The other shoes are dropping...

**Mark in SBA** · 09-30-2008 06:09 PM

Dealers are starting to go under. Bill Heard, a big multi-store GM dealer, went bankrupt today. A lot of subprime, non-performing car loans forced GM to cut off their financing.

Expect record numbers to go belly up as customer credit tightens and their own credit lines and factory financing arms find it hard to get and extend credit from third parties. And luxury brands like BMW and Benz aren't exempt.

A lot of folks were worried about the "End of Oil" era. Folks, at least here in the U.S., we're at the "End of Credit" era.

It's gonna be brutal.

**justaguyinokc** · 09-30-2008 11:03 PM

on my BMW Visa. I guess that means I need to go out and run it up to the top, and be a good American, lol!

In other words, I think credit is not so frozen up as people think. It's just frozen up for the 30-40 to 1 leveraged investment banks and those with a 550 FICO, heheh.

**Mark in SBA** · 10-01-2008 11:35 AM

Way back in 1999, a prediction:

<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F9582 60">New York Times Article</a>

There you have it laid out in black and white.

Idiots.

**Mark in SBA** · 10-01-2008 01:53 PM

<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0150194420081001">GE Capital is in trouble</a>

Moody rates these guys AAA, the street rates them junk. This is how the slide downward begins, guys. Like it or not, we gotta unload the toxic stuff and free up the market. GE Capital funds a ton of corporate debt and paper.

**lezonebay** · 10-01-2008 03:57 PM

so true and so precise. it was all timed to happen at the end of a Bush era.

**Mark in SBA** · 10-02-2008 02:11 PM

Car dealerships are finally getting theirs, the *******s.

Now colleges are worried the incoming class won't show up unless they can get their student loans. Maybe they'll have to drop their ridiculous tuitions by 50%. $40K a year for USC?

Maybe they shouldn't vote for this thing after all. Might be good therapy for the U.S. economy.

**ladislav** · 10-02-2008 02:27 PM

...it will be soooo good for the US dollar purchasing power!!!

Just think - BMW prices actually dropping? ;-)

Gas will be cheaper, too.

I am amazed at those saying that the 'bailout' should include something for 'main street'. Catchy jingle, but who's paying the bill? Dummies - where do they think the money is going to come from?

It like the old "let's split the dinner tab" cry of those who indulged and hope that others consent to pay for it.

**ladislav** · 10-02-2008 03:10 PM

got to
jim gearhart's page and watch hearings from '04 in which our present would be 'savior' Chris Dodd investigates Fanny Mae practices

I haven't seen it, but I understand it's good because the dishonorable Doddster apparently shouts down critics.

Now he's pretending to be the good shepherd of the 'rescue'.

**Faisal_in_Laurel** · 10-02-2008 04:16 PM

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**Mark in SBA** · 10-02-2008 06:58 PM

He made us do it!

TX Greg · 10-03-2008 01:01 AM

places over there in Dubai! Haliburton is already there waiting for them.

**justaguyinokc** · 10-03-2008 04:03 PM

Wonders will never cease. Talk about spooky predictions....right in time for trick-or-treat month.

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