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    Stiglitz -v- Goldman Sachs Chief Economist

    Stiglitz Says Markets ‘Irrationally Exuberant’ About Economy Share | Email | Print | A A A http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aExyOK3McV8E By Jeremy Torobin Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said unemployment is going to keep...
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    WalMart Bodegas Lift Profits in Recession; Mexicans Live Day to Day'

    Thanks globalization for lifting the living standards of Americans AND Mexicans! This will be a sneak peak of America's future; a time when people will be buying single serving sized Frosted Flakes for their kids. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=abehwuJB.5ZE Wal-Mart...
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    The Ponzi Scheme that is American Finance

    Short term profits for 'the financial community' is the biggest threat to jobs, creating and sustaining thousands of companies making real products, and the employees and shareholders of those companies. These people leveraging these companies (when it's not necessary and in fact, harmful)...
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    Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails

    Goldie wouldn't have even survived without the 14 billion they pocketed from the Paulson bailout of AIG, nor the tens of billions of taxpayer-extracted money the government gave other Goldman counterparties.
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    Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails

    Suck my nutsack, piker. You are a truly pathetic individual, and must cream your pants whenever Goldman Sachs goes on a rape and pillaging (of the U.S. taxpayer) spree.
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    Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails

    I'm sure the members at Goldman have already arranged the BK of CIT, by the way.
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    Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails

    By Henny Sender and Saskia Scholtes in New York...
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    This is the future of the USA

    Unemployment rate is at an actual 22.6% using same methodology as in 1983. I'll post a link when I find it.
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    Roubini: "Stock & commodity markets to drop," "New financial instability here&quo

    Roubini Says Stocks Have Risen ‘Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast’ Share | Email | Print | A A A http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGDRFBUdT3iY By Shamim Adam and Francine Lacqua Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who accurately...
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    U.S. Military Veterans Loving Socialized Medicine Show Government Offers Savings

    Socialism!! Socialism!!! These veterans must be commies!!! It's sickening that Republicans have killed the best shot at producing real health care savings in the U.S.: A Public Option to compete with private insurance companies. But noooooo. Let health care costs keep skyrocketing...
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    "No sane person should be buying treasuries or US dollars." Are they wrong?

    Non-U.S. denominated currencies, commodities, non-U.S. denominated treasuries... Maybe there's a reservoir of people and policy makers that see a future global crisis looming, and the value of the U.S.D., despite all the central bank injections and quantitative easing, will be a smart...
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    The Dow Zero Insurgency

    The Dow Zero Insurgency The nothing-can-be-believed chaos of the financial crisis created a golden opportunity for a blog run by a mysterious ex-hedge-funder with a dodgy past and conspiracy theories to burn. * By Joe Hagan * Published Sep 27, 2009 Last spring, in a far corner of...
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    "No sane person should be buying treasuries or US dollars." Are they wrong?

    Is buying dollars and/or treasuries irrational? Is buying dollars and/or treasuries ruinous IF the severe flu the U.S. has spreads to China, Japan and other exporting nations, developed and emerging? Isn't much of the money being printed by the U.S. being vaporized by financial entities...
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    U.S. Job Losses May Be Even Larger as Labor’s Model Breaks Down

    U.S. Job Losses May Be Even Larger as Labor’s Model Breaks Down Share | Email | Print | A A A By Carlos Torres http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aXoQJ14iSlWg Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economic slump earlier this year was so severe it short-circuited the...
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    Kenneth Langone Says U.S. in `Horrible Economic Storm'

    @ 12 minutes in, Langone tells Rhomer that things are getting much worse, not better, and stimulus package will backfire.
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    Kenneth Langone Says U.S. in `Horrible Economic Storm'

    "If we did what the government did [promoting false 'green shoots'], we'd go to jail." http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=ceo&T=Kenneth%20Langone%20Says%20U.S.%20in%20%60Horrible%20Economic%20Storm%27&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vY36ExWO8TB0.asf
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    Rise of Beck, Hannity, Bill O’Reilly has correlated perfectly w/decline of G.O.P.

    The Wizard of Beck By DAVID BROOKS Published: October 2, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/opinion/02brooks.html?_r=1 Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The talk jocks...
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    American Girl unveils homeless doll

    With employment (real rate, not bullshit government reported rate) headed to 20% or possibly more, this is a smart move, if they price it right... http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/parenting/bal-american-girl-gwen-0930,0,5319017.story
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