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• Wither Wikipedia?

  
  The Mess That Greenspan Made — Authority: 596
  The Wall Street Journal reports($) that Wikipedia is losing volunteers at a quickening pace, casting some doubt on the future of the worlds most popular encyclopedia. Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions ...
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• Nnamdi Asomugha named to “Dream Team for Public Service”

  
  Just Blog Baby | An Oakland Raiders Blog — Authority: 117
  Nnamdi Asomugha is keeping some rare company these days. He’s already known as the best shutdown corner in the NFL. A defensive force so dominant that he did the impossible and kept Chad Ochocinco’s mouth shut for an entire Sunday afternoon.After receiving a mega contact this offseason, Nnamdi also joined the ...
  6 hours ago

• Dead Battery of the Decade Award: Alan Greenspan

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 649
  We have worked hard this year to award great journalism and excellent work . Now we’d like to present our first Dead Battery Award to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: Readers who liked this also enjoyed these posts: First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism: Best Book Bailout Nation ...
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• HR1207 Passes committee against Barney Frank’s wishes

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 121
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials ...
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• Tonight: Lee Konitz @KenCen Terrace Theater

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  Cool Jazz sax legend Lee Konitz stops by the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater tonight—in advance of his show,  Washington City Paper talked to Konitz about his upcoming projects, working with the contemporary jazz trio Minsarah ,  and Alan Greenspan .  Washington City Paper: How did you get hooked up ...
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• Ron Paul’s Amendment To Audit The Federal Reserve Approved

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 430
  StreetInsider | A key House panel approved the Paul-Grayson Amendment by an overwhelming 43-26 Thursday afternoon, which will give watchdogs new authority to audit the Federal Reserve. Here is a summary of the Paul-Grayson Amendment: Dear Financial Services Committee Colleague: It is encouraging to see the issue ...
  3 days ago

• "Psst! Mr. Greenspan!"

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 139
  "Bubble," DefinedFor the benefit of Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who claimed inability to identify a bubble before it popped, here is the best, clearest definition Ive seen yet:Currency is like any financial innovation, an obligation secured by assets. When the obligation is perceived to have ...
  3 days ago

• Grayson Post-Mortem On Last Nights Historic Fed Transparency Victory And The Revelation Of Barney Franks Hypocrisy

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  After the historic defeat of Fed anti-transparency amendments, and the most recent disclosure that despite all his posturing Barney Frank is, as expected, deep in the pockets of the Wall Street and Fed kleptocracy, here are some post-mortem observations from Grayson, Spitzer and Ratigan. From the ever colorful ...
  3 days ago

• Bernie Sanders vs Greenspan 2003 video + AUDIT the FED!

  
  Stars Over Washington — Authority: 132
  On Sept 16, 2003, Sen. Bernie Sanders dressed down then-Fedhead Alan Greenspan in front of the House Financial Services Committee and it does my heart good to see and hear Sanders rant again. It does my heart angry to hear Greenspan give his namby pamby answer which fails to address the basic accusations leveled at ...
  3 days ago

• Eliot Spitzer’s New Crusade Against Obamanomics

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 438
  Are Obama’s economic policies actually working ? Eliot Spitzer says No! Spitzer is taking aim at the [Obama} administration’s approach, accusing it of shying away from the kind of comprehensive reform that the financial system needs. The Obama administration is not so different from the Bush administration, at ...
  3 days ago

• A One-Graphic Thermometer for the Economic Slowdown

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 548
  When money is treated as materials rather than a rate of activity, GDP can quickly freeze, as this graphic shows.
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• THE BORN CONSPIRACY (redux) ... STARRING ELIZABETH WARREN

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 130
  One of the more exciting series Ive watched is the Bourne trilogy, starring Matt Damon. Painted as an out of control experiment gone bad, Jason Bourne is pursued by powerful forces trying to protect both themselves and a turf they believe others simply dont understand. The Bourne reference to Elizabeth Warren will ...
  4 days ago

• Housing starts and 10 year tsy rates

  
  The Center of the Universe — Authority: 431
  [ Skip to the end ] Interesting how high housing starts were when interest rates were a lot higher than they are now. And if you ‘population adjust’ the housing starts the ‘Greenspan super bubble’ fell far short of previous highs, even with much higher mtg rates back then. (add about 2% to the 10 year note ...
  6 days ago

• Quotes For The Week

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 572
  We’ve hit the trifecta this week… Since last year’s collapse of the banking system, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent to bail out some of the major players. Additionally, governments all over the world, and their central banks, have implemented huge stimulus programs to combat the consequences of ...
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• Lessons Learned From A Guy Who Made $20 Billion in Two Years

  
  Kevin Hoffberg's Blog — Authority: 115
  Here’s a story lead from the WSJ that should get your attention: Even as the financial system collapsed last year, and millions of investors lost billions of dollars, one unlikely investor was racking up historic profits: John Paulson, a hedge-fund manager in New York. His firm made $20 billion between 2007 and ...
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• Sick around the world

  
  The Mess That Greenspan Made — Authority: 596
  PBS reran this 2008 Frontline documentary the other day that looked at health care systems in other developed countries around the world and, if youre interested in seeing how we compare, its well worth 50 minutes of your time. The fact that personal bankruptcy due to unpaid medical bills is virtually unheard of ...
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• Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead of Greenspans Errors

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 816
  Filed under: Economy , Woman Up Through their views on the virtues of free markets and individualism, Ayn Rand and the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan are forever linked as architects of the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression.   Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
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• Everything Old Is (Really Not) New Again

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  By Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt Everything old is new again.  Except... not really.  Go back, for instance, to September 1974. Click to Play Black and white television is not, as it happens, new again.  True, Steve Jobs is already wearing black turtleneck and glasses, but hes named William Simon.  A ...
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• The Worlds Most Important Trading Desk Is Not At Goldman, But Is On The 9th Floor Of 33 Liberty Street

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Even though our good Samaritan friends at One New York Plaza may take offense to this designation, the trading desk that controls the formerly free world is not located anywhere on the premises of Goldman Sachs, but is instead situated on the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, also known as the home New York Fed. From a ...
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• THE BULB BUBBLE SET TO BURST POCKETBOOKS

  
  The Two-Fisted Quorum — Authority: 100
  CALL IT GREENING RUN AMOK. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs—whether they wanted them or not. According to ...
  2 weeks ago

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