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 October 9, 2008 in
Economy,
Politics I thought rock bottom was hit when the bailout received a negative response from the share market, but it has gone from bad to worse. Why? Hedge Fund operators (like the cowboys in the pits of the Mercantile Exchange operations in N.Y. and Chicago over the prices of oil futures) have lost their control over [...]
Tags: AIG, bailout, Bear Sterns, Bugatti, Economy, Ferrari 599, hedge funds, Lehman Brothers, NY Mecrcantile Exchange
Posted by julian on September 29, 2008 in
Economy,
Politics Goodbye to capitalism as Wall Street has created it over the past twenty-five years and a huge thank you to the Bush/Cheney administration for giving us eight years of unchecked growth in greed, avarice, recklessness and sheer stupidity culminating in a global meltdown of the financial system. In the olden days Wall Street was about [...]
Tags: Bush, CEO, Cheney, Citibank, Denmark, Fortune 500, Main Street, Marx, NY Mecrcantile Exchange, NYSE, Social Security, United States, Wal-Mart
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
