"Darling rejects bankers' pay caps demands" - he's NOT better than "bankers" - and should go !
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:19:17 GMT
Darling rejects bankers' pay caps demands
Chancellor tells Treasury Select Committee it is essential that banks are
able to retain key staff, despite row over bonuses.
The Chancellor today resisted calls to cap the pay of executives in the
banks bailed out by the Government and said that Britain had already ...
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Re: Joe Bloggs needs national secularism not Obama doublespeak
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:43:00 +0000
dev carter wrote:
Geez, you don't care who you hate, do you?
Actually there are minute crystals of truth in there, but if you think
you're going to persuade anybody with that tirade, then you're
misleading yourself just as much as Joe Bloggs is misled by the
Establishment.
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Doug ...
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What the Tories need to know
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:32:33 -0000
Some blah-blah theory.
Improvements in living standards will no longer be measured or obtained
using the traditional market. Cash has lost its reliability as a way to
measure value.
In a traditional market, money was used to eliminate ambiguity or dishonesty
in business deals. It expressed value in numbers ...
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What Gordon Brown ought to be saying
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:30:35 -0000
He ought to be saying "Here are the practical consequences of the great
mismatch of capital and value that I and my American friends created between
1997 and 2007.
Needless to say, financial services will be smashed to bits.
Newspapers will vanish. Broadcast media will become meaningless. Something
bad wil ...
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The People's Budget
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:42:15 +0000
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-Od1MMa78&feature=channel_page ...
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What Brought on the Collapse
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:14:22 +0000
http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2519
Economy In Crisis
What Brought on the Collapse
Author: Edward J. Dodson
Published On: 02/26/09
Source: www.EconomyInCrisis.Org
The measures being proposed to stabilize our financial system
and the economy reflect the sad state of discourse on substantive
econ ...
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Why Obama has so many things totally ass-backwards
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:08:50 +1100
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz:
Obama Has Confused Saving the Banks with Saving the Bankers
We get reaction to President Obama?s speech from Nobel economics laureate
and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz says the
Obama administration has failed to address the structura ...
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Where's Fred Weiss? Lost his shirt on the Stock Market maybe
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:59:49 +1100
LOL - I truly hope so, for that will be to his and many others advantage if
he did!
A few months ago, before the September 2008 major crash that's still rolling
on today ... dear Fred had all the scum bag answers refusing to admit to my
statements that the Stock Market was nothing but #Casino Gambling# on a
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Remember 2006? I told you we were in trouble
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:23:40 -0800 (PST)
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.politics.british/browse_thread/thread/581541fe761683b7?hl=en&q=1.3+trillion+be+afraid#4ff8c378cc02e344 ...
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Its a shot in the dark
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:10:33 -0800 (PST)
Its a shot in the dark. The hope is to get the world's governments to
re-inflate a credit bubble with public finances. Will it work? Well,
it might be 50% likely to recover adequate lending. But even if it
does that the costs are huge.
If it don't work then we're in really deep trouble ? utter catastrophe
T ...
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