- “I love the irony of the image of a Robespierre for the outcry over the financial crisis. My guess is”
Posted on The New McCarthyism: fear of the Treasury Dept. and the pitchfork mob? March 25, 2009 10:29 AM - “The day Soros pulls out of his fund activities and puts it all under an indepedent foundation is the day”
Posted on Talking Your Book February 23, 2009 5:22 PM - “The infamous Monday meeting at Treasury, where Paulson handed out TARP money to the top banks, occured just one month”
Posted on Wall Street's Congressional Perp Walk February 12, 2009 7:53 AM - “You have an admirable faith in banking laws.”
Posted on Wall Street's Congressional Perp Walk February 12, 2009 7:37 AM - “There seems to be an emerging consensus that uber-banks are not a great idea. There is a lot of merit”
Posted on Rahm's Doctrine And Breaking Up The Banks February 2, 2009 9:00 AM - “No point to this part of the thread. I was trying to respond to eds post further down the thread.”
Posted on Claw Back The Bonuses February 1, 2009 6:10 PM - “Paulson moved from an investment bank where he accumulated significant stock shares and deferred considerable amounts of compensation over the”
Posted on Claw Back The Bonuses January 30, 2009 7:09 PM - “Of course the president made his "shameful" comment after a meeting in the Oval Office with Timothy Geitner, whose severence”
Posted on Claw Back The Bonuses January 30, 2009 1:34 PM - “I knew it! For a while I thought maybe one of the Sprouse twins, but they're not dark enough.”
Posted on Shovel This January 28, 2009 4:47 PM - “Why not nationalize the auto industry? Or even porn?”
Posted on A Really Bad Bank: Welfare as We Know It Now January 28, 2009 4:34 PM - “Good point. Simple example would be recent book values verse market price. Bear Sterns building in Manhattan was worth more”
Posted on The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over January 26, 2009 7:48 AM - “The 401Ks and pension plans are alreadt taking the hit and will continue to do so while things stay on”
Posted on The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over January 26, 2009 7:39 AM - “I think it's political fear, not fear of market consequence. Frankly, from where I sit (within the recently christened pariah”
Posted on The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over January 26, 2009 7:37 AM - “The retail operations in Japan can be sold day one for a nice bump. The issue is not the "practices"”
Posted on The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over January 26, 2009 7:28 AM - “Not to defend Krugman, but here is another perspective critical of the 60-Minutes segment. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/oil-speculation/”
Posted on Krugman was completely wrong January 12, 2009 3:39 PM - “Oh for the love of God!!! Get real!!! If there were such a thing as an omnipotent economist he'd never”
Posted on Krugman was completely wrong January 12, 2009 2:36 PM - “A bank is not merely a name that a financial system calls itself. It is a legal designation bestowed by”
Posted on Get Rich Quick - or How Social Security Worked January 9, 2009 5:02 PM - “Sorry, I omitted the emoticon from my post. Please insert ;> at the end of my post.”
Posted on Is Obama's Stimulus Plan Missing Something? January 9, 2009 10:17 AM - “Is Obama's Stimulus Plan Missing Something? Sure is, but Congress will fix it.”
Posted on Is Obama's Stimulus Plan Missing Something? January 8, 2009 7:20 AM - “I don't agree that John Paul II was highly educated. In comparison to Paul VI and Bene XVI, JPII was”
Posted on Vatican: The Pill Is Responsible for Environmental Pollution January 6, 2009 4:55 PM - “Son of Sam's neighbor's dog told him to kill people spooning in parked cars. Dog spelled backwards is god.”
Posted on God tells Pat Robertson to sell dollars and buy gold January 5, 2009 4:20 PM - “They want him to cooperate in order to get as much of the money back as possible. Shackles and chains”
Posted on Double Standard for Madoff January 5, 2009 4:16 PM - “Looks like the polls are favoring Cuomo. What's in a name?”
Posted on Caroline Kennedy -- Best NY Can Do? January 5, 2009 4:13 PM - “Good stimulus package, bad stimulus package... it's discussed ad nauseum from the perspective that the exact nature of a stimulus”
Posted on Bad Stimulus Package? January 5, 2009 12:43 PM - “I think the Israelis and Palestinians should go out into the desert, build two altars, one for Allah and the”
Posted on Why the Middle East Conflict Never Ends January 5, 2009 12:36 PM - “The premise of the question is literal and so requires a literal response: Because the Bible says so, you bloody”
Posted on His Only Begotten Son December 29, 2008 12:46 PM - “Absence of enforcement does not equate to lack of regulation. That said, I'm sure the Japanese would smile at Shooter's”
Posted on The Problem is Not Executive Compensation or Greed December 23, 2008 7:03 PM - “"...we should be talking as well about changing the structure of how economic companies are owned..." Wow, so not going”
Posted on The Problem is Not Executive Compensation or Greed December 23, 2008 1:09 PM - “People in New York are so stupid!”
Posted on Bloomberg Not Blue Enough For New York December 22, 2008 3:40 PM - “Bubbles are not a problem. Leverage within bubbles are the culprit. Who cares how overpriced a sector is if the”
Posted on Asset Bubbles: Does Talk Matter? December 19, 2008 6:36 PM
