Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

So, your point is that there are people even crazier than Trump or Cruz in the race? And you actually listen to these people, like voluntarily?

Seriously, how does a fuckhead like that not get booed off the stage? Assuming the stage is not in Berlin and it is after 1944.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

I took it more like the ACLU filing suit to allow the American Nazi Party to march in Skokie. And it's an extreme example designed to offend liberals and those who remember the Holocaust, but I'm sure that many bakers or florists who are fundamentalist Christians or conservative Catholics aren't thrilled with being "forced" to sell cakes or corsages for same sex marriage. Or the white owners of diners and cafeterias in (mostly) the South who weren't thrilled with having to sell tuna salad on rye to blacks.

We can't pick and choose when it's ok for businesses* to discriminate based on the owner's political, religious, or racial/ethnic biases. So the Nazis get to buy their cake from the Jewish bakery regardless of the baker's (justified) anger about it.

*As opposed a church, for example. And yes there are all sorts of wrinkles regarding when a church or church-affiliated entity can refuse to hire or fire someone on religious grounds.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but -- maybe because of the other discussions going on -- I actually read it as "Jewish baNkers should be forced to bake cakes for Nazi weddings."

This is an Emily Latella moment. Never mind.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

Still finding great irony in Bernie Sander's campaign turning into a never-ending looped showing of the Citizen's United movie when he gets desperate.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

Lloyd Blankfein strikes me as a guy who could whip up a nice red velvet from scratch on short notice. By contrast, that dumb Mick running BoA (Brian Moynihan) would probably burn the Duncan Hines brownies. And trash the kitchen in the process.

#ASSLaw
 

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

As time goes on, these senior-moment mental lapses will provide more and more entertainment for us all.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

You act like the secret Goldman Sachs handshake promise wasn't made based on the promise of Hillary exerting her widely publicized and often acknowledged and significant influence over Obama and his administration on all matters. Try to keep up with world affairs. Sheesh.

TM

Re: does Bernie have Cuban bank accounts?
 

I want to know which gun companies paid Bernie how much for getting that bill through barring suits against gun companies.

But as long as Bernie keeps refusing to release his tax return, we'll never know.

Re: Arise, ye workers from your slumber.
 

No, you're not paying attention. Certain banks will be required to have larger reserves based on some subjective reading of which banks can hold the country hostage. It surely won't be all banks that make the current too-big-to-fail list because that would mean that lending would freeze instantly, businesses would start failing, and tons of jobs would be lost overnight--all at rates we saw in 2008--and the economy would destabilize in an immediate and sharp reversal.

I'm not against breaking up the banks in principle. I don't know how the fuck it gets accomplished, though (even if our legislature could accomplish researching, drafting, and passing such a bipartisan bill*). Since we're not talking about a monopoly like AT&T's when they agreed to break up, I don't think there is a legislative hammer that exists to make it happen. If the argument is that the hammer is the ability to raise reserve requirements, if I'm one of the big banks, I'd be happy to call that bluff. "You want to crash the economy by lowering the hammer because we don't want to break up our bank? Do your worst."

TM

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Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

Do you know any black people?

TM

Re: Arise, ye workers from your slumber.
 

Of course, right now, thanks to various exemptions, the big banks generally have lower reserves than community banks. http://www.bankregdata.com/allHMmet.asp?met=ONE

Re: Arise, ye workers from your slumber.
 

Now you're talking like this stuff is actually hard, and like sweeping policy pronouncements can actually have unexpected and undesired consequences.

You incrementalist, you.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

didn't she have a "not forced" in her original post?

Re: #ASSLaw
 

actually almost was my LS, got into GW the last day off wait list.