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Or, should I say, Spiro Agnew???????????????????????????????
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jun 26, 2008 11:38 am)  Ford and GM stocks are in the dumper (along with most everything else), and oil has popped $140 a bbl. Looks like the plant closings are just going to continue. Toledo Jeep workers to be laid off for 7 weeks Ford starts another round of buyouts for local hourly workers Final GM workers accepting buyout to leave Friday On the less gloomy side: St. Paul Ford plant may get reprieve (Ford Rangers are made there and they are relatively fuel-efficient). |
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Replying to: steve_ (Jun 26, 2008 12:42 pm) and those who have studied political history. My portfolio has been crushed over the past week or so. Just a couple of weeks ago I was up more then 13 percent for the year while the wider market was down almost that much. Now I am up only 3.33 percent so still beating the wider market considerably but much worse off then I was before. I have to sit down this weekend and figure out what I need to do to recover some of that lost ground. |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jun 26, 2008 2:57 pm) I am wondering if I will have much left by this weekend. They say it is the worst June since 1930. That is not a good sign for any of us. The smart UAW guys are taking whatever buyout they are offered and heading out of Michigan.
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Replying to: british_rover (Jun 26, 2008 2:57 pm) |
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Replying to: british_rover (Jun 26, 2008 2:57 pm) Good opportunity for you to buy that Ford stock you wanted to buy during the last dip. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Jun 26, 2008 5:47 pm) I screwed my self a couple of months ago by not getting out when I said I would and it cost me about seven percent in gains. I have three stocks that are up over 20% year to date and one that is up almost 30% but those winners are barely enough to swallow my losses in UPS, UTX and BA. I should have sold UTX or BA a while ago but I screwed up and held onto them. Now I gotta decide if I should dump them and take my lumps or try and ride it out. |
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those of us car nuts who really love the particular car they buy, will buy, tiny Matchbox and Hot Wheel models of our cars. I recently found one of the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution(in Rally Red like my Lancer GTS!!) and pert-near jumped around like Kobe Bryant after Kevin Garnett elbowed him in the head real hard, during the pleasing recent Laker NBA Finals loss. I snapped it up like another Gary Payton steal from Michael Jordan in 1996. I asked the guy stocking at Wal*Mart if they were getting the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS in any time soon, he took a mental note of my question and told me some more stock was soon to arrive but my car didn't ring a bell with him. Recently in Tucson I went to a hobby shop and spent 20 minutes or so looking hard for my '08 Mitsu Lancer GTS in "Revell plastic type" model form. One of the workers echoed my sentiment that its hard to find imports in these hobby shops. I would order one in a heartbeat on the net if I could find one. Nevertheless, I put my Hot Wheel model Rally Red 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO on top of my computer monitor at home. Just in front of the 1965 Ford Mustang baby blue convertible metal model on there. They're constant reminders to me of my two favorite car body designs of all time. Even though I do slightly favor my '08 Lancer GTS over the '08 Lancer EVO body. Oh, yeah, models are so cool.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jun 26, 2008 3:20 pm) Smart ones are far out numbered by dumb ones who are still holding on expecting Feds to bailout GM with tax payer dollars from filing C-11.
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Replying to: irnmdn (Jun 28, 2008 4:42 am) When the UAW went on strike this year at the Kansas Malibu plant and the Lansing crossover plant it would have been all out war if I was GM CEO. Those strikes were just retaliatory over the AA strike. The UAW members and leadership are so obsessed with their own importance that they cannot see the impending doom. By contrast Monterey MX is booming. Maybe the UAW should send a team down to see what their secret is. They have Unions also. Maybe it is the willingness to please the employer that is the secret to their success. A short list of American companies doing business in greater Monterrey: McDonald's, General Motors, Caterpillar, Ford, Motorola, IBM, Emerson Electric, Du Pont, Dow Corning, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart, Union Carbide, and Stone Container. Other foreigners with operations in the area include Germany's BASF, Belgium's Bekaert Group, and Italy's Metecno. "We have more visits these days from foreign companies eager to set up a joint venture," says Rafael R. Paez, president and chief executive officer of Grupo Industrial Alfa, a $2.5 billion steel, petrochemicals, and food conglomerate. Ironically Mexicans from Monterey are coming up to TX and buying foreclosed properties. They have money to spend. The money our workers pushed South.
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