Robber Barons

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• **I Hear That Whistle When She Blows-Creation Of A Unitary Continental United States-State- The Building Of The Transcontinental Railroad

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 149
  Click on title to link to Wikipedias entry for the (First) Transcontinental Railroad discussed below. Book Review Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose, Touchstone Books, New York, 2000 I have spend a great amount of time, and I believe ...
  3 hours ago

• 2008 Financial Collapse: An Inside Job

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 583
  By Robert Singer Maybe it’s the smoke from Mt. Vesuvius that keeps Arianna Huffington and the financial community from seeing that the economic collapse has nothing to do with the Fed “missing” the warning signs leading up to the October meltdown. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”   John ...
  1 week ago

• Cartoon

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
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  2 weeks ago

• Cartoon

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
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  2 weeks ago

• The daily irrelevant » If the Lender Cant Find the Mortgage

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 159
  Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage , hadnt proved its claim to a delinquent borrowers home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461263 mortgage debt on the property
  2 weeks ago

• If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] One surprising smackdown occurred on Oct. 9 in federal bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage, hadn’t proved its claim to a delinquent borrower’s home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461,263 mortgage debt on the property. That’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] One surprising smackdown occurred on Oct. 9 in federal bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage, hadn’t proved its claim to a delinquent borrower’s home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461,263 mortgage debt on the property. That’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• FLAT FACT: AMERICAN MAINSTREAM, MASS MEDIA CONTROLLED BY ZIONISTS AND MUCH MORE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Thanks to EuroYank for reminding us of that video. EuroYank is also routinely censored even though he is clearly not a racist or ethnic bigot. He and I dont see eye-to-eye on everything, but we arent going to shoot each other to shut each other up. We arent going to work to stop each other from being allowed to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Public must learn to ‘tolerate the inequality’ of bonuses, says Goldman Sachs vice-chairman Lord Griffiths

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] In remarks that will fuel the row around excessive pay, Lord Griffiths, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding their staff. Speaking to an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral in London about morality in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another 100 Galleons?

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] At the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s conference on short selling, there was a fascinating paper presented by professor Nadia Massoud of York University. In it she provided compelling evidence that hedge funds actively short the shares of companies they loan money to directly before the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Safety Nets for the Rich

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we’ve allowed our country to fall into. The lead headline, in the upper right-hand corner, said: “U.S. Deficit Rises to $1.4 Trillion; Biggest Since ’45.” The ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.K. Financial Bonuses May Soar 50 Percent in 2009, CEBR Says

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] Bonuses for financial services employees may rise by 50 percent to 6 billion pounds ($9.9 billion) this year as profit at U.K. banks, brokerages and hedge funds rebounds, according to a Centre for Economics & Business Research Ltd. report. U.K. finance workers received about 4 billion pounds for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Obama Save America from Capitalism

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  If the Obama administration wants to be a truly transformational force in American history, rather than a slightly-better-than-average, one-term presidency with good intentions, it will give America the new New Deal.
  4 weeks ago

• No, You’re Reading That Right

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] Gordon Hageman couldn’t believe the credit card offer he got in the mail. “My first thought, it was a mistake,” Hageman said. The wine distributor called the number on the offer, gave them the offer code and verified his information. Sure enough, it was right: the pre-approved credit card came ...
  4 weeks ago

• Subprime and the Banks: Guilty as Charged

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] Apparently, when you say something long enough and loud enough, people start to believe it, even when it defies reality. Here, for instance, is the normally skeptical Barney Frank on the subject: “What happened was an explosion of loans being made outside of the regular banking system. It was largely ...
  4 weeks ago

• JP Morgan bankers on course for bumper bonuses

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] JP Morgan Chase signalled today that City firms are preparing to make huge bonus payments after it kicked off the US bank reporting season by smashing profit expectations. The bank revealed it had set aside $7.3bn (£4.6bn) in the third quarter to pay staff, taking the total remuneration pot for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quote

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  “Wall Street has now come up with a financial instrument called ‘Life Settlements,’ where investors purchase ill or elderly people’s life insurance policies up-front and save 40 cents on the dollar, bundle them, and when the policyholders die, investors get paid. So Wall Street is no longer like some financial ...
  6 weeks ago

• Federal Reserve Buys More Than 100% of Mortgages Issued in 2009

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority: 141
  [ Quote: ] In other words, the Federal Reserve alone bought $722 billion of mortgages and agency debt when only $686 billion in new mortgages were issued.  So, through August, the Fed bought more than 100% of the entire supply of new (purchase) mortgages in 2009. That’s not a free housing market; that’s a ...
  6 weeks ago

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