Category Archives: Economics

Rep Grayson

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15 seats, none for single-payer

We’d love more of this! <video>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKP05AyfRsI</video>

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Gingrich in 2012

You Douche!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154&feature=player_embeddedDouche!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvo6ZogzMqI&feature=player_embeddedWe could have drank at the bar we’ve always gone to and spent half the fucking money, but NO…

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Burn the Books!

This is so fun to watch! One of those ‘tea parties’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdOwgD5OsY

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Mark to market accounting

Rep. Grayson hits this out of the park again…pay attention to what is said after the 4th minute especiallyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baBFKZETOE

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Keep an eye out for this guy

Nice clips – a freshman Rep from Florida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-DOwLnQ4nkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jO5Z-9yy54

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Best scene in the movie ‘Network’

You have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Mr Beale, and I won’t have it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5hrcwU7Dk

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Read, don’t watch

This is why you’re a fool to even watch this channel. It is a bullhorn for lies that corporate America would love to have spread around. I’m so glad that I don’t recognize any of these people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g47goge2S6I&e

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Frank hits it on the head

Bailout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viKFUj1Tk-w

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Keating Economics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY

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Yup

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Midnight Rider

Allman Brothers Band – Midnight Rider (Great Woods)Uploaded by fuzz59

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Moby Dick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW4b2axczFI

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Lehman Brothers Files for Bankruptcy

This is going to be the focus tomorrow…buckle your seat belts! Trying to get it right in my head over the weekend wasn’t easy, until Sunday night came and there was no announcement to be made out of the Treasury … Continue reading

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Don’t believe the hype

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Holdings 7/16/08

Two more transactions for this morning. Diversifying further out of gold, increasing stake in BAM and keeping cash on hand.

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A Nervous Man

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Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144

(TP) “In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances against the U.S. that Americans “have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims” by purchasing oil … Continue reading

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Bad Month

“U.S. stocks tumbled, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst June since the Great Depression, as record oil prices, credit-market write downs and a slowing economy threatened to extend a yearlong profit slump…Initial jobless claims totaled 384,000 in … Continue reading

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High Gas Prices = Less Demand

Rove made this observation here…I found a nice chart on Think Progress pertaining to this:

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Buffett Says Credit Crisis Ebbs for Wall Street Firms

By Josh P. Hamilton and Betty Liu – May 3 (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the global credit crunch has eased for bankers, and the Federal Reserve probably averted more failures by helping … Continue reading

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I’ve got a trade on the way

Selling at least half of the gold. Buying Transocean (w/in a week or two), natural gas producers (basket – ETF, Russian play, NGS?), BAM (Brookfield Asset Management), long Yen short USD (looking for an ETF)…selling 15% of the IAU shares … Continue reading

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Obama’s speech on economics

Yup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI

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Gold Closes Over 1000

 

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+16.72% since November ’07

November 27, 2007 – I liquidated the portfolio and put it all into gold, ending with 16,337 shares of IAU – avg price $77.70 Total Value – $1,329,020.80 – (The fantasy portfolio had gained 20.16% since it’s inception in February … Continue reading

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Alan Greenspan – Professional Douchebag

How much of an asshole is this guy? Bernanke and Paulson are testifying before Congress, the former having just slashed 125 basis points off the Fed rate faster than any central banker in history…every week brings out the discovery of … Continue reading

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Halliburton Steals Information from Petrobas (PBR)

If someone just made this story up… (Reuters) – Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote, Profile, Research)(PBR.N: Quote, Profile, Research), said Thursday that computers containing “important information” of oil and gas field research off the Brazilian coast were stolen. … Continue reading

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Harper’s Weekly Review (part)

“…Dwarf thieves had infested Swedish buses,9 Lithuania was pondering changing its name,10 and a plot by retired Turkish Army officers to kill Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was foiled. 11 Police in Malda, India, were battling avian flu by conducting a … Continue reading

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Mississippi mud

This is a good one… (Lead Story – NYTimes Sunday Business Section – By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ) …Linking Mr. Scruggs, Mr. Patterson and other figures in the case is an obscure former college football star, farmer and politically well-connected adviser … Continue reading

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An Ethical Economic Policy

From the 2005 book ‘Greenspan’s Fraud‘ by Professor of Economics (SMU, Dallas) Ravi Batra: The verdict of history is that ethics works, and deception designed to foster the interests of the few does not. Ethical policies start out with direct … Continue reading

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