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Rockslinger

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Would you buy any Facebook shares from Goldman "The Evil Empire" Sachs:confused:? I would never buy anything from GS. They win, you lose. The odds are stacked hugely against you. Why would GS sell you anything that would pocket a profit for you? They keep all the good stuff and dump the crap on suckers like you and Merrill Lynch.
 

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Would you buy any Facebook shares from Goldman "The Evil Empire" Sachs? I would never buy anything from GS. They win, you lose.
I would buy GS shares when they are back to less than $160/share, or I get the same preferred share, double-digit yields like Warren Buffett. :cool:

The odds are stacked hugely against you. Why would GS sell you anything that would pocket a profit for you? They keep all the good stuff and dump the crap on suckers like you and Merrill Lynch.
LOL, not going to happen to me since I am no high net worth and when I say high net worth, I mean 9 figures of investable USD/CAD cash at the disposal.

BTW, funny to notice you mention Merrill Lynch. Do you mean Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearn? Merrill is now part of Bank of America, while Bear Stearn is part of JP Morgan.
 

Rockslinger

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I would buy GS shares when they are back to less than $160/share, or I get the same preferred share, double-digit yields like Warren Buffett.
If you can't beat them join them but remember that you stand in line AFTER they paid their partners $500 billion in bonuses. That $500 billion is not on the table for shareholders like you and you. I think Warren bought convertible preferreds so he is guaranteed a yield.
 

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BTW, funny to notice you mention Merrill Lynch. Do you mean Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearn? Merrill is now part of Bank of America, while Bear Stearn is part of JP Morgan.
Actually, I think the biggest buyer of GS flogged shit is UBS.
 

hinz

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If you can't beat them join them but remember that you stand in line AFTER they paid their partners $500 billion in bonuses. That $500 billion is not on the table for shareholders like you and you. I think Warren bought convertible preferreds so he is guaranteed a yield.
Who say investing GS is a buy and hold like BRK.A/B?

Maybe for PM or BTI. :cool:

BTW, don't be surprised next Goldman SPV could be buying out Smith & Wesson or investing in Freedom Group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Group
 

hinz

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Actually, I think the biggest buyer of GS flogged shit is UBS.
Funny, the last time I heard was AIG, which pretty much explain why Secretary Paulsen did everything to bail out that sucker now known as All Investment Gone. :rolleyes:
 

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Does anyone seriously think Facebook is worth $50 billion? Would you rather own Facebook or Royal Bank of Canada? Would you rather own Facebook or Potash Corporation?
 

hinz

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Does anyone seriously think Facebook is worth $50 billion? Would you rather own Facebook or Royal Bank of Canada? Would you rather own Facebook or Potash Corporation?
Not smart enough to figure out the dollars and sense/profitability behind Facebook business model, namely a captive community/platform for big corporations to market/shill their products based on segmentation or target audience or whatever. :confused:

BTW, RY is a bargain around mid 40s, while POT is too expensive IMHO.
 

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Investing in Facebook...Goldman Style

http://dailyreckoning.com/investing-in-facebook-goldman-style/

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Addison Wiggin

Gee, we couldn’t possibly have seen this coming: Goldman Sachs says
they’ll stop taking orders from its “high net worth” clients for
shares of Facebook. And some of those clients have been told they’ll
have to settle for far fewer shares than they want, so intense is
the demand.

This is according to The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar
with the situation” – as if Goldman doesn’t really want this
information put out there to further gin up demand for the inevitable IPO.

“When you have a chance,” reads the Goldman solicitation to its
clients, “I wanted to find a time to discuss a highly confidential
and time-sensitive investment opportunity in a private company that is
considering a transaction to raise additional capital.

“For confidentiality reasons, I am unable to tell you the name of
the company unless you agree not to use such information other than in
connection with your evaluation of the investment opportunity and to
keep all information that we reveal to you strictly confidential.”

Any resemblance between this and a Nigerian email scam is purely
coincidental. At least it wasn’t in all caps.

“It looks to me like that’s typical of what the investment banks
have been doing for the past decade, which is trading paper for profits,
instead of investing in revenue streams,” we told Tech News World
this week.

Unfortunately, in the process of editing the article, our central point
got lost: How the whole thing smacks of a Ponzi scheme. Goldman’s
clients get the big gains, while the IPO investors will be left holding
the bag. Plus, it looks like the deal as it’s structured with Digital
Sky Technologies gives Goldman’s clients a built-in out…even before
the IPO.

Good position, if you can land it.

But the question remains: If Goldman writes to its best clients in
language that treats them like everyday marks in a wire-transfer scheme,
imagine what it thinks of the schlubs who’d buy publicly traded shares.
 

Kilgore Trout

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I wonder when Facebook is finally going to be a publicly traded company on either Nasdaq or NYSE. Zuckerberg keeps dragging his feet on that for some reason and just says it'll happen "soon" , whatever that means.
 

Cobster

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Fuck Facebook, fuck Zuckerberg, they can both go fuck each other.

I wouldn't trust either of them as far as I could throw any one of you.
 

Rockslinger

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Ok, let say you are 40 years old and have $50 billion to invest and you can't touch that investment until you are 60, which one of the following companies would you buy?

a) Facebook
b) Google
c) Royal Bank
d) Potash Corp.
e) Rogers
f) Apple
g) Microsoft
h) General Motors

Does anyone actually believe that Facebook or Google will still be around in 20 years when you are 60 years old?
 

hinz

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Ok, let say you are 40 years old and have $50 billion to invest and you can't touch that investment until you are 60, which one of the following companies would you buy?

a) Facebook
b) Google
c) Royal Bank
d) Potash Corp.
e) Rogers
f) Apple
g) Microsoft
h) General Motors

Does anyone actually believe that Facebook or Google will still be around in 20 years when you are 60 years old?
How about I buy a basket of those shares, after I have accumulated enough fixed income investments on hand? :p
 

Rockslinger

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How about I buy a basket of those shares, after I have accumulated enough fixed income investments on hand?
NO basket. You must pick only one and you are stuck with that one until you are 60. That is your retirement nestegg. Would you bet your retirement on Facebook or the Royal Bank?
 

hinz

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NO basket. You must pick only one and you are stuck with that one until you are 60. That is your retirement nestegg. Would you bet your retirement on Facebook or the Royal Bank?
Many of those selections are pretty suck in terms of valuation, except Rogers and Microsoft.

Having said that, no thank you to pick one stock only for my retirement nest egg. :p
 

Rockslinger

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Having said that, no thank you to pick one stock only for my retirement nest egg.
Then, take some of your "Vegas money" and buy some shares of Facebook. Treat it as a gambling or lottery adventure. Or, just buy LottoMax tickets.
 

Cobster

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NO basket. You must pick only one and you are stuck with that one until you are 60. That is your retirement nestegg. Would you bet your retirement on Facebook or the Royal Bank?
Exactly.
 
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