The Euro Crisis
Pecora Investigation
“Legal chicanery and pitch darkness were the banker’s stoutest allies.”
New site for easy “Where’s the Note”
Skimmed the cream before taking tax-payer bailouts for shoring up profits and bonuses.
My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.
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Warren Buffet on pledging 50% of his wealth to philanthrophy.
via CNN Money
Complaining about joblessness
Grab ten items from your home. Where were they produced?
Simplistic.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
– Edward Abbey
