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Or the gov't contracts with an advisor to get the gov't the best price and the advisor sells on behalf of the gov't taking a % of the sale as a fee. In that case, the only way to sell that kind of block is via a dark pool. And no, there is no rascism or light pools. The "dark" only means you can't see price, volume or counetrparty until you have already agreed on the price and volume; without knowing the counterparty. Spend much time on the Street...dude?

Yep. Ding ding ding!! Way to go Kelly!

Simple, unload it in Dark Pools. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pools_of_liquidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_liquidity

Post of the year so far!! Bravo sir.

Can't wait till TO and Lee torch this guy and he has to say "Vontae gave up 3 TDs today cause Vontae got toasted."

Unfotunately, so am I.

True, but if he really has top 10 talent and has a fire under his a$$, this could be a great pickup.

Leonard Smith http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/360473.jpg...84831B75F48EF45 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...v%3D2%26hl%3Den Neitehr show the back mullet. He had one though. Mitch Ferotte - the super mullet! http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2008-06/39919305.jpg EDIT: I love Mitch even more after reading this... http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DX

Hadn't thought about that, but it would be brilliant.

To try and at least be fair, working in a local community bank as an assistant manager trainee is very different than trading fixed income at Goldman. (I have no idea what he does, but proffering a guess) Anyone else feel like you were talking to concrete?

But, but, but...you mean, if we have to pay higher taxes, we'll have to cut jobs to stay competitive? Ooops. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/artic...set=&ccode=

Did you even READ the link I sent you to...the treatise on Securities Activities of Banks? If so, perhaps you missed the regulatory timeline that begins on page 1-10, detailing the various agency decisions beginning in 1970 that chipped away at GS. By 1999 and the repeal of certain portions of GS, there was no separation anyway. Therefore, your statement that the repeal of GS caused this mess by permitting commerical banks to enter into business activities they were otehrwise prohibited to enter is clearly erroneous.

And Elizabeth Warren is complete simpleton who knows very little about the financial world.

Some type of Viagra drug? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Atqh...o&type=lgns EDIT: The drug is HCG. Dead to rights, steroids. HCG is known for being the hormone detected by home pregnancy tests. In men, it is used to treat hypogonadism and infertility because it causes you to produce testosterone, which is necessary for sperm production. HCG is unequivocally used to quickly boost your natural levels back to normal after anabolics deplete them on a typical cycle.

This is your problem right here. You see, none of us actually have anything "memorized." We work in these worlds and understand how they actually operate. So, if someone asks a question, we try to respond with knowledge in our heads. Follow-up questions may involve a bit of research. Memorizing someone else's work is never an issue. It is understanding the various elements, how they interrelate and thinking about the consequences of actions in a logical fashion.

Per ESPN Major League Baseball announced Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating its drug policy. The commissioner's office didn't announce the specific violation by Ramirez, but in a statement Thursday provided by Major League Baseball, Ramirez attributed the violation to medication he had been prescribed by a doctor. "Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me," Ramirez said. "Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy. Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised not to say anything more for now. "I do want to say one other thing; I've taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons. I want to apologize to [Dodgers owner Frank] McCourt, Mrs. McCourt, [manager Joe] Torre, my teammates, the Dodger organization, and to the Dodger fans. LA is a special place to me and I know everybody is disappointed. So am I. I'm sorry about this whole situation." After consultation with the Players' Association and his personal representatives, Ramirez waived his right to challenge the suspension. He will lose about one-third of his $25 million salary.

Thats the one!

While I agree wholeheartedly with you, and I am very glad that this worked out for these students, the wisdom of carrying a gun in a backpack to a college drinking party is questionable.

Not really. See, instead of linking to a newspaper article, I will link you to the definitive legal treatise on this subject, "Securities Activities of Banks," by Melanie Fein (a book, BTW, I have on my shelf) and you can read about it yourself. GS was neutered primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, when securities activities really took off. Essentially, GS was created to make commercial banking a utility function, rather than a dynamic business. You've heard the phrase "banker's hours?" Well thats where it came from. Investment banking, on the other hand, was the dynamic, risk-taking business that drove so much innovation. Commercial bankers chipped away at the securities activities they could engage in for years, before finally winning the war in the 1990s, well before the relevant provisions of GS were repealed. Happy reading. Securities Activities of Banks

Only to the extent that Lynch is missing the first few games of the year which puts more pressure on our passing game and on Fred Jackson. Otherwise, no, not all. When I was 22-24 years old, I did some pretty stupid drunken things as well. They would have been exacerbated had I been a famous millionaire NFL player.

No, no it did not. Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, which repealed Glass Stegal, basically codified existing court decisions relating to the breaking down of barriers between commercial and investment banks. Essentially, since Glass Stegal was passed, the commercial banks had been chipping away at it via the courts to try and get access to the more profitable investment banking activities (which they assumed they could do better, due to their larger balance sheets). So, at the time the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act was passed there was precious little new activities that banks (commercial or investment) could do. The biggest changes in that law related to merchant banking, not separation of commercial and investment banking (which had largely been done away with via 70 years of court decisions).

Karma right. F*7k the fans and move the team, get to play in Cup finals and then win Cup a few years later. Methinks the hockey gods screwed that one up.

You want to goose the economy, for real? Offer U.S. companies a one-time 6 month window where they can repatriate overseas dollars tax-free provided the money goes to create jobs or in capital investment. Watch how fast the economy rockets forward for 5 years off that little 6 month window. Of course, then the gov't would not have control over where the money was spent....

Very true. Here's a link that details Garner's life after football. Pretty sad. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,...53,00.html?pg=1

I agree with you. The human interest stuff is nice, but my patience for it is wearing thin given all the losing. I really don't care what guys like Lynch or Whitner do in the offseason, provided they bring it on fall sundays. To the extent they can't bring it on fall sundays due to offseason issues, then I care. Kelly/Bruce/Reed etc. were no choirboys. If the internet, cell-phone cameras and the break down of the good ol boys network existed in the early 90s, a lot more offseason crap would have been known. Guess what, I don't care. They brought it on fall sundays. Tim, nice article. I do wish you had covered a few more of the football related items such as weight (keep it or lose it), speed and possible role for Maybin (every down or one trick pony) in the piece (although I understand such information may not be known).