Monday, May 11, 2009

Citibank and Bank of America: The Struggling Giant

Just what is happening to Citibank and Bank of America? Are they still two of the world's biggest banks? not any more. So, what happened so fast, weren't they the two most powerful banks not long ago; say lest that 18 months ago they were fighting to take over, and dominate small banks, so what happened? Where are all the money gone?

Listen, I will tell you where, no where, they had no money, so what did they got? useless financial papers with suppose value; oh, and don't be fooled management knew it. They present to the investing public balance sheets with "fuzzy value" in a scheme to deceive and cash in the hard earned cash of the middle class who thought they have real value in their 401Ks.

Suddenly, these high priced, falsely inflated stock became penny stocks, they fell like humpty dumpty, thus, leaving baby boomers without their pension dollars. Furthermore, baby boomers, have to forfeit their retirement; and those who have retired are now working part- time competing with high school kids for low paid jobs.

I wonder, are big banks CEOs dumb or are they just arrogant, how could they be buying private jets while asking taxpayers to bail them out of their financial mess? I don't get it, what's the logic?

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good article! Thanks for informing us!

Anonymous said...

Very true assessment of the so-called giant banks money management. Their money management application is "mal money managementorama. Even now the stimilus is not as far reaching as expected because the bank is bailing out itself instead of investing in the economy.