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    7 reasons U.S. needs a Good Depression now

    By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — No, do not raise the debt-ceiling. You heard me: Block the debt ceiling vote. Don’t raise it. America’s out-of-control. A debt addict. Time to detox. Deal with the collateral damage before it’s too late. We...
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    Bloomberg.com new layout WTF?

    Has Bloomberg finally pulled the plug on the black layout? Noir.bloomberg.com no longer works...
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    I Admire Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

    You are just jealous of his weiner. :D
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    Why GM Couldn't Be Apple, According to a Former GM Exec

    Brand image and brand perception are everything in the auto biz. GM products just don't have that cache people are looking for. Ask yourself would you still drive a new GM vehicle if you won the lottery?
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    Blackjack player beats 3 Atlantic City Casinos for $15.1M

    Do you think he's smart enough to call it a day or he'll keep pushing his luck at other casinos and eventually gives it all back and some?
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    Blackjack player beats 3 Atlantic City Casinos for $15.1M

    He'll get whacked soon...
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    Stimulus Needed for ‘Frustratingly Slow’ Recovery: Bernanke

    Does he live in a different planet? Bernanke sees job, growth pickup in second half Inflation seen as less of a threat WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that he is not in the camp of economists worried about a double-dip recession as...
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    Buffett lunch bidding hits $2m

    You are $2m in the hole to start with. His advice? Buy low, sell high... :D What a deal!
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    Buffett lunch bidding hits $2m

    June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett’s lunch auction to benefit a San Francisco charity has drawn a top offer of $2 million with four days of bidding remaining, putting the annual frundraiser ahead of last year’s pace. The weeklong auction on EBay Inc., which began yesterday, has...
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    Next stop: Dow 20,000

    By James Altucher NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The market fell like a brick on Wednesday. People can’t handle any piece of bad news without saying “this is the big one.” We have visceral memories of May through July 2010, just a year ago. We have visceral memories of 2008, when it seemed...
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    2nd banker in hotel sex bust

    Another international moneyman has been busted for sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, cops said last night. Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar -- the 74-year-old former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria -- allegedly groped and "gyrated" against the maid in Room 1027 at The...
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    Mobius: Another financial crisis is around the corner

    May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the...
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    CNBC Mark Haines Dies 5/24/11

    List of stuff to bring to heaven? Coincidence? @ 1:43 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IilCQ02H128
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    Do you own a nice watch?

    Men and their watches http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2005/dec/01/shopping.jesscartnermorley
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    CNBC Mark Haines Dies 5/24/11

    Thousands of people die from heart attack every year. Is that really that big of a deal to announce he died from "an apparent heart attack" if it was really the cause of death? His last show was on Friday, May 20. He didn't show up on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday May 24 and then died later that...
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    CNBC Mark Haines Dies 5/24/11

    Has anyone heard any rumor on his cause of death? http://gramercyimages.com/blog1/2011/05/27/mark-haines-death-getting-odd/ http://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2011/05/silence-weasel-language-mark-haines.html
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    "Money is a menace to happiness"

    Quality vs quantity
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    new bloomberg website layout - thumbs down

    Still black for me. :D http://noir.bloomberg.com
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    "Money is a menace to happiness"

    What a sad life... Reclusive copper heiress dies alone aged 104. http://tinyurl.com/438dtr2
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    Intrade CEO dies on Mount Everest

    What a responsible husband to participate in a high risk activity when the wife was expecting a child... John Delaney, founder and CEO of Intrade, the prediction market, has died while trying to climb Mt. Everest. He was less than 50 meters from the top, according to the Daily Mail...
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