You don’t have to be familiar with the poem “Desiderata” to appreciate this. Written by Tony Hendra in his National Lampoon days, it appeared on the Radio Dinner LP, which has been criminally out of print for too long.
The beginning of the end?
I am hoping this is not just wishful thinking. There are noises in Europe about the second dip coming. We should cross our fingers it’s not and try to believe…
Well, it looks as though we might be on our way out of the might Bush Trough. I hope W is remembered in history as the person who robbed the United States Treasury and handed a basket case to President Obama.
The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush’s last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama’s first year of office.
The chart was put together by the House Democratic leadership.
…jaf
About F*ing time!
On Thursday President Barack Obama is expected to propose new limits on the size and risk taken by the country’s biggest banks, marking the administration’s latest assault on Wall Street in what could mark a return — at least in spirit — to some of the curbs on finance put in place during the Great Depression.
..jaf
The Song Remains the Same…
Elizabeth Warren should have Geitner’s job.
..jaf
You are a fluke of the universe
We are, of course, coming up on the very end of the year, and I thought it’d be nice to slow down and do a little deep thinking.
Required Viewing for anyone who wants to know what is really going on…
A discussion with Kevin Drum & David Corn.
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Watch Part 1The ancient Romans had a proverb: “Money is like sea water. |
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Watch Part 2Banks weren’t just making investments, they were borrowing |
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Watch Part 3Moyers’ essay on the greed that drives the process… |
Screw the Whistleblower
What happens when someone blows a very loud whistle on an huge international bank- UBS (with Senator Phil Gramm employed by the bank).
The part that really pisses me off is that our esteemed Attorney General has had to recuse himself from the case as he has been an attorney for UBS- the bank perpetrating the fraud.
Move-Your-Money on The Ed Show…
Arianna and Rob Johnson, director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, urged Americans to move their money to community banks during an appearance on the Ed Show with Ed Schultz on Wednesday.
More info available at Move-Your-Money.info
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