Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 02:27PM Earth to Washington: Cancel Your Goddamn Vacations and Get Your Assess Back to Work
Enough with the Bar-B-Ques; This Is a Crisis If You Haven't Noticed
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:37PM
Q: Don't You Think Declarative Statements That Turn Out To Be Utterly Wrong Tend to Undermine Confidence?
A: Not When They Occur So Regularly
Geithner Repeated Says: "If You Listen Carefully...."
Advice: Try Speaking More Carefully
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 06:03PM Perhaps Therein Lies the Problem
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/25/geithner_we_write_80_million_checks_a_month.html
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 05:57AM Metaphor for U.S Debt Crisis... Prez and Boehner Make Deal and S &P Downgrades U.S. to "AA" Anyway Adding Insult to Injury
After a senselessly grueling negotiation for months on deficit reduction both sides lost all credibility shortly after making as deal. Within moments of word getting out that Obama and Boehner had reached an agreement, those rating agency geniuses from S &P announced there was still a 50-50 chance they would downgrade the U.S. to "AA" just for good measure as early as August. Second only to Moody's , S&P issued 64,000 AAA ratings for CDO's while only 7 U.S. Corporations maintain a AAA rating.
Friday, June 24th 2011, 9:44 AM
A Russian woman died from a heart attack brought on by the shock of waking up at her own funeral.
Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was mistakenly declared deceased by doctors, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
But she later woke up - in a coffin surrounded by sobbing relatives. She started screaming after realizing she was about to be buried alive.
Mukhametzyanov, a resident of Kazan, was rushed back to the hospital where she was declared dead -- this time for real.
Her husband, Fagili Mukhametzyanov, was distraught.
"Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes," he said.
He told The Sun that he would sue the hospital.
"I am very angry and want answers. She wasn't dead when they said she was and they could have saved her."
A spokesman at the hospital, also in Kazan, said officials were investigating.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 11:19AM How Brilliant Is This?????
Solar Grandmothers from Why Poverty? on Vimeo. chronicles the way in which grandmothers from across the world are chosen and taught to become solar engineers by Roy Bunker’s Barefoot College in India. After being trained, they return transforming the lives of the villagers whom they can now help. Roy Bunker says his barefoot college is the only college built by the poor, for the poor, and for the last 35 years, has been managed, controlled, and owned by the poor. This film will follow three women as they take a life-changing journey to India from their home villages in Africa and the Middle East.
Status: In production – Plus Pictures
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Producer: Mette Heide
Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 03:59PM
Mirror Mirror ont he Wall...
...Whose Got the Cheapest Capital of Them All?
Exhorbitant Pivilege, a term coined in the late '60s by those griping Frenchies, Valery Giscard d'Éstaing & Co, this concept nonetheless almost assures an over-all advantage of having the world's reserve currency and has been estimated to reduce the US cost of capital by nearly 300 basis points. In spite of our intellectual incontinence and policy failures, it seems by being reckless we have still taken advantage of the the largest pool of mispriced capital know to man.
http://pr3isl3r.homepage.t-online.de/texts/exorbitantprivilege.pdf