hot monkeys luv onions.

The judge should throw the book at both of them.

Wonder which one will blink first LOL

Dumb, just dumb. Although I am sure there is some equally dumb legal reasoning behind this joke. Maybe they will cut a deal out of court?

hello me

well, hello myself

This is what we have been saying, folk. They don't know and thanks to securitization probably cannot prove title. No doubt they laid off their bet, in both instances. It's like when you hit your number and Vinny says, "What number?"

Luci: Yes you can perjure yourself, but you won't enjoy it.

It's the sheath Lawyer stimulus package

Now tha's what I'm talkin' 'bout, g'dam't! A bank suing it's own self is just too g'dam perfect in this world.

Just good, clean fun all around.

I thought the research was going more siRNA

only if your rip van winkle will you live to see that

It seems that law and order in Pharonic egypt was much more modern and impartial than today's egypt.. who knew!

Law and order in ancient Egypt

Ah, Ray Stevens, where are you now?

YouTube - Ray Stevens- I'm my Own Grandpa

scored an entire box of .357 mag at walmart today. hoocoodanode!

if you don't make the jokes now you might not get the chance.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Eric Blair

Seriously, I suggested this years ago. Lock the lenders in a room and force them to trade paper to get all the liens with one lender/servicer. Looks like it wasn't such a good idea.

I think the only way to fix this is to devalue the currency in one big swoop. Take care of entitlements, debt payments and underwater homeowners in one fell swoop. Cram down the foreign creditors by about 25-30% and let them be thankful the US isn't Chrysler.

Tanta would have had a lot of fun and insight on this, having seen inside the bowels of the lenders. I assume this will get settled quickly:), especially after that story.

sue,

HTS.. That is pharmas version of SIVs.

sue, there is no fix, stop straining

they have sold, reshuffled, sliced, diced, made julienne fries out of every mortgage, credit card, car, boat, RV, CRE, HELOC and probably several litters of unregistered puppies and an alley cat.

nobody knows who owns what or who owes who or who got a cover on which bet

I've been thinking about an outside-the-box solution to this problem.

Suppose Joe Blow is 52 years old and seriously underwater. He's unemployed, has no money, and can't pay his mortgage. He's going to get foreclosed.

But instead, Obama says, Joe, we will let you avoid foreclosure, if you want, by commuting the future value of your Social Security benefits. Not promises of benefits, what it actually shows on your statement your benefits are estimated to be worth right now. The present value.

You have to use the money to pay off your mortgage on time, and you have to realize that if you're 65 and broke, you're on your own.

You might say that this can't happen because Social Security isn't guaranteed. It didn't use to be. But I think it is now.

I know people who a few years ago were talking about how they would donate their benefits to charity when they retired. They didn't need such a piddly sum. Now, it's become their lifeline.

After this recession is over, there will be tens of millions like that. I think people age 50 or over already are about a majority of the electorate.

Psychological dependence on Social Security now goes lower in age, certainly 50 and maybe 45.

Too many voters need the money too bad. Why shouldn't Obama go ahead and give it to them? And then just print more?

rich: because it is a bad idea

rich said:
Why shouldn't Obama go ahead and give it to them? And then just print more?

The days of Fedprint are numbered. 6 months and the markets balk? 2 years and IMF oversite? Who knows? Still on the time scales you posit it will be the reality.

sue,

HTS.. That is pharmas version of SIVs.

rich, your proposal is functionally the same as forgiving the loan. Paying off a loan from future social security, for people who have proven they cannot manage their money, simply creates the need in the future for another new program that pays that social security amount anyway. Just foreclose and get on with it.

Lucifer,

I really thought the quality of the combinatorial libraries made the whole screening process pretty useless. The companies with good compounds (generally the old german and swiss companies) use it very effectively. Everybody else which now includes NIH and 15-20 academic centers went down their own dark alley. Have you heard there might be a major breakthrough in Alzheimer's treatment , basis is nutritional deficiency.

"nutritional deficiency" Can you tell us more, sue? (I have a family history of Alzheimer's.)

"You have to use the money to pay off your mortgage on time, and you have to realize that if you're 65 and broke, you're on your own."

