Saturday, August 28, 2010

Katrina Report: Waste, Fraud and a Booming Receivables Business

Scam scourge, Cajun style.
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Friday, August 27, 2010

When Public Service Cuts Threaten Domestic Tranquility

Are cuts in law enforcement and emergency response upholding the constitution?
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Fed Not Alone in Needing Bankruptcy Reorganization

Does the IMF think the U.S. is a banana republic?
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Friday, August 27, 2010

$10/Gallon Gasoline Is a Cinch With Ever More Q.E.

What St. Louis Fed president Bullard calls "economy" is a den of thieves.
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Agreeing With Siegel for the Record: Bond Market a Bubble

Coming inflation will be huge.
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Friday, August 27, 2010

The Bank as Chicken and the Borrower as Rotten Egg

If equity were valuable, then banks would be lending.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Simple Truth About Why Banks Are Not Lending

The "now you see it, now you don't" risk on bank books.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Rational Taxpayer v. Dimwitted Puppets of Tyranny

Treasury debt is minuscule to the mountain made on Wall Street and the City.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Profound Complacency at the Precipice of Financial Collapse

Look at all the little piggies in their starched, white shirts...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Hindenburg Omen: The Fed, Too, Will Crash and Burn

All the liquidity in the world cannot stop the downward spiral in a long neglected physical economy.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Doomed to Fail: A Federal Reserve Captive to Ponzi Finance

Insert colorful word between "Jackson" and "Hole" here.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Saving U.S. AAA Credit Rating an Act of Congress Away

Keynes was no match for those in public service steeped in a Hamiltonian credit system.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Financial Commentators Adding to a Crisis of Confidence

What good is free speech without courage to tell the truth?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Making Lemonade From a Lemon Named George Pataki

Calling for Republican party phonies to step aside and make way for Abe Lincoln.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Public-Private Partnerships: How to Subsidize Tyranny

Is there a Republican among us who understands Lincoln's "greenbacks" policy?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Bill Gross Agrees: Geithner and Summers Must Go

Shocking! Main St. finds little support in DC, says PIMCO head.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Raising Prospect of Impeachment of President Barack Obama

Geithner, Summers must go: Boehner
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Fed Needs Mandate Ensuring Financial Stability: Stephen Roach

The Federal Reserve must cease promoting asset and credit bubbles.
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Increased Bank Lending Is Unlikely Without Toxic Writeoff

Let's stop pretending the financial system is solvent (or anything but an albatross).
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Monday, August 23, 2010

When Men Are Sheep, They Are More Easily Sheared

Business and education: the slave and the master.
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Community Bankers Weakly Protest Monopoly Control

Regulatory reform sure to destroy community banking meets chickens laying eggs.
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Monday, August 23, 2010

A Quacking Chief of Staff Pleasantly Debated

Pondering how a desirable authority might be tragically compromised.
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