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FROM: Mr. Lloyd Blankfein 200 West Street New York, New York 202-555-MOTU TO: CEO Chump City, ForeignLand Dear Sir: I have been requested by the Facebook Company to contact you for assistance in...
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View Article“Cozy Ties Between Regulators, Politicians and Utilities” Gives New Nuke...
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View ArticleThe Goldman Sachs Department of Justice™ Would Like to Apologize to Mr....
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View ArticleWednesday Morning: Meet Me on the Floor
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View ArticleThe West Is Shocked–Shocked!–to Find Qaddafi’s Loot in their Casinos!
[youtube]-Gf8NK1WAOc[/youtube] Now that they’re dancing on Moammar Qaddafi’s grave (or would be, if the rebels would end the trophy show of his body so he can be buried), they’re no doubt faced with a...
View ArticleShorter Jamie Dimon: “I am not a psychopath”
As business professor Clive Boddy describes it, banksters like Jamie Dimon succeed–and cause great catastrophe–because they are able to exploit the chaos of today’s business environment while ignoring...
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I’ve got that wonderfully satisfied yet mildly sick feeling I used to get after eating too many sweets as a kid, what with all the schadenfreude directed at Jamie Dimon and his $2 billion loss. But I’m...
View Article“Cozy Ties Between Regulators, Politicians and Utilities” Gives New Nuke...
Reuters reports this morning that Japan’s lower house of parliament has passed a law authorizing creation of a new nuclear regulatory agency. The second paragraph of the story stands out to me: The...
View ArticleThe Goldman Sachs Department of Justice™ Would Like to Apologize to Mr....
By now you’ve heard that Goldman Sachs will not be prosecuted for lying to its customers and having its CEO lie to Congress. “The department and investigative agencies ultimately concluded that the...
View ArticleImmunizing Crimes: Blankfein, Zirbel, and Arpaio, but Whither Corzine?
DOJ has been doing a lot of immunizing of late. There’s Lloyd Blankfein, who not only ripped off his clients with “one shitty deal,” he then lied to Congress about it. There’s Matt Zirbel,* the CIA...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg’s Fondness for Spying Extends to the Banksters
In the wake of the Boston bombing, Mayor Bloomberg had some fairly alarming things to say about privacy. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a...
View ArticleThe West Is Shocked–Shocked!–to Find Qaddafi’s Loot in their Casinos!
[youtube]-Gf8NK1WAOc[/youtube] Now that they’re dancing on Moammar Qaddafi’s grave (or would be, if the rebels would end the trophy show of his body so he can be buried), they’re no doubt faced with a...
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