I doubt that this would work. They lose all their money, they're on the streets at 65, they're somebody's problem. They'll still cost society money, maybe more than if they were on SS. And because this is a democracy, influential parts of society can claim endless do-overs. We're seeing that among the powerful now.

Unless we get to the point where we as a society just put a gun to their heads and off 'em, equivalent of Eskimos putting the old out on ice floes to die. Not a good place to go. But if we did go, we should start now, on Wall Street.

(disclaimer for the Secret Service; no, I didn't mean it. Really. Irony irony irony)

rich - so the Feds would wipe out Joe's odious debt today and liquidate their odious obligation in the future...

I'm not sure I understand this country.

nytol

C

Let's say you gave me the grandido a month now from SS, that i'm due in just 16 short years?

What do I do for money when i'm 64?

I came here for info on hormones

Not the first time someone tried to sue themselves.

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can kcoop make the message box less laggy on the iPhone browser.

dawg, hold on tight.

puttiing italiics after my handle implies I said that

keep yer seat.

fried.

dont overpersonalize the survivior bias.

Patientrenter,

Couldn't agree more, I think we are going to try to do a little bit of everything. Default on some debt, devalue, raise taxes, reduce pensions and health care costs-the some of all the forces at play here just scream towards a one time devlaluation.

fried - i think this is the case.

thus, my prediction that many cities are going to be war zones sooner rather than later.

but that's just me.

Sounds like an Onion headline

sue, I hope a nice prime ribeye has a lot of fatty acids. If so, and the new theory is correct, I should be safe from Alzheimer's. (Tongue in cheek, of course.)

51 to 256 on a Saturday night....

76th

ignores 15

My educated guess :

Mortgage folks hold the first lien
Home Equity folks hold the second
They are different divisions and profit centers within WFC, hence the need for legal resolution.

I think you nailed it. But they might not even be separate profit centers - just different managers fighting for their bonus. A similar example from my [mfg] past...

I was calling on a big MNC [~$10B/yr rev - makes controls & similar stuff]... The Global Commodity Mgr I was calling on controlled stampings [metal parts stamped & formed out of sheets of metal]. He was asking us for 'cost downs'... meaning he wanted us to cut price so much per year [say 5%]. We were resisting since the margins were so tight already.

Turns out a number of these stampings then went into 'insert molded' plastic parts... meaning somebody took those stamped parts and molded plastic around them... similar to what you see on an electrical plug only these parts were way more expensive & complex.

I knew the Plastics Commodity Mgr too... so I asked the stamping mgr:

"Lets say we have this stamping... and it costs 10 cents. And after it is over molded costs a dollar... say we were to retool the stamping die to produce a part to make it easier to mold over... and lets say it increases the cost of the stamping by a penny but reduces the overall molded part by a dime [total cost now 91 cents versus a dollar]... would you as the stamping buyer approve that change?"

He said straight up - no blinking:

"No. I would have to oppose that proposal. In fact I would rather you found a way to cut the price of the stamping by a penny even if it increased the cost of the molded part by a dime [total cost $1.09]."

He then continued... "You see I get graded on my price variance no matter what. Same with the plastics commodity manager with his parts. If I took the increase... I get 'graded down' and he'd get 'graded up'... I'd get less bonus and he'd get more... even if the company benefits it would be in my best interest to find a quiet way to scuttle that proposal. If I let too many of those through I might even get fired."

They were using Welch's GE system for employee grading based on 'individual performance' and it very much incentivized managers to take care of number one regardless of what happened to the overall company.

I would not be shocked at all to find 'similar motivation' at work in the WF lawsuit.

I'm not sure that ribeye is going to cut it, maybe some salmon steaks.

Only one bank failure this week, guess the FDIC has a bunch of people taking a summer vacation this week.

dryfly.

Im still taking down hourly wages and cutting benefits packages, while burning inventory down to JIT..

I only come into this bar to hear a sad song.

how do I sleep, how do I look at my people and carry on?

solitary thinking and lonesome drinking.....

sure do feel at home round here.

