[Mr_T]

Originally Posted by Mystiquek333

I have not we have to set it up

OK...Lana....when would be good?

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by Mystiquek333

k cigg tim...be back in a few

You gots 2 quit smoking!!!

[gongtowjai]

Originally Posted by Bimmer335i07

Nope... we don't drive as much as you do. I spend around $400/month on gas.





Ehhh... Don't really care about the SLR or Paul... lol!

j.k. Paulie!!!

Was telling the truth about the SLR. It's just another car that I cannot afford.

I don't lie...

[Mr_T]

Originally Posted by Bimmer335i07

You gots 2 quit smoking!!!

+1

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

I do

The whole e90post knows you do.

[Mr_T]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

quarter past never?

Ouch...........


Meanie...

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by gongtowjai

I don't lie...

What the hell was that for?

I didn't call you a liar!!!

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

Turn that frown upside down.

[ihyln]

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ihyln

What's up Shaf? Just woke up?

[Mr_T]

Thank god....I'm not big on Gov't regulating free market activity but this just had to happen:

Market regulator limits shorting of Fannie, Freddie, primary dealers

SEC Chairman Cox announces an emergency order restricting practice of shorting key institutions without first borrowing the shares sold.

[ihyln]

Originally Posted by Bimmer335i07

What's up Shaf? Just woke up?

Hi Scott No, just kinda busy today

[nyalpine90]

zzzzzzz

[dominancex]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

Afternoon Reading: Will Lehman Take Its Ball and Go Home
Posted by Stephen Grocer
Will Lehman Brothers Holdings go private?

A day after Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst David Trone suggested Lehman go private, the New York Post is reporting that the Lehman CEO Dick Fuld “is seriously mulling a way to take itself private and out of the public eye.”

Lehman long has been subject to takeover speculation. The one problem: a dearth of plausible buyers, as Dealbreaker’s John Carney points out. So perhaps taking the Wall Street firm private makes sense.

Lehman’s has been hammered by concerns and rumors about its own survival. Its shares are down roughly 30% this year. That decline, according to Trone, has little to do with the Lehman’s liquidity and balance sheet, and more to do with investors’ pricing in the probability of a Bear Stearns-like run-on-the-bank. (See this Deal Journal post.)

Clearly, taking Lehman private would remove the pressure from short-sellers betting on the bank going the way of Bear Stearns. And at its current share price, Lehman would be buying itself on the cheap. Lehman’s shares are recently trading around $14. That means it’s worth less than the $8 billion that Lehman’s asset-management unit, formerly known as Neuberger Berman, could fetch. Writes Portfolio.com’s Felix Salmon:

“So at this point it makes perfect sense for CEO Dick Fuld to go private, sell off Neuberger Berman, and basically get the rest of the bank for free. Yes, there would be question marks over how reliable a private Lehman might be as a counterparty, but there are the same question marks over a public Lehman, too. And the private Lehman would still have the same access to the Fed’s discount window that the public Lehman has.”

Some Final Sips of Bud
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers up an aggregation of blog items and Twitter posts since July 14 that mention Anheuser-Busch/InBev.…John McCain stands to receive a nice payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch, our colleagues over at Washington Wire report.…Now that Anheuser-Busch is for all intents and purposes sold, is St. Louis’s NFL team about to get sold, too. The Sports Business Journal is reporting that the St. Louis Rams have hired an investment bank to find a group of possible buyers.

Tidbits:
Our colleagues over at MarketBeat offer up a bailout scorecard.…How much will taxpayers have to dish out for the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how does that compare to the S&L bailout of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Portfolio.com’s Zubin Jelveh takes a look.…Seems everyone is trying to harness the wind. Blackstone Group unveiled an alliance with a German investment firm to build a wind farm in the North Sea costing more than $1.6 billion, according to Dealscape.

It’s funny because it’s true:
This headline is from The Onion, and pretty much sums up the current market conditions perfectly: “Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In“

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

Afternoon Reading: Will Lehman Take Its Ball and Go Home
Posted by Stephen Grocer
Will Lehman Brothers Holdings go private?

A day after Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst David Trone suggested Lehman go private, the New York Post is reporting that the Lehman CEO Dick Fuld “is seriously mulling a way to take itself private and out of the public eye.”

Lehman long has been subject to takeover speculation. The one problem: a dearth of plausible buyers, as Dealbreaker’s John Carney points out. So perhaps taking the Wall Street firm private makes sense.

Lehman’s has been hammered by concerns and rumors about its own survival. Its shares are down roughly 30% this year. That decline, according to Trone, has little to do with the Lehman’s liquidity and balance sheet, and more to do with investors’ pricing in the probability of a Bear Stearns-like run-on-the-bank. (See this Deal Journal post.)

Clearly, taking Lehman private would remove the pressure from short-sellers betting on the bank going the way of Bear Stearns. And at its current share price, Lehman would be buying itself on the cheap. Lehman’s shares are recently trading around $14. That means it’s worth less than the $8 billion that Lehman’s asset-management unit, formerly known as Neuberger Berman, could fetch. Writes Portfolio.com’s Felix Salmon:

“So at this point it makes perfect sense for CEO Dick Fuld to go private, sell off Neuberger Berman, and basically get the rest of the bank for free. Yes, there would be question marks over how reliable a private Lehman might be as a counterparty, but there are the same question marks over a public Lehman, too. And the private Lehman would still have the same access to the Fed’s discount window that the public Lehman has.”

Some Final Sips of Bud
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers up an aggregation of blog items and Twitter posts since July 14 that mention Anheuser-Busch/InBev.…John McCain stands to receive a nice payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch, our colleagues over at Washington Wire report.…Now that Anheuser-Busch is for all intents and purposes sold, is St. Louis’s NFL team about to get sold, too. The Sports Business Journal is reporting that the St. Louis Rams have hired an investment bank to find a group of possible buyers.

Tidbits:
Our colleagues over at MarketBeat offer up a bailout scorecard.…How much will taxpayers have to dish out for the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how does that compare to the S&L bailout of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Portfolio.com’s Zubin Jelveh takes a look.…Seems everyone is trying to harness the wind. Blackstone Group unveiled an alliance with a German investment firm to build a wind farm in the North Sea costing more than $1.6 billion, according to Dealscape.

It’s funny because it’s true:
This headline is from The Onion, and pretty much sums up the current market conditions perfectly: “Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In“

Can't believe I actually read the whole article. lol!

[nyalpine90]

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by nyalpine90

Why the sad face today Eddie?

[Miltzu]

Originally Posted by gongtowjai

One of my friends has a A5 and he is 22, fully paid for...

He indicated that his A5 is a chick magnet...

A5 was my #1 choice for a long time. 335 came in as a good second. Just didn't find any A5's with AT that I liked (did not have time to order one) so I ended up with 335. I still have an A5 as the desktop picture of my laptop at home

Not that I'm complaining with my 335...

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by Miltzu

A5 was my #1 choice for a long time. 335 came in as a good second. Just didn't find any A5's with AT that I liked (did not have time to order one) so I ended up with 335. I still have an A5 as the desktop picture of my laptop at home

Not that I'm complaining with my 335...

Milla, my favorite Finn!!!

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

idk, it all interests me


<-- nerd

Not only beautiful, but have brains too!!!

[nyalpine90]

[Bimmer335i07]

Originally Posted by ZGirl4U

i dont even care about cars... maybe ill stop driving

Yeah right, like that's ever going to happen!!!



You were just over the M coupe.