe emails: Banks &#8211; the order of failure will be &#8211; Downey Savings within 12 months, just like the angel said to Sarah regarding the birth of a baby boy. 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