Hey Scrooge,

It's amazing we extended somebody that much credit within 10 years of turning 18

Sounds like an Onion headline

Nah, too boring, here is a sample of real Onion headlines

Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of 'Change' To 'Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas'
WASHINGTON—In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration's message of "Change" has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan "Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas." "Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls for barely measurable and largely symbolic improvements in the status quo," said Obama, who vowed never to waver in his fight for every last infinitesimal nudge forward on the controversial issues of torture and the military ban on homosexuals. "Remember: Yes we can, if by that you mean tiptoeing around potentially unpopular decisions that could alienate a large segment of the populace." Washington insiders said that, while the new mottos are certainly in keeping with Obama's pledge of government transparency, they are significantly less catchy.

In Attempt To Jump-Start Economy, Obama Declares Tuesdays Ladies' Night
WASHINGTON—As part of his administration's continued efforts to stimulate the economy and liven up a slow weeknight, President Obama announced today that, effective immediately, Tuesdays will be half-off for ladies nationwide. "It is imperative to our economic health that we inject capital wisely and get some blondes in here, preferably hot young ones," said Obama, who submitted a proposal before Congress to increase tube-top usage by 200 percent. "We can only escape this recession with the full cooperation of the American people—so ladies, please, bring your girlfriends. When did this country turn into such a sausage fest?" According to estimates by the Department of the Interior, the first national Ladies' Night will be attended by an estimated 117 million men and one bachelorette party.

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's
Obama will abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, learning what to say when you burp

Reality has a long way to go before it can catch with art

In other news, there's another nice economic time series animation up for home prices by city, and income.

"The only other reason a utility would be significantly raising rates this year is because there may be a one-year lag in the mechanism to pass through the costs of purchasing gas to consumers."

Or if they hedged gas at the wrong price.

who wants a youtibe linky to Sarkozy fanny gazing?

I'll do it......

The utilities are raising rates because costs only go up for chartered monopolies.

CR writes: Your TARP money hard at work ...

But wait, there is more!

AIG Plans Millions More in Bonuses
Troubled Insurer Is In Talks With U.S. Over $250 Million

American International Group's recent discussions with President Obama's compensation czar have centered on whether the company should pay about $250 million in promised bonuses that come due during the next nine months.
AIG has asked the government to rule on several categories of bonuses, said a person familiar with the discussions. These include millions of dollars in payments owed to top corporate executives in coming days, and the troubled insurer has been seeking senior Treasury official Kenneth R. Feinberg's consent in an effort to provide the company with political cover.
But of greater concern to both sides is what to do about the vastly larger sum that comes due in March 2010, when AIG is scheduled to pay more than $200 million in bonuses aimed at retaining executives at AIG Financial Products, the unit whose complex derivative contracts nearly wrecked the insurance giant last fall.
A public furor erupted earlier this year when AIG paid about $165 million in retention bonuses to Financial Products employees. The contracts that guaranteed those awards also promised similar payments in March 2010, and AIG has been examining the issue in hopes of preventing another debacle, company officials have said.
...
AIG spokeswoman Christina Pretto said the company had sought the government's input in an effort to resolve its lingering pay issues the right way and to make sure all parties were comfortable before moving forward.
"We all have the same objective -- to execute the restructuring successfully, to repay taxpayers, to reduce risk and to wind down [Financial Products]," Pretto said.

I really need another glass

dryfly;
"That big MNC I mentioned is doing all of that too - except they also then expect their suppliers to bail them out if JIT is not quite in time. Always worked before but isn't going to happen this time... their suppliers are all going bye-bye."

That was a scary story you told - the self-destructive GE-isms. BTW, nice to see that GE is getting theirs lately. I have seen those same sort of self-destructive HR games in large software development operations - and you wonder why so much software is garbage...

Before long, the remaining suppliers will be dictating terms, unless the MNCs can find a country someplace that is willing to finance the creation of new suppliers, or the MNCs can bring parts production in house. I wonder which they will try first?

And if I stop working I buy food with what?
Can't live in my car, still owe on it.

Not a box I can check.

"The contracts that guaranteed those awards also promised similar payments in March 2010, and AIG has been examining the issue in hopes of preventing another debacle, company officials have said."

A BK sure would have been helpful in renegotiating those contracts. Plus, wiping out all of the naked CDS they are on the hook for. Of course GS and UBS might not like that too much.

Stop working. Seriously, it's the only way to get them to quit stealing - if they have no way of stealing it.

