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• Sick around the world

  
  The Mess That Greenspan Made — Authority: 589
  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: 814
  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: 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: 131
  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: 768
  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: 768
  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: 768
  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: 413
  By Eric Jackson ...
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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: 119
  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: 439
  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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