Category Archives: Finance

The CLOWNS “in charge” of the Fed don’t know shit

On the morning after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008, most Federal Reserve officials still believed that the American economy would keep growing despite the metastasizing financial crisis. The Fed’s policy-making committee voted unanimously against bolstering the economy by cutting interest rates, and several officials praised what they described as the decision to let… Read More »

Climate change pledges: rich nations face fury over moves to renege | Environment | The Observer

Not one hurricane in the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico this year and no comment in the media but ONE storm and a photo op of some shanties blown over and it’s all climate change Armageddon. Fucking liars… Climate change pledges: rich nations face fury over moves to renege | Environment | The Observer. Tax… Read More »

Secretary Kerry’s bombshell on the JFK assassination – Anderson Cooper 360 – CNN.com Blogs

Secretary Kerry’s bombshell on the JFK assassination In the five decades since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy many Americans have never believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman. Today Secretary of State John Kerry said that he’s not convinced either. Anderson discussed this with author Philip Shenon and presidential historian Douglas… Read More »

How to Decide on Surrogacy in India: 13 Steps – wikiHow

How to Decide on Surrogacy in India Edited by GlobalDoctorOptions, Maluniu, BR, Katie and 3 others Surrogacy in the United States costs US$60,000 to US$80,000[1] and it can be difficult to find gestational surrogates. Surrogacy in United Kingdom costs US$25,000 to US$35,000. Surrogacy in India costs US$15,000 to US$25,000[2]. What are the steps to exploring… Read More »

Tony Pierce was not the Father but California GovThugs do not care about the facts.

Full text preserved here for educational benefit. By Matt Welch, Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine and co-author with Nick Gillespie of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America, now out in paperback with a new foreword. Tony Pierce remembers vividly the exact moment in November 2000… Read More »

SD police sergeant stashes $100k/yr retirment in bank account for five years while still working!

This is how politicians get elected.  They allow the public unions to bankrupt the cities, counties, and states so they will endorse them for votes.  This forces companies to leave the state over high operating costs and drives the private sector into fiefdom with taxes on everything in the state.  This is a poor write… Read More »

Free market shut down so citizens are forced to do business with “legal” cartels.

Federal authorities have shut down what they called the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today,” an underground operation responsible for distributing illegal drugs and other black market goods and services. The site’s alleged owner, Ross William Ulbricht, was arrested and $3.6 million in anonymous digital currency known as Bitcoins was seized.… Read More »

‘The Entrepreneurial State’: Apple Didn’t Build Your iPhone; Your Taxes Did | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS

Government support for research and development is responsible for much of the innovation that drives GDP, argues Mariana Mazzucato. Photo courtesy of Stephen Yang/Bloomberg via Getty Images. As the deadline for raising the government debt limit fast approaches, and wrangling on the issue in Congress intensifies, Mariana Mazzucato reminds us of the difference between public… Read More »

Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 4, 2013 | PBS

JEFFREY BROWN: “If you want an education, the odds aren’t with you, JEFFREY BROWN: You add a larger level. You write: “Midway through the last decade, the 20th century, American higher education changed. Colleges and universities entered a new phase in which they stopped being intellectually driven and culturally oriented and began to model themselves… Read More »

Illegal tax to keep doctors and insurance companies wealthy and the middle class on a path to ruin!Early look at health law’s premiums – Yahoo! Finance

They also said the personal income tax was temporary and would never go above 1% of a persons wages… They always give the premium for an individual to avoid sticker shock. A 60 year old couple with the mid- range plan will pay $1528 per month based on the individual example they gave of $764… Read More »

The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America | Politics News | Rolling Stone

On May 31st, president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian masterstroke, he simply pretended they weren’t there and changed the subject. More Taibbi: The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis… Read More »

Opinion: 99 must-reads on income inequality – CNN.com

Stolen and preserved from here: Opinion: 99 must-reads on income inequality – CNN.com. 1. “The Price of Inequality,” by Joseph Stiglitz   2. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” by John Perkins   3. “Player Piano,” by Kurt Vonnegut (Vonnegut’s first novel; according to the back cover, it’s a “chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus,… Read More »

Quotes to live by….

“The longer the markets disobey basic rules of valuation, the bigger the opportunity for good investors to reap the benefits. Value investing works precisely because markets become dysfunctional at times.” -John Coumarianos Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the… Read More »

GET OUT OF THE STOCK MARKET NOW!

the last “crisis” was put together with derivatives and has not yet unwound completely. The “flash crash” was just a taste of what is to come.   (Reuters) – More than two years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was pushing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to get serious about the dangers of… Read More »

Obamacare FAILS because insurance with huge deductables is NO insurance at all

Free health clinic draws thousands in L.A. Transcript of this video This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program. >>> a sign of the times in los angeles these past couple of days. a sports arena transformed into the world’s biggest doctor’s office. thousands showed up to receive free health… Read More »

Mortimer Zuckerman “We are experiencing, in effect, a modern-day depression.”

We are experiencing, in effect, a modern-day depression.  Says Mr. Zuckerman  chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report. Consider two indicators: First, food stamps: More than 45 million Americans are in the program! An almost incredible record. It’s 15% of the population compared with the 7.9% participation from 1970-2000. Second, Social… Read More »

Woman who sets up her own rape and records it for “the rape discount” now fucks all women up the ass.

Crystal Harris, a financial analyst who makes a six-figure salary, apparently tired of supporting her husband so he could be their two sons stay at home DAD since the economic collapse made it hard for him to find work in the construction industry. So, apparently she figured out what no man ever has.  How to… Read More »