no asset is worthless if it can be made good in the future... that is the beauty of a deep very deep financial market that allows you to borrow indefinetly against assets that you could sieze from others abroad by sheer force. this is no ministrone it is imperial rent
----- Original Message ---- From: Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:35:39 AM Subject: Minestrone soup I just finished eating a tasty nutritious bowl of worthless assets. It cost me $1.29 for half a gallon. The $1.29 was for a can of organic kidney beans, on sale, that I added to the culled tomatoes, potatoes, chard, zucchini, carrots, broccolli stems and onion that I brought home from work for free. All but the tomatoes and onion were organic. Although all the vegetables were perfectly fresh and edible, they were not marketable because of blemishes, bruises or rotten spots that are easily cut off. What I want to know is can you make soup out of worthless financial assets? If you can, what is the recipe? If you can't, why bother talking about the credit crises? -- Sandwichman ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