I sent the following e-mail to Barack Obama. ____________ Much of your agenda is admirable. However, you have chosen the worst financial advisors possible....
Perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but why doesn't the swimming pool example work? I agree that it is perhaps a bit oversimplified, but in general terms, it...
I think the big thing is that the thieves took billions in bonuses the last three years for the financial shennighans that ended up costing us billions. They...
Stacy, The swimming pool example works because it is a very basic example of the circulation that exist in many parts of nature as in the circulation of carbon...
Del Thomas Ph D
Deltom@...
Mar 3, 2009 3:02 am
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Stacy, Let's first dispense with the word logic. This is about how people and things act. The banks, AIG, etc. are "too" big to fail but not in the general...
Hi Ken, Stacey et. al. I personally think too big to fail is a substantial part of the problem. We should break the banks up into smaller pieces which in the...
Bernie Madoff is supposedly arranging a plea bargain. Let's see, he stole $50 billion. He never bought any stock whatsoever for at least the last 13 years....
http://www.alternet.org/story/129639/ AIG Bailed Out Again, but Endless Fire-Drills Don't Put Out Fires By Nomi Prins, AlterNet Posted on March 3, 2009,...
"Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America" $5 BILLION IN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BOUGHT WALL STREET FREEDOM FROM REGULATION, RESTRAINT, REPORT...
We should be using our money to build the Good Society. Instead, we are using more and more of our tax dollars to absorb the losses of corrupt goons on Wall...
I would venture to say that one of the reasons Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve don't want to reveal where the $150 billion already given to AIG went is...
i'm sure that you have heard about the "feud" between Jim Kramer and Jon Stewart that has been garnering some air time this past week. watch the video on this...
In case you missed it, this the most incredible thing ever to be on television. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=220533 Here's...
I have put together a transcript of the Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer show March 12 including the outtakes which did not make it on the air. If you would like a...
Having a comedian call out the tough questions reminds of the court jesters. In playing the role of the "fool" asking "foolish" questions, they were the ones...
Kathy Stolley
bc_kitty@...
Mar 17, 2009 4:30 pm
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I don't understand the attraction for this story. I watched the segment of the Daily Show where Jon Stewart interviewed Cramer. Cramer is a buffoon but he...
I think the Stewart interview was one of the most brilliant things ever on television. It took the news media totally to task for just holding the microphone...
Ken how much money have you lost? has the value of your home declined? are you still employed? if you think we have the power to destroy capitalism, you have...
I think that we can all agree that there is plenty of blame to go around. If we are going to take an individual approach to the problem, I'm wondering how we...
On Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer called the collapse of the economy a one in a million event. CRAMER: "Everyone got it wrong. I got a lot of things wrong because I...
... Yea, Laura, I think you nailed it. It's a structural problem. Alan Greenspan bought Ayn Rand virtue of selfishness (they were friends and he even wrote...
I don't understand what people don't understand about mortgages, the stock market, etc. In any investment that involves risk you are effectively betting on...
These days the general financial philosophy seems to be taken from Wimpy, the hamburger loving character from the Popeye cartoons: "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday...
From FAIR -- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ___________ Dear CNBC - "You knew what the banks were doing, and yet were touting it for months and months. The...
He seems to have managed creating the bipartisanship in Congress that he desired. If it were brought to a vote today, both Democrats and Republicans would...
Sounds good, but I think TV people are in the business of entertainment leading to advertising sales, not accurate journalism, in spite of what we may imagine,...
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