I’ve been on deadline in the past week or so, so I haven’t had a chance to weigh in on Eric Holder’s predictable decision to not pursue criminal charges against Goldman, Sachs for any of the activities in the report prepared by Senators Carl Levin and Tom Coburn two years ago. Last year I spent a lot of [...]
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HOLDER WILL BE A VICE CHAIRMAN AT GOLDMAN WHEN HE DONE DOING NOTHING IN WASHINGTON!
AGAIN…THEY DON’T CARE HOW THINGS LOOK
They don’t care about conflict of interest. They don’t care about corruption. Just more of the same. Money flowing back and forth. Read this: WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Wall Street executive who performed an independent review that exonerated the Obama administration’s program of loans to energy companies contributed $52,500 to re-elect President Barack Obama [...]
GLENN HUBBARD IS JUST ANOTHER NUTCASE!
Yes…print money to fund deficits. Yes…leave rates at zero to create another bubble and screw savers. Yes…that’s the ticket! NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Ben Bernanke received an unlikely defense of his work at the U.S. Federal Reserve by a top Mitt Romney adviser, who said on Tuesday that he should be considered for [...]
IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT!
Prepare for another year of $1 trillion-plus deficits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday that the deficit for 2012 will run $1.1 trillion, the fourth year in a row the shortfall will exceed $1 trillion. The projection is down a bit from an earlier estimate pegging the deficit this year at $1.2 trillion. The [...]
AMAZING APPLE!
Will Apple become the first trillion-dollar company? EARLIER this year, there was plenty of speculation that Apple’s stock had entered bubble territory. Investors apparently think otherwise: on August 20th the firm’s share price hit $665, giving it a market capitalisation of more than $623 billion—and making it the most valuable listed company of all time. [...]
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS CRAP UP…WHAT ARE PEOPLE THINKING?
Like many New York City bedroom communities, the Village of Freeport on Long Island lost its share of loved ones—including police and firefighters—on 9/11. Over 340 people from Nassau County were killed in the attacks. In the aftermath of the horror, messages of sympathy poured in from democracies around the world. But there were a [...]
08/20/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST
JUST LETTING YOU KNOW Apple…An Amazing Story Apple (AAPL) reported earnings recently and they missed estimates by a huge margin, and lowered by a huge margin. The stock gapped down on that, but didn’t go down any further and then went up another 17 today to 665 – a new closing high. Apple now has [...]
JUST ANOTHER SCHMUCK POLITICIAN..WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR IDEAS FROM?
Updated 8:55 p.m. — A Republican Senate nominee found himself in hot water on Sunday for suggesting that instances of “legitimate rape” rarely results in pregnancy. Rep. Todd Akin, a Republican who’s locked in a hard-fought campaign in Missouri to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, was answering a question regarding his position on abortion rights in [...]
AND THIS IS A LEADER? YUTZ!
The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff — and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses. During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) took off his clothes and jumped into [...]
