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Posted on Sunday March 29th, 2009 at 06:33 in g20 protests, g20 meltdown
The current economic crisis seems to have brought a lot of joy to the anti-capitalism brigade. I am starting to hear in the news about how these people feel vindicated 10 years on from their protests in Seattle. They said then that capitalism would f...
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Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 15:01 in whinging letter from idiots with huge feeling of entitlement at aig
The First Whinging letter was sent yesterday from Jake DeSantis who works for AIG Financial Products - the deivision responsible for racking up the losses in CDS trades that killed the firm to a large extent. It was published in the NY Times Yesterda...
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Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 06:15 in bailout, bad bank, geithner plan, public private investment program
The latest plan to emerge stateside to save the now drowning banks is what Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner calls a Public-Private Investment Program. In many ways this is just a repackaging of the Bad Bank idea. Geithner has tried to present the idea...
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Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 10:33 in obama, iran, us, ahemeinejad
Obama to mark the Persian New Year, Navroz, put out an appeal to the Iranian people using youtube. You can see the video below :Upon first looks this is commendable. However some careful analysis suggests that this is a very misguided approach that h...
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Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 04:37 in tarp, marginal tax, 90% tax, bailout bonus tax
The US House passed a 90% tax on bonuses at firms that took bailout money. Immediately we started hearing cries of "socialism" and the "end of free market capitalism". These statements are pure nonsense. These same people who are so vehemently oppose...
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Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 08:55 in barclays unethical, barclays tax avoidance documents, barclays gags the guardian
I came across this on wikileaks, basically seems to be a story on how The Guradian obtained some documents which they published on their website which were then removed once Barclays obtained a court order for this. Why were Barclays so concerned? Si...
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