Call it Paradox of Working<a/>

RD,
Versus IPP's who have so successfully driven down the cost of electricity in this country and brought innovation to the marketplace? You gonna argue that energy marketing and trading arms of the financial firms have not more fully exploited PJM and NYISO deregulated markets as compared to the CA market in early '00's? I've worked too long on the dereg side to be fooled by the old standby that chartered utilities are the devil's kin.

Of course GS and UBS might not like that too much.

That is why it is not going to happen

"They were using Welch's GE system for employee grading based on 'individual performance' and it very much incentivized managers to take care of number one regardless of what happened to the overall company."

Same thing at Dell, another big Welsh subscriber, every department trying to push costs off on each other, with no one in charge of the big picture view. Tons of special "costs savings" efforts that get used once, bonused an quickly discarded as impractical. Total dysfunction. If it were not for the inertia of those few who know what they are doing, they might as well shut down.

Same. Nytol.

You might want to read about church's fascination with the appearance of the devil's penis.

Wisdom,
The supply pipeline is getting very narrow. My nephew is having problems with durable medical equipment. Certain types of construction materials are out of stock. I already mentioned patio furniture at Target. I expect the next step will be a reduction in SKUs. Then the reality hits home maybe this fall when spot shortages in fresh foods shows up in some regions. Maybe it starts with raspberries at Thanksgiving but it will spread to things taken for granted like year round oranges.

CR community to wells fargo

"slap yourself"

Amending one of Gen. Patton's famous quotes, I've decided that it applies to our current working system of capitalism/merchantlism/etc:

It isn't important that you spend your money for the economy; it's important for the idiot on the other side to spend his money for the economy.

It seems to apply to the growth of the Asian Tigers, Wall Street, and other areas. China grew through our consumption just as Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea did before it. Wall Street got fat from finding other people who could be parted from their money (investors) and other people who could be expected to deplete lines of credit (debtors). As long as you were on the right side of equation, you could expect favorable results. However, once the number of people on the other side declined or were depleted, there isn't much you can do except sacrificing your "own". Even at that point, there will be a point where the new "right side" of the equation gets low and either the "left side" is affected through its own attrition or rinsing & repeating previous steps.

Maybe Pres. Duyba wasn't wrong after 9/11 to get the America flock to spend again. We just misidentified where we fit into the equation. *

• I use the word "we" loosely.

"Maybe Pres. Duyba wasn't wrong after 9/11 to get the America flock to spend again. "

The problem is that most of that consumer activity was spent on low-value crap overseas and a gigantic portion of it involved imaginary housing wealth.

In southern california, at least a third of the population has seen their household lose at least 200K in housing equity value. That is a wee bit deflationary.

The problem is that most of that consumer activity was spent on low-value crap overseas and a gigantic portion of it involved imaginary housing wealth.

Again, Dubya's "Patton" executed his strategies correctly. He got the "other side's" people to financially die for their cause (low-value crap and inflated housing wealth) instead of having his side die for their cause (centralizing wealth and socialized their costs).

I'm not sure if I could call it a Ponzi Scheme under this situation, or the line is rather gray and hazy. Yes, people were lead astray, but they weren't really trying to not being separated from the flock.

As to the last thread, I had pointed out the deterrence issue clearly in the thread to the prior post about modifications.

These expected numbers (recovery, redefault, self-cure...) change when large masses of the "other side" of a trade (borrowers) gain easy access to cheap information about "market prices". "Moral" considerations about making or paying back a loan don't adapt nearly as fast as a granny learns Googling. 'It was just business, Mikey, I always liked you'.

Great.. I probably won a billion dollars

Retail Probably Rose, Factory Slump Eased: U.S. Economy Preview
Retail Probably Rose, Factory Slump Eased: U.S. Economy Preview - Bloomberg.com
By Shobhana Chandra

July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Retail sales in the U.S. probably increased in June for a second straight month and factory production fell at a slower pace as the recession abated, economists said before reports this week. Sales gained 0.4 percent after a 0.5 percent increase in May, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey before the Commerce Department’s report on July 14. The next day, Federal Reserve figures may show industrial output fell 0.6 percent last month after a 1.1 percent drop in May.

