{"id":2324,"date":"2007-12-05T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2007-12-05T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T15:30:54","slug":"sharks-eating-sharks-its-1974-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2324\/sharks-eating-sharks-its-1974-all-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Eating Sharks:  It&#8217;s 1974, All Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You suck!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you&#8217;re a big fathead !&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like to watch the stock market opening on Bloomberg Television.  The cable company lets me have Bloomberg, free, until 8AM so I can get my fix while I lay cocooned in bed.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, Goldman Sachs, the premier investment banking firm, <a title=\"citi sucks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/goldman-says-sell-citigroup-amid\/story.aspx?guid=%7BF0EC293B-5D07-4C83-AA9D-E86C868136C6%7D\">told Citigroup that they, basically suck<\/a>.  Today, Citi told everybody that <a title=\"gs sucks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.streetinsider.com\/Analyst+Comments\/Citi+Lowers+Q4+Earnings+Estimates+for+Brokers+-+GS,+LEH,+MER+and+MS\/3174880.html\">they all suck just as much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"hank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a.Q.TOiLOQVs&amp;refer=home\">Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson calls an audible<\/a> from the <a title=\"nixon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.econreview.com\/events\/wageprice1971b.htm\">Nixon playbook<\/a>, Ben Bernanke is <a title=\"bernanke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aNgPymFdNYL0&amp;refer=home\">cranking up the printing press<\/a> and the <a title=\"depressed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=aZyuXP6jl4xo&amp;refer=home\">American public is depressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slip, Freeze, Crash, Buy.  When the sharks start eating the sharks, it won&#8217;t be long before you can start picking through the bones for a few good morsels.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <a title=\"buffett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gurufocus.com\/news.php?id=4199\">Warren Buffett<\/a>. He <a title=\"buffett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/value\/2007\/10\/25\/be-greedy-when-others-are-fearful.aspx\">bought an American institution<\/a>, in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You suck!&#8221; &#8220;Well, you&#8217;re a big fathead !&#8221; I like to watch the stock market opening on Bloomberg Television. The cable company lets me have Bloomberg, free, until 8AM so I can get my fix while I lay cocooned in bed. A few weeks ago, Goldman Sachs, the premier investment banking firm, told Citigroup that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-investment","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3537,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3537\/just-when-you-thought-microsoft-internet-explorer-couldnt-possibly-suck-any-worse-it-finds-a-way-to-suck-with-wordpress-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":2324,"position":0},"title":"Just when you thought Microsoft Internet Explorer couldn&#8217;t possibly suck any worse, it finds a way to suck with WordPress 2.6","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you ever wonder why Bill Gates doesn't have any children? 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In the mean time, here are two ways of using video in real estate marketing that are actually useful and practical\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17955,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17955\/overnight-news-big-budget-ibuyers-manage-to-suck-even-worse-even-in-the-easiest-real-estate-market-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":2324,"position":4},"title":"Overnight News: Big-budget iBuyers manage to suck even worse \u2013 even in the easiest real estate market\u00a0ever.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"There's iBuyer news today \u2013 half truth, half lies \u2013 but, as usual, the big news is missing: The big-budget iBuyers are by-now swarmed by many, many mini-iBuyers. 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