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October 19, 2008

Questions Related to Financial 9/11

This article poses a number of questions related to what’s being called the Financial 9/11. At the root of the questions lies a great mistrust of the speed at which things ‘had to be done’.  Were financial markets unravelling because the people behind them were inept or because the regulations had been stripped so raw by free-market fundamentalists or because there was some other deep-seated […]

October 19, 2008

Fiddling While Rome Burns: Bonuses at All Time High

A record $70 billion in bonuses are planned for Wall Street ‘genuises’this year, despite the worst show of abuse of capitalism in the last 80 years. At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $10.7bn pay pot for the year to date was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. In effect, staff, on receiving their remuneration, could club together and buy […]

October 19, 2008

Cuba to Become an Oil Player

Full Story Here. The dynamics of the Carribean just got a little more dynamic. Now that Cuba will have serious cash-flow, they’ll be able to partner with the likes of Venezuela and Bolivia and start driving the US nuts. Expect the ‘axis of evil’ rhetoric to increase exponentially in the coming months.

October 19, 2008

Head of Taser Distributor Arrested in France

NOTE:  Now that the Canadian election is a bust, it’s time I got back to the original and targeted intent of this blog, which is to follow all things related to Taser and the shock economy. Original story here. French police arrested the head of a company that distributes stun guns in France for Scottsdale-based Taser International Inc. on Tuesday, according to foreign news reports. […]