Charcoal can be made from bankers..

//A shortage of charcoal briquettes?//

Patently ridiculous. When I sued myself, I didn't bother with outside help, I self represented on both sides. My counsel advised arbitration, but the other side was playing hard ball. But by brilliant legal maneuvering I managed to outsmart the other side and won a huge award, although there may be trouble, since we're asking the judgment be set aside, since the judge (also myself) clearly had conflicts of interests and should have recused himself. (Some allegations of a sexual liaison too, but let's not go there.) Why did I sue myself? Two words "Deep pockets"

I hope Wells Fargo counter sues. Maybe for spurious and malicious prosecution or defamation of character. It would also be particularly delicious if the defendants, led by Wells Fargo, really stick it to the plaintiff.

PS. I randomly assumed Lucifer is a she

Wow, that would be a level of self loathing that I can't imagine. And yet the idea of her(?) lesbian encounters with hookers is intriguing.

Dawg, a link you probably haven't read

Should California be broken up as a State, and if so how? (X-Posted from CA forum) - Democratic Underground

"Should California Be Broken Up?"

Morning, all.

Looks like another fine summer morning here in scenic south carolina.

I expected that from you broward

here's something worth a scan, pinched from Naked Capitalism:

http://www.themistrading.com/article_files/0000/0348/Toxic_Equity_Trading_on_Wall_Street_12-17-08.pdf 

Morning all from the Mary-Nam free-fire zone too.

I think from the comments during the dark bit that Wells is going to take itself all the way to the Supremes, and Hoops will make a mint repping both sides of the play.

Nice work, if you can invent it.

C

Broward: the upshot of the link I posted is that it explains what some have been observing

they say things like, there's a low volume and only a few traders

thay say this doesn't bode well for the direction of the market

They see the action and scratch their heads, and wait. They're savvy enough to stay out of the way of a steam roller.

Russell knows what the technicals are telling him.

And what effect will this have on the PPT? A growing gang of far removed traders with programs running on all the stocks on all the exchanges, scrapping over a 1/4 cent per share difference. And more coming on line every day.

The genie and the lamp and breathing fresh air and all that.

broward--you had transgendered hookers in class?

seriously, folk, the fact they have the deck stacked, AND they're watching through the security cams for 1/4 cent 'opportunities', is just one more in a litany of surfacing information that led you and I and a few others to leave the casino early. Now, more and more are appreciating in their awareness and realization the sagacity of our decision. Not just us lunatic fringe--the street types as well.

dey be trowin de cat down, poor widdle puddy tat, done dead, mebbe it don hurt none

Automated market makers co-locate their servers in the NASDAQ or the NYSE building, right next to the exchanges’ servers. AMMs already have faster servers than most institutional and retail investors. But because they are co-located, their servers can react even faster.

Front-running at the hardware level.

GS needs to buy Intel to move forward.

I'm not completely joking.

GS buying Intel could be extremely creepy.
Many possibilities.

Roofus: ya think!?

remember the fourth function of bureaucracy:

4) CYOA

all it takes is one risk averse bureaucrat to get approval on cutting losses at another party's detriment

I liked this part:
WHAT CAN BE DONE? . . .
1. Make orders valid for at least one second.

Daytrading is so last century.

(Sears, where America shops in July for xmas crap...)

Oh the market conditions are frightful
But the schadenfreude is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let It Blow! Let It Blow! Let It Blow!

It doesn’t show signs of stopping
And I’ve bought some corn for popping
Expectations are turned way down low
Let It Blow! Let It Blow! Let It Blow!

When we finally kiss it goodbye
How I’ll love watching sheep being shorn
But if you think that money’s tight
It’s because of the Wall*Street whores

Wall*Street is slowly dying
And, my dear, people are still denying
But as long as you’ve hidden away your dough
Let It Blow! Let It Blow! Let It Blow!

Ya'll come on down, ya hear?
Summer Redneck Games

This case will put satirists out of work, add to the unemployed.

broward: right and it probably makes scant difference, what was I thinking, whatever system they use will be subverted and abused

Gnome - that RedneckGames looks promising. Do they do the propane tank on the bonfire thing at the end of the show?

