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• THE BULB BUBBLE SET TO BURST POCKETBOOKS

  
  The Two-Fisted Quorum — Authority: 106
  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 ...
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• The Sellout: Bailout Roots From 9/11 To 1970s Penn Central

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
  By Loyd Eskildson In The Sellout , Gasparino traces the implosion of the financial services industry back to the late 1970s when Wall Streeters began taking much greater risks. Using leverage to take over companies, restructure, and then sell them at a profit, churning accounts (instead of advising clients on ...
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• Bad News For Goldman: Senator Sanders Proposes Legislation Naming TBTF Firms, Demands They Be Broken Up Within A Year

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Following up on the Kanjorski news earlier, it is now Senator Bernie Sanders who is set to anger PETA with his desire to disembowel pristine examples of cephalopodean vampyrrhic perfection. The Senator has revealed legislation which requires the AIG-bailout mastermind Tim Geithner to name banks "whose collapse may ...
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• Guest Post: Ridiculous Productivity

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by Chris Martenson of Chris Martensons Blog Market Recap - Ridiculous Productivity After digging around and sifting through the things both said and not said, I have come to the conclusion that what we are seeing are the likely effects of a rescue operation. By this I mean a large injection of ...
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• Brooksley Born: Responsible, Accountable, American

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  Politics has a way of reminding us that the conventional wisdom, while widely held, is not always wise.David CarrNew York TimesWashingtonThe Making Of An American LegendAs a nation, we’ve strayed from the values of our ancestors.  Shared interests have been supplanted by private interests. Being responsible for ...
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• War Of The RnR Pundits: The Rogers-Roubini Conflict Escalates; Will Gold Hit $2,000?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Earlier today Jim Rogers took a stab at Roubini saying that the NYU professor is wrong "about the threat of bubbles in gold andemerging-market stocks." In addition to claiming that commodities are still down and the equity markets are firing on all cylinders, Rogers added that the price of gold will double to $2,000 ...
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• What Galleon Teaches Us

  
  Breakout Performance: Ironfire Capital — Authority: 412
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• Pushing Money Around Is Not Banking

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  The essence of the ‘this time is different’ syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned [...]
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• Luncheonette: A Memoir: Steven Sorrentino

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Aspiring actor Sorrentino’s plans of making it big in New York are squelched when his father contracts a debilitating illness that paralyzes him from the chest down. Dutifully taking over dad’s role as proprietor of Clint’s Corner, a New Jersey shore luncheonette, ...
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• Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer: Stephen B. Goddard

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews Review “a wonderful job…fascinating bits of history…a valuable index and thorough bibliography. A A little over a century ago in Hartford, Connecticut, Colonel Albert A. Pope was hailed as a leading automaker in the United States. That his name is not a household word today [...]
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• "The Spiritual Journey of J. C. Penney": Orlando L. Tibbetts, Dr. Orlando Tibbetts

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews Much has been written about James Cash Penney as both a business genius and man of great influence during the 20th Century. Now, for the first time, Orlando Tibbetts, a retired Baptist Minister, looks behind the scenes of this fascinating figure in American history and charts J. C. Penney’s [...]
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• Thomas Mellon and His Times (Calvin Centre): Thomas Mellon

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews From Booklist Although his sons, particularly Andrew Mellon, are better known to the general public, it was Thomas Mellon who laid the basis for one of the great fortunes of the early-twentieth-century U.S. He was born in 1813 in Ireland’s Ulster province and immigrated with his [...]
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• "King of the Wildcatters": The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930 (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, No 9): Ray Miles

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews Review “… Miles gives us a highly readable biography of an intriguing person and a welcome addition to the history of oil’s first century.” - Southwestern Historical Quarterly; “… an informative and well-written account of the life of one of the most successful and best known [...]
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• Jacob Fugger The Rich: Merchant And Banker Of Augsburg, 1459-1525: Jacob Strieder, N. S. B. Gras, Mildred L. Hartsough

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews Review ?[Business] research has found nothing more interesting, more picturesque, more impressive in the vast power wielded, more valuable historically than the story of the famous Fugger family and the mighty business house it built and developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ...
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• Tim Geither and Friends: Cashing In

  
  Addiction in the 21st Century — Authority: 121
  Geithner’s crimes through AIG : will the truth come out?Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert and Webster Tarpley talk about AIG being used by Tim Geither to line in the pockets of Goldman Sachs and othershttp://maxkeiser1.blogspot.com/2009/11/aig-credit-default-swap-geithner.htmlrecorded on October 31th 2009.Read The Bloomberg ...
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• Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work Is More So

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  If Obama and the Democrats lose one or both houses of Congress in the midterms, it will be because the president learned only the most superficial lesson of the Clinton years. Health-care reform is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Just Desserts and Markets Being Silly Again

  
  John Mauldin's Outside the Box — Authority: 512
  My long time readers are familiar with Jeremy Grantham of GMO as I quote him a lot. He is one of the more brilliant and talented value managers (and I should mention very successful on behalf of his clients). He writes a quarterly letter which I regard as a must read. I have excerpted parts of his recent letter, where ...
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• Be Prepared for the Worst (Ron Paul)

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly. Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. ...
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• Guest Post: Systemic Risk is All About Innovation and Incentives: Ed Kane

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Guest post by Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics   "My dear sir, the Treasury order is popular with the people everywhere I have passed. But all the speculators, and those largely indebted, want more paper. The more it depreciates the easier they can pay their debts… Check the paper mania and the ...
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• Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s legacy

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1958, Rand became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, selling millions of books and inspiring countless readers-ranging from former Federal ...
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