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  • Yesterday, I mentioned a book coming out next week called "House of Cards." It's about the collapse of Bear Stearns. Another excerpt was…

  • I did, just now, sitting at my desk. I wrote the script, cast it and directed it. And you can make one too at the site xtranormal.com. Their…

  • The more I read and think about AIG, the closer I get to having a conniption. Even Bernanke said it yesterday: nothing makes him angrier than the…

  • The latest car sales numbers just came in, and they truly are bad enough to make a grown man cry. GM and Ford sales fell by half in February. At…

  • I felt like I was watching a bad horror movie this morning as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress. Bernanke said the government…

  • There's an ugly, human thread that runs through all of the collapses and fraud on Wall Street. Two items I read this morning point it out clearly….

  • Man, the bad economic news just beats you down doesn't it? Today was especially dispiriting because… well, you know what? I'm declaring safe…

  • I remember vividly my first day taking a class on Soviet politics in college. The class began in August, 1991. The Soviet Union was collapsing…

  • Q: What happens to money when you throw it into a fire? A: The same thing that happens when you give it to AIG. Today's 4th bailout of the…

  • A new research paper suggests immigrants are leaving the US to return to their home countries — mainly because of the job market rather than…

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