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Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts

Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2009

The Quiet Coup and the Coming Armageddon

Updated April 15, 2009 ...or How I Learned to Live in a Banana Republic Don't count this as rational. I'm a Terminator kind of guy a...

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Matt Taibbi on The Big Takeover

Select quotes from Taibbi's scathing piece in Rolling Stone ...this was a casino unique among all casinos, one where middle-class taxpay...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Teacher Unions and the UAW

Why Teachers Have an Interest in the Survival of the US Auto Industry GUEST EDITORIAL By Michael Fiorillo, Chapter Leader, Newcomers High Sc...

Monday, November 24, 2008

Back in 1929 Financial Crash it was said...

....that some Wall Street Stockbrokers and Bankers JUMPED from their office windows and committed suicide when confronted with the news o...

Friday, October 10, 2008

How Will Crisis Impact on Market Based Ed Reform?

For one who worked in the schools through the catastrophic financial crisis in NYC in 1975 and 1976, these times seem very familiar. The imp...

Thursday, October 9, 2008

The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Mayors

Miami teacher Paul Moore ruminates on the financial crisis' impact on the business model for education. - UPDATED Oh, they had such gra...

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

They Just Cut Interest Rates

What will they do when rates are zero? In the Japanese financial crisis of the 90's - the lost decade - where the stock market didn'...

If you had purchased...

..... $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. ......$1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would ha...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Will Obama or McCain Be FDR or Hoover?

UPDATE: Fred Klonsky on Palin's future - a companion piece “Terrorist,” they screamed at Obama at a McCain rally. “Kill him,” some in th...

Friday, October 3, 2008

The horror, Colonel Kurtz? Yes indeed and now the irony too!

From Paul Moore The horror, Colonel Kurtz? Yes indeed and now the irony too! John Castellani's puss has been all over TV for the last se...

September Madness

Which bank will win the tournament and become the only bank left standing? Choose the winner and take home the pool. Click to enlarge

Naomi Klein: Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street’s Shock Doctrine

The dumping of private debt into the public coffers is only stage one of the current shock. The second comes when the debt crisis currently ...

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The next time it could be an economic shock: Naomi Klein

Keith Olbermann discusses "The Shock Doctrine" with Naomi Klein. Video from Nov. 2007 http://www.naomiklein.org/video-audio/countd...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

700 Billion Reasons to Vote Against the Bailout

David Sirota actually has 5 reasons. Read them at Norms Notes.

If You Want to Dance, Pay the Fiddler

Thanks to Fred Klonsky over at Prea Prez for coming up with this almost perfect quote that can be applied to today's financial situatio...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Message to the Press: Ask tough questions about the bailout

Are we being railroaded into believing there's a phony crisis to force the public to pony up to rescue the wrong people? Is the "cr...

Friday, September 26, 2008

Hoola Hoops, Tulips, and CDOs... by George Schmidt

Naomi Klein points to the Chicago School of Milton Friedman's disciples as the most fundamental of capitalists. (To our educators, readi...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Dearest

Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministr...

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Awe Shocks: Disaster Capitalism in Action

Are we in the worst financial crisis since the depression of the 1930's? I'm not so sure. And why should we believe what we're b...

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Q&A on NYC Pensions

I remember hearing some bad stuff about how pensions and salaries were treated in NYC in the 30's. And we haev the example of the mid 70...

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