Posted by julian on October 20, 2008 in
Economy,
Politics
No, I am not a rocket scientist. In fact I lasted one term at college and if you had the opportunity to speak to any of my school masters, they will tell you they held little hope for my future once I was cast out into the world. Life for me was and still is [...]
Tags: Bank of America, BHP, BP, Capital Hill, Chevron, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Citibank, Denmark, Exxon, Free Enterprise, JP Morgan, Main Street, McCain, Merck, NY Mecrcantile Exchange, oil, Pfizer, Rio Tinto, Scandinavia, Shell, Socialist, Wall Street, Welfare State, Wells Fargo
Posted by julian on September 18, 2008 in
Economy,
Politics
As you can well imagine I am dancing on the graves of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. For years I have written about the greed and avarice of big business and the antics of Wall Street. I enjoyed claiming that the N.Y. Mercantile Exchange and Wall Street traders were simply cowboys. Yesterday, I almost “threw [...]
Tags: 401k, Asia, bail out, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Caterpillar, Germany, globalization, India, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Moscow, NASDAQ, NY Mecrcantile Exchange, Proctor and Gamble, Shanghai, TSA, United States, Wal-Mart, Wall Street