December 24, 2008 - From: John Edwards and family
Dear friends and family,
Greetings from Elizabeth, Cate, Emma-Claire, Jack and that weird-looking bastard kid I fathered. First off, let me explain what kind of weird that kid is. Man, she looks like she has a giant toe for a nose. That's...
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October 1, 2008 - In college I took only one semester of Econ (and just barely passed), but even I know that we are not in an "economic crisis," a "recession" or a "depression," but a much bigger condition that economists call "the end of the United States."
Does that mean that our country...
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September 26, 2008 - Congress is like a slick Vegas magician. While our attention is on its fiddling with the Wall Street mess they slip a quick 25 billion in welfare to the auto industry and hope nobody was noticing. That means this month's bailouts are already over a hundred billion with a...
Filed under: financial crisis,
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September 26, 2008 - Come you masters of debt
You that owe the big bucks
You that sell off your shares
To some other rich fucks
You that mismanage funds
You that mishandle loans
I just want you know
I see through your Dow Jones
You that never done not...
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September 23, 2008 - This whole bailout thing is very eye-opening. Anytime the government wants to keep a company alive, no matter how poorly run and mishandled it might be, they can just buy it up and allow it to continue bl...
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September 23, 2008 - In 20 years, we'll be saying, "When the economy collapsed, CNN's Rick Sanchez was there."
Posted by: Kevin Allocca...
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September 22, 2008 - We're not economists, but according to our calculation, Wall Street is about to be swallowed up by a sinkhole. What can you do to protect your investments? Wait, you have investments? You're our most elite reader!
Normally, in times of such confusi...
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September 17, 2008 - If you're worried about your financial well-being, take solace in the fact that John McCain feels your pain. (Of course, that could be Cindy gobbling down his painkillers for breakfast.) Either way, after being slammed for saying the fundamentals of...
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September 17, 2008 - Washington Mutual might be the next bank to fail. Shares of WaMu, the nation's largest savings and loan, fell 27% on Sept. 15, to $2 a share. WaMu has $239 billion in real estate loans, and $53 billion of those are sub-prime. We don't know what that...
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September 16, 2008 - John McCain wasted no time in showing that he's a can-do guy when it comes to the economy. His solution to the economic crisis? Form a bi-partisan commission to study what happened. Great idea -- commissions are the perfect Washington solution. But...
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September 16, 2008 - Sure, the market crisis is scary. We're not worried because we keep our money in Confederate scrip stuffed in a cotton gin. But even if you're not a "banker" or "day trader" or "income-earner," you still may be affected by this week's economic upheaval.
How can...
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