Stephen Colbert has found an outlet for our righteous anti-banker anger, and it also might be a good Fox-network replacement program for “Hole In The Wall”. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Keeping Our Heads comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford

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“…mistakes were made at AIG at a scale few could have imagined possible…” Uh, yeah, a scale so big that the fuck-ups who ruined the company are considered “good guys” for lowering their obscene bonuses to $100,000, which, last time I looked, was about TWICE THE MEDIAN ANNUAL INCOME IN THIS COUNTRY. This country has […]

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Wow. It’s distinctly possible that the government actually OK’d misrepresentation of balance sheets. This guy has an axe to grind, he’s a gold acolyte, but the technical analysis here is interesting, and rebuts Greenspan’s recent claims that he couldn’t do anything to stop the housing bubble because of the derivative markets, in fact claiming that […]

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I guess that AIG, Citigroup, et. al. have decided that contracts are only as sovereign when they are made with wealthy people, as confirmed by 3 recent reactions to the financial crisis that have become common currency lately. I think it’s eminently obvious by now that the same guys who are making this claim about […]

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Is it just me, or is this the stupidest TV show in history? I tuned in to catch the Simpsons, fearing that NASCAR might still be on, and to my horror I saw this: Again, is it just me, or would this be eminently more entertaining if the pool were filled with chlorine bleach or […]

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I heard about it in USA Today, they said it’s the latest thing, along with “e-lancing” and something called “MySpace”.  Apparently people use “blogs” to write “diaries” on the “intenet”.  It appears that people write about all sorts of things that are important to them, so I guess I will be writing mostly about myself, […]

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