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Other than Al being krazy, he lost.
Al is finished. Bill and Kevin can work on it until hell freezes over and you will have no more than you have now.
The only thing that gave him power at one point was Hughes' money. Once he no longer had that behind him, his power was gone.
Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia. Britanicca is an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is an online blog contributed to by anyone who wants to do so. Sometimes the information is good and sometimes it isn't.
You must be the most gullible person on the planet.
So you think he lied under oath? Not a very nice thing to do to your hero.
Wikipedia is well known for often being incorrect particulary where people make their own entries.
If you just want justice then why keep posting about a mythical ROI?
How long do you haved to sit around not getting anything until it becomes a fact? It is a fact that you have received nothing and it is a fact that there isn't any real prospects of getting anything unless you believe the Queen is going to send you a check which has a probability factor of 0.
If that is the criteria then I was a close confidant of them also.
I said so.
According to who? Maheu?
You don't state "facts," you make them up as you go along.
BTW - Just because someone says something doesn't make it a fact. Supporting evidence is required.
And where does it say he was a close confidant of the Kennedy's?
I am suprised to see FXEN nudging up against $10 again.
Apparently you are the only one who knows that little tidbit of information. I guess it was a "secret" relationship.
S&P cuts Ireland credit grade over bank debt fears
S&P cuts Ireland's credit rating over fears that Dublin's banking black hole could get bigger
Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press,
DUBLIN (AP) -- Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut its credit grade for Ireland on Wednesday and warned it could fall further because of doubts about the true scale of defaulting loans yet to surface in the country's largely state-owned banks.
S&P joined fellow agencies Moody's and Fitch in dropping Ireland's credit score following the nation's November negotiation of a potential euro67.5 billion ($93 billion) credit line from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. Ireland already has drawn down euro8.4 billion ($11.6 billion) this year from that rescue fund -- and plowed much of it straight into the cash-strapped coffers of Dublin banks.
Still, S&P's reduction Wednesday was just one notch to A minus, one step above the multi-grade cuts imposed last month by Moody's and Fitch. Both dropped Ireland into the higher-risk BBB tier in the immediate wake of the EU-IMF bailout deal. The BBB level is considered the lowest investment-grade rating, whereas BB and lower indicate "junk bond" status.
S&P senior analyst Frank Gill warned the agency could also drop Ireland's rating somewhere into the BBBs in April, once a new Irish government settles in and the impact of the current infusion of EU-IMF cash into Dublin banks can be assessed.
The S&P announcement coincided with Wednesday's formal launch of campaigning for Ireland's Feb. 25 election. The free-market government of Prime Minister Brian Cowen -- who presided over the country's spectacular collapse from Celtic Tiger success in 2007 to a bank-crippled debtor today -- is universally forecast to be ousted from power in favor of a left-leaning coalition.
The two parties expected to form the next coalition government, Fine Gael and Labour, are both campaigning on promises to reopen negotiations with the EU and IMF to loosen some of the strings attached to the aid deal.
Both question Cowen's determination to slash euro15 billion ($21 billion) from the economy over the next four years through spending cuts and tax hikes. Troublingly, the two would-be government partners criticize Cowen's brutal austerity effort from opposite extremes, with Fine Gael favoring more cuts and Labour insisting on more taxes for the rich.
Gill warned that Ireland's economic forecasts presume that the total bank-bailout bill funded by taxpayers won't top euro50 billion ($70 billion) while the current unemployment rate of 13.4 percent -- near a 17-year high -- will stabilize in 2011 and decline in 2012.
He noted the total debts of the six Irish banks -- Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, Irish Life & Permanent, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide and Educational Building Society -- actually approach euro275 billion ($375 billion), more than 170 percent of Ireland's gross domestic product.
"Irish domestic banks currently depend almost entirely on the (European Central Bank) to refinance expiring market debt," Gill said.
"Were the labor market to deteriorate further, a rise in the level of delinquencies in the domestic banks' mortgage books could result in higher new capital requirements than we presently assume," Gill said.
