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October 28, 2008

JP Morgan Responsible for Financial Crisis?

Please note that any of these blog posts or opinions do not reflect investment advice and any action that you choose to take related to investing should be done so after discussing your ideas with a professional investment advisor. Original link This piece is pretty deep in its accusations concerning the financial crisis that we have had no choice but to become obsessed with.  I […]

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October 28, 2008

Unite the Left – Lloyd Axworthy

I’m always loathe to quote from Canwest Media, but Lloyd Axworthy posted this op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen that you might be interested in. I have issue with the notion that the opposition parties have to unite, mainly because their views are too disparate.  As I’ve said before, this is the inevitable ‘long tail’ of politics, where fragmentation of power occurs as a result of […]

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October 28, 2008

Paulson’s Plan and the Sucker Who Bought It

Original story here . Folks, this bailout money isn’t about loosening credit for consumers or businesses, but consolidating wealth and power in fewer and fewer banking hands. That’s great business for the banking elites, but lousy business for the US taxpayer. And it’s all being orchestrated by one of their own, in the shape of Hank Paulson , ably assisted by Neel Kashkari , another […]

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October 28, 2008

US Attacks … (fill in Middle East country here)

In this piece , it was reported that the US had attacked Syria.  Ooops.  We didn’t realize that the border was so close.  Like an elephant in a china shop.  Let’s hope it’s just not a shop in China. A month ago it was Pakistan.  Next month, it’ll probably be Iran.  In 2009, it’ll likely be Venezuela. ARE YOU NEXT?

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October 27, 2008

The Race … for a Share of the Porkbarrel Bailout

In the US, the race to the porkbarrel has begun .  Companies, lobby groups, consultants and other ‘experts’ are lining up at the trough to stuff themselves with US taxpayer cash. And you’d better damn well hurry because the Chinese are going to start calling loans and the cash will run out soon!! Ah, who am I kidding?  Unless you’re a good buddy to Bush […]