Archive for the ‘Finance’ Category
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Manchester United’s New Sponsor
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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Pension
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
A president’s pension currently is $191,300 per year, until he is 80 years old.
Assuming the next president lives to age 80.
Sen. McCain would receive ZERO pension as he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as president.
Sen. Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms and would receive $4,973,800 in pension.
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US Tax System in Beer Terms
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Here is a simple explanation of how the USA tax system works from a University of Georgia Professor of Economics. It is in terms EVERYBODY should be able to understand. Feel free to forward on I don’t know how it can be explained much clearer
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Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and [...] -
Elliot Spitzer’s Girl
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0312084kristen1.html
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Working Americans
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
From a Wall Street Sales Trader:
THERE IS NO PHRASE IN MODERN POLITICS THAT IRRITATES ME MORE THAN “WORKING AMERICANS.”
WHEN OBAMA OR CLINTON OR MCCAIN SAYS “WORKING AMERICANS,” THEY ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU OR ME. THEY NEVER ALLOW US TO FORGET THAT WE DO NOT DO “REAL WORK.”
WORK ISN’T REAL WORK, APPARENTLY, UNTIL THE LABOR [...] -
Ben Bernanke at Goldman Sachs?
Monday, January 28th, 2008
In October, Representative Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, embarrassed herself during a Congressional hearing on broadband access with an out-of-the-blue rant against Internet smut. On Thursday, she distinguished herself once again while questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a Committee on the Budget hearing.
KAPTUR: Number three, seeing as how you were the former CEO of Goldman [...] -
FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS A WEEK
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.
Kerviel was known to start work as early as nine in the morning and still be at his desk at five or even five-thirty, often with just an hour and [...] -
SocGen’s Kerviel hits Hollywood
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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Absolute Recession
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
This forward was proven to be a spoof, by the way.
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1/14 16:06:09 Legendary Funds Manager Julian Robertson Predicts Utter Global Collapse Stemming From Bursting of Property Bubble
In a recent interview on CNBC with Ron Insana, one of the “old-timer”funds manager, Julian Robertson, predicted “utter global collapse” as a consequence of the bursting of the world-wide [...]
