Good Old Neon

A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html?hp

True, but even experienced, highly educated, market savvy investors lost their shirts. Plus, if folks have that impression, it

I've heard good things about this show, in your opinion, would you say it's The Gilmore Girls?

According to the nerds over at Wired, the following formula "destroyed" Wall Street. So, as you can plainly see, any moron could and should have figured it out. A link to the interesting, if slighly opaque article - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/1...currentPage=all

I often wonder if he makes such claims to underline and sort of triple-exclamation-mark the tragic irony that the show you

So you're saying there's hope for me yet?

Oh, snap. From Salon: The U.S. economy is freaking China out The story of the hour in global financial circles: China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, is "worried" about the value of his country's huge investment in United States Treasury bonds. "President Obama and his new government have adopted a series of measures to deal with the financial crisis. We have expectations as to the effects of these measures," Mr. Wen said. "We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried." Of cour

Given that this recession is global, and do in large part to developments here, the video would be well received pretty much anywhere at the moment, regardless of geography or the viewer

I could give you a long, boring synopsis of Chomsky

It runs so much deeper than that even. This is what now passes as professional journalism at its finest. Moreover his is not just an indictment of CNBC, it's an indictment of "60 Minutes" and its "investigative" progeny -- tired vaudevilles, lifted and botoxed. ALL of the "Mainstream" media is Jim Cramer. ALL of it.

Watch it!

That depends, are you money mad?

Well then, I raise you a John Denver.

Not if you want to retain even a shred of your indie street cred you don

Happy Birthday, I hope it nets you more than your namesake.

Yeah, I consider myself to be fairly open-minded, but there

It

Damn, that was fan-fucking-tastic and also maybe a little bit hard to watch. What

I believe this has already been posted, but given the trajectory of the current discussion, I think it deserves another look. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...inancial-advice

Just add

The market no longer bears the expense, we do.

TV = reality. Now, how long do you think it will it take for republicans and others on the right who say celebrities should just like, shut up and stay out of politics to tell Chuck to do the same?

I think I

Exactly, and none other than Warren Buffet himself has admitted as much. Right again! And but hey, someone has to pay for two wars, (the justification for one of which is debatable, Afghanistan, the other, Iraq, a fucking farce) and the rescue of capitalism, which, were it not for our tax dollars, would have resulted in a meltdown not dissimilar to the USSR