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From the page: "What does one TRILLION dollars look like? Click Here All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... A billion dollars... A hundred billion dollars... Eight hundred billion dollars... One TRILLION dollars... ... more
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http://billstclair.com/blog/images/bigthree.jpg
I don't know who put this together but its a real hoot. The problem of course is that it is so American Auto Makers and so uaw. I say dump the whole industry right now before they take the "real" working American's down the tube with their stinking metal... more
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Salon.com | Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Streets...
...read it and weep...DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR PIMPS ARE?...essential summary of the financial and media failures by glenn greenwald with focus on the criminal incest-like relationship between the banksters and their regulators...
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The Greatest Benjamin Franklin Quotes
From the page: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. They that can give up essential... more
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Obama Is Running A "Gangster" Government
54% of the American electorate last November, voted for a communist gangster government. Where is the opposition on this. Time to quit talking and run the person who has yet to produce the long form birth certificate from Hawaii, in the white house out of the office through... more
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Great Depression Cartoons
A set of political cartoons from the Great Depression. Anything familiar about them?
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Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-Fated.: Why Washington shouldnt...
From the page: "On March 30, 2009, the president of the United States told an anxious nation: â€oeLet me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running G.M.” If only he were telling the truth. One way you could tell Barack Obama was being less than... more
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The Raw Story | Kucinich to probe $3.6 billion in Merrill...
The Merrill bonuses were 22 times larger than those paid by AIG ($3,620 million versus $165 million). They were also very large relative to the TARP monies allocated to Merrill. The Merrill bonuses were the equivalent of 36.2% of TARP monies Treasury allocated to Merrill and... more
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t r u t h o u t | The Big Takeover
From the page: " The mess (AIG exec) Cassano created had its roots in an investment boom fueled in part by a relatively new type of financial instrument called a collateralized-debt obligation. A CDO is like a box full of diced-up assets. They can be anything: mortgages,... more
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Opinion: Wall St. Bonus Outrage - WSJ.com
From the page: "The need for new compensation rules is most urgent at failed banks. This is not merely because is would make for good PR, but because lavish executive bonuses sometimes create an incentive to hide losses, to take crazy risks, and even, according to Mr.... more
