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    Will indentured servitude come back?

    It's not like they are using their own money.
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    Will indentured servitude come back?

    I am all for it. Let's start with the people who are the biggest debtors. Let's get the list of TARP recipients, and might as well add Paulson, Geithner, toss in Greenspan and Bernanke for good measure. Who else?
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    Excellent article from market ticker.

    So you "only" pull one or two trillion out of GDP, that's still quite a large percentage, like depression numbers. Plus a lot of people are not even spending on the essentials since they have lost their jobs and homes.
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    Is the worst behind us?

    And in a few months those first employees that you let go will exhaust their unemployment, which means thing are getting better.
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    Geithner .....Wants More $$$....

    "The request to increase the debt limit will likely raise the ire of Republicans who have accused President Barack Obama of runaway spending. They may try to hold up the legislation in effort to win concessions on Obama's health care reform plan." Umm, didn't the debt ceiling have to be...
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    Laura Blankfien and rant (GS)

    That's why Old Money never drinks before noon.
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    This cash for clunkers seems to be working.

    It just pulled demand forward a bit. What happens next month when the program ends?
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    I'm Starting A Manure Business

    The Fed buying Treasuries is working so well, why don't we just have them buy them all from now on? US gummint needs a few tens of trillions? Just call Ben.
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    July 2009 Jobs Report

    What percentage is 550,000 of the total number of people still working? It could actually be worse than the 600,000+ initial claims of a few months ago.
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    Great Depression News Headlines

    Every financial news story has a "recession is easing" comment to it, even if the news is bad.
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    Trump Owes 1.25 Billion On His Bankrupt Casinos

    New book deal: The Art Of The Comb-Over by Donald Trump.
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    if you own SRS you're SOL

    Is the slippage accounted for in their option prices? It must be otherwise there would be some opportunities there.
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    Govt Spending....Sustainability

    With tax payments down 33% how long until we make up the difference?
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    This New Bull Market Is No Clunker

    As well as ex-crackhead.
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    Financial Problems Deepen at Corus Bankshares and Colonial BancGroup

    http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/orange_news/080309_fbi_raids_building Downtown building raided by FBI Updated: Monday, 03 Aug 2009, 2:41 PM EDT Published : Monday, 03 Aug 2009, 12:07 PM EDT ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - - FBI agents from the Washington, D.C. field office...
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    Read My Lips!

    So Timmie and the Treasury are setting tax policy these days? I may have to get that special version of Turbo Tax.
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    In next few months, 1.5 million jobless in U.S. will exhaust unemployment benefits

    Just think of how the news monkeys will spin this as a good thing.
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    New jobless claims rise more than expected

    According to Denninger many people rolled off the 13 week unemployment to the extended plan. These were not counted. The real number still collecting payments is 8.718 million. http://market-ticker.org/archives/1272-Unemployment-Report-FAR-Weaker-Than-Claimed.html
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    How would you fix the health care problem in the US?

    To all the people who advocate eliminating malpractice lawsuits, what do you say to family of a friend of mine who checked into his HMO and complained of a pain in his back. The doctor wanted to keep him overnight and prescribed an IV painkiller to be added to his fluid drip. First the doc wrote...
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    How would you fix the health care problem in the US?

    Maybe that was per person.
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