Black Box Financial Crisis

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Dylan Ratigan calls for Geithner’s head Last spring equinox I wrote: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew gum at the same time; that he spends at least an hour a day on the economy. Now, I understand that systemic problems demand systemic solutions. But …

Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges!

In his blog yesterday, The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat, Glenzilla summarizes the significance of Thursday’s bi-partisan vote on the Paul-Grayson Bill in the House Finance Committee that calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve. This is an effort that goes back at least 57 years when Congressman Wright Patman of the House Banking and Currency Committee complained: …

Is Goldman Sachs Losing It?

Back in March, I wrote: From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department— oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs– will announce tomorrow its plan to further reward the very people who brought down the country’s financial system and by extension, the world’s. Matt Taiibi has a more complete …

Eat The Rich

Matt Taibbi nails it over at Rolling Stone:: The best way to understand the financial crisis is to understand the meltdown at AIG. AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt in the mirror. This is a company that built a giant fortune across more than a century by betting on …

Some Of God’s Children. . .

. . .Get to paint. I’ll be painting a few days,   but first, I’m going out for Japanese food. I’ll be back blogging before the AIG rich prigs are hunted down like the pigs they are and we get our munnies back.  Well, actually that may never fuggin’ happen;  let’s just say I’ll be back way before I can no …

Torches And Pitchforks

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cStephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIGColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRap BattleNASA Name Contest Four hundred million years of evolution and Congress still doesn’t know how to GROW A SPINE!?! Stand up to these assholes at AIG and Goldman Sachs and the rest of the banking mafia, or get the hell off the Hill!