Misplaced Economic Outrage

Mar 17, 09 Misplaced Economic Outrage

Posted by in Bank Bailout, Recession Opinions

Boo hoo!  AIG paid their top executives $160 million of our hard earned tax dollars and we are supposed to be up in arms about it.  Maybe you are genuinely pissed about this issue; and maybe it’s a way to rile up the Joes to get a free drink at the local pub. Either way, I am quite bored by the grandstanding from...

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The Bank Bailout Boondoggle

Feb 11, 09 The Bank Bailout Boondoggle

Posted by in Bank Bailout, News, Recession Opinions

Now that a weak, and underfunded stimulus plan has been voted on by the Senate and is on its way to conference, let us turn our attention to something a bit more important: the looming collapse of our financial sector. In the midst of the political squabbling over the stimulus plan, we missed the fact that the $750 billion bank...

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