On the flip side, he said Ireland's prospects would be boosted if European Union leaders agree to change its bailout rules, which currently require donors to tack a profit margin on its loans of approximately 3 percentage points.
That means Ireland's EU-IMF loan package comes with an average interest rate of 5.8 percent rather than the donors' actual financing costs of 2.8 percent. This premium will add tens of billions to Ireland's annual deficits, which last year soared to a modern European record of 32 percent of GDP.
European leaders are also planning to discuss this week possible bailout-rules reforms that would make it easier for governments to negotiate hefty discounts on repayments to a bank's foreign creditors. Ireland so far has repaid tens of billions to those banks and hedge funds rather than risk poisoning the country's credit worthiness with a major default.
Ireland's government and main opposition parties remain publicly committed to a goal of slashing the deficit to just 3 percent of GDP by 2014, the limit that eurozone members are supposed to observe.
But that plan presumes Ireland's economy will grow by at least 2 percent each year, whereas the most recent forecasts from the Irish Central Bank and the Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland's main think tank, expect much weaker growth if any in 2011.
I think the name was actually acquired with the pen company.
There is some merit to your assumption that overall Irish bank news relates to AIB as well as the other banks. The actions of the Irish government and the EU tends to affect them all even though the specifics relating to each individual bank differ.
It is not a pretty picture for any of the Irish banks at the moment along with a number of other banks in Europe.
Isn't the Hartcourt name valuable?
That question renders me speechless.
The question should be.... Why would we want this shell?
Who is my employer? Be specific so we will know if you are just making things up or not.
Court records show the $110,000 was awarded
Awarded to who? Link to the court records? Or are you just making it up?
Your DD obviously wan't very complete...
Since CMKX never had any diamonds I don't see how any of that would apply.
How does a delisted stock "EXPLODE?"
The article doesn't really tell us anything about the content of the bill.
Seanad passes Finance Bill
The Finance Bill did not have to go to the Dáil last night after the Seanad passed the Bill by 30 votes to 20 without accepting any Opposition amendments.
The closest vote was on bank bonuses when the three Green Party senators voted against the Government on the Labour Party recommendation seeking to identify all bank executives, employees and contractors who had received bonuses from State covered institutions since the bank guarantee was introduced in September 2008. The provision was defeated by 26 votes to 25.
What Senate passed what bill?
What is it about CMKX that attracted all the mentally ill people in the US?
Rockwell Automation Inc. (ROK):
Industrial Electrical Equipment Industry. Market cap of $10.62B. The stock is currently 10.84% above its 20-day MA, 15.26% above its 50-day MA, and 35.73% above its 200-day MA. Current dividend yield at 1.87% vs. industry average at 1.16%. Dividend growth rate over the past five years at 9.36% vs. industry average at 4.95%. TTM Payout Ratio at 39.47% vs. industry average at 32.07%. Short float at 2.35%, which implies a short ratio of 3.35 days. The stock has gained 65.5% over the last year.
I just put some more cash in my daughter's ROK DRIP two weeks ago. Glad I didn't procrastinate.
William Windsor must be another delusional Xer.
But.... FXEN's stock price is going up so I am temporarily happy :)
Gasoline at the pump is skyrocketing but natural gas prices aren't doing much.
It has been over for 5 years they just don't have the courtesy to let it die.
So how much has been collected?.... That's what I thought.
And even if there was a remote possibility of that, what is $34 million divided by 703 billion? After deductions for debts like salaries and legal fees?
"Untested samples".... you are very amusing.
Emerson doesn't have squat.
Game over.
The stock is dead... It is just the krazy xers that will not die.
So are wolverines but you don't want to mess with them.
We'll see, but we have discussed the backlog from cities on several occasions. Lots of cities have put off capital equipment purchases but those fire trucks and garbage trucks are just getting older and can't be held together with baling wire forever.
Too bad.... that would have made for some very interesting testimony.
True but I am not sure he is bi-polar..... Maybe just a run of the mill sociopath.