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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: financial meltdown
Blame The Geeks
Blame it on the math geniuses with the fancy computers. You know those fancy computer models! I mean, Al Gore and his climate “scientists” use computer models too, and that should tell you how awful they are. That’s my summation … Continue reading
Fault For The Meltdown
Ever since the mortgage bubble burst in September of 2008, the right has spread the idea that it was all because ACORN twisted the arms of bankers until they gave loans to unqualified minorities. Because bankers are so easy to … Continue reading
Finally, Some Interest In CDOs
Remember those Collateralized Debt Obligations that nearly destroyed the world just fifteen months ago? The government is just getting around to an investigation thereof: In a letter dated Oct. 22, the SEC sent what amounts to a questionnaire to a … Continue reading
Sachs Socialism, Mind Bullets
Compelled by a headline about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein saying that he does “God’s work,” I pored through this article from UK TimesOnline and discovered a scheme to horrify the Ayn Rand set: collective rewards! The idea of teamwork … Continue reading
CNN: Corporate News Network
The original cable news titan whitewashes the issue of naked short selling: No mention of how millions of phantom shares never get delivered. No mention of the telltale signs of fraudulent short-selling at the heart of the financial meltdown last … Continue reading
George Soros Remaking Economics
Uh-oh, break out your tinfoil-hat. George Soros is spending $50 million to shake up the American economics profession, gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized during the era of “free-market fundamentalism,” among them Nobelists … Continue reading
Americans Are Fighting Foreclosure
And they’re doing it the old-fashioned way: they’re asking the banks to prove they have a case. All too often, the banks don’t even have the right paperwork. Arthur Delaney over at HuffPo: Several reports over the last few days … Continue reading
Things We Should Actually Fear
Remember that genius headline in The Onion, “Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble to Invest In“? Well, life imitates comedy. From the NYT: The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash … Continue reading
Profiting From Disaster
In the latest example of disaster capitalism, the breakup of the insurance giant formerly known as AIG stands to make Wall Street $1 billion richer. From Reuters: Morgan Stanley could collect as much as $250 million, the newspaper said, citing … Continue reading
Too Big To Fail
Remember AIG? The American taxpayer has sunk $150 billion into the failed insurance giant and backed another $300 billion of corporate risk because it was “too big to fail.” Because the entire global system was connected to AIG, its collapse … Continue reading
Business Press
Via Barry Ritzholz at The Big Picture, an exhaustive study of the business press as the meltdown approached proves what everyone already knows: not enough investigative journalism and far too many puff pieces. If only Jon Stewart had had a … Continue reading
