From my decades in the commercial banking industry: Fitch, S&P, Moody's, et. al. have a miserable track record of analyzing anything other than the past. They typically do not have industry experts examine the data, they leverage overpriced MBA students as analysts. As such any "insight" they have is confined to conventional wisdom. How hard is to say that things don't look good at this point? I can pull 100 people off the street in Detroit and ask them if they either GM, Chrysler, or Ford will survive and most would say the same thing, "I'm not sure." This is exactly what Fitch is saying -- only with a detailed stack of powerpoints, excel spread sheets and expensive prose. They bring zero value to the table...

The irony of this post is that the photos were taken in front of Birmingham Chrysler in Troy Michigan -- one of the dealers cut in the downsizing. So this arrives too late to save them! Nice looking vehicle, hope is shows up soon.

According to CNBD, Jobs is in the house, along with Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who in August resigned from Apple's Board).

How is this different than a person taking out an insurance policy on someone else then killing them to collect? Near as I can tell it is illegal under that scenario, Oh yes, I forgot that credit default swaps only "looked" like insurance...

Just because I want to stream HD through my comcast box to other TV's without being a slave to comcast on more than one box!

Nothing about security of site - privacy policy is pretty clean and they disclose you'll be shown targeted ads, not a real problem. But I'd really like to understand the security of their network.

A perfect way to track valid web traffic! 700w please...

A perfect way to track valid web traffic!