The key is to set it upside down, with the fittings in the embers. Guarantees a good launch. (Otherwise the expansion goes sideways and you get shrapnel imbedded in the camper sidings, small children, coolers etc).

C

the tubing fail should be titled:

Does this swim suit make my butt look big?

Fail blog always perks me up after a few too many hours of "gloom and doom"...

Counterpointer, thanks for the tip!

Right-o!

Orwell's Fargo

A Coen Brothers production.

starring Geo Clooney and Brad Pitt

again

Shhh! Lothar, you'll wake the adults.

"I think the only way to fix this is to devalue the currency in one big swoop."

.....as volker so eloquently pointed out.......there is no fix for this......

BTW, per up thread, have you EVER known a person that moved to Irvine? They are TOTALLY different. Their lives must be completely controlled for them: "All garage doors shall not be left open for any periods longer than 15-minutes". The Mrs and I toured a house in an HOA development (all houses are HOA) decades ago and she had to kick me innumerable times as I kept drilling the RE gal about their "gestapo calibre" homeowner rules. Lets not forget the "Overnite Guest Application Form" - now THAT was a hoot.

I grew up straddling the OC/LA county line, and things were always much different behind the Orange Curtain...

It was full of John Birchers in the 1960's.

.......I probably had to go through your community driving to the beach, AMF (down Hacienda - Beach Blvd.)

I lived across the street from some JB's a few years ago.
Complete with their 8' *4' "Get the US out of the UN" front yard sign.
The gentleman of the home had a FFL and the UPS truck pulled up everyday...

Glad I moved...

JD sure does raise some suspicious subjects

"...anyone else ever get Access denied when they clicked on save?"

no, but I have received some sternly worded emails from several moderators

.......JD just explained it all.........living on the OC/LA border did that to people. You lose all your identity. Nobody wants to be known as being from Norwalk, Whittier, or La Mirada........it's a hideous existence........I know..........messes up your entire childhood....

......the teacher or the Bircher?

The Bircher, obviously.

How true, Volker.

HomeGnome (homepage, profile) wrote on Sun, 7/12/2009 - 5:53 am

As an early predictor of the United States housing bubble, Calculated Risk developed a "cult following" and influence over US fiscal policy.
Calculated Risk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm curious; what US fiscal policies has CR influenced?

The ridicule that was heaped on Super Duper SIV probably had something to do with its quick withdrawal.

robdawg you mean the 3 page order paulson gave out?

Leave Milkshake out of it.

LOL......soon..............we had an exciting day here yesterday..........all the cows, calves & chickens were loose - 108-degrees and everyone's running around loose like there's someplace nicer to go. What a zoo. Didn't get everyone settled until late last night. Milk yield will be crap today.

The ridicule that was heaped on Super Duper SIV probably had something to do with its quick withdrawal.

Questionable.
Hasn't worked on Bernanke or Geithner yet.

If we're going to be a cult, I'm going to have to make some Bernanke and Geithner voodoo dolls.

you people, I swear

BSR, Funnnny, Hope Milkshake is OK.

Morning C

somebody find JD a measuring table

I wonder if I could monetize my time on line in service to my country....

"How deep is your well, and where do you hit water at? "

.....most water here in the valley is hit at about 100-feet. Most wells NOW are drilled to 140-feet. Ours are deeper than that. Two deeper community wells are at 795 and 850-feet.

....LOL.........gotta go milk........later......

Viva Tanta!
Doris Dungey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

Couldn't be a Complete UberNerd without her writings.

Michael Jackson is the Beer Hunter!
Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Books & Publications

Gulag Ameripelago?

"There would be a very downscale place where destitute seniors who had spent down their SS prematurely could go and get basic food, cothing and shelter. But not life-prolonging medicare care."

I went hiking in the Florida Alps a few years back...

I got scared of widths, not heights~

I look forward to going scuba-diving in downtown Miami in the not too distant future.

What does everyone think another of these will do to our eCONomy?
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 / Stormpulse / Hurricanes, severe weather, tracking, mapping

She was one mean girl!

The mergers and acquisitions didn't work out as expected.

• depends upon your objective. If you wanted to kill the competition, gut their pension plan, and sell the factory overseas, and grab a big bonus for your efforts, I'd say it worked out exactly as expected.