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he may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but I assure you, he’s an idiot

December 19th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

  The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? – jrakoff   nybooks Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down economics to shreds in new policy statement – rawstory Snowden: NSA’s indiscriminate spying ‘collapsing’ – washingtonpost Glenn Greenwald: What I’ve Learned – esquire Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality – mtaibbi […]

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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

December 6th, 2013 · Comments Off on “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” · Uncategorized

  What is BitCoin? – businessinsider Is The Cult Of Central Bankers Unraveling? – forbes Alan Greenspan Played Daily Show’s Jon Stewart – tavakolistructuredfinancetavakolistructuredfinance 46 per cent global wealth owned by richest 1 per cent – ndtv Looting the Pension Funds – mtaibbi   rollingstone The Plot Against Pensions [pdf] Fed: Hedge Funds, Banks Sell […]

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

November 5th, 2013 · Comments Off on Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. · Uncategorized

  Chase Isn’t the Only Bank in Trouble – mtaibbi   rollingstone Wage Stagnation and Market Outcomes – economix   nytimes RIP, American Dream? Why It’s So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today – theatlantic Introducing ‘The Tuition is Too Damn High’ – 10parts   washingtonpost After the Meltdown – publicintegrity How Private […]

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the difference between doing something and doing nothing at all turns out to be a huge difference

August 28th, 2013 · Comments Off on the difference between doing something and doing nothing at all turns out to be a huge difference · Uncategorized

  The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis ‘You F–ked Up, You Trusted Us’: Talking Ratings Agencies Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It’s Currencies Chase, Once Considered ‘The Good Bank,’ Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement Chase Made Errors in Nine Percent of Credit-Card Collection Lawsuits, Internal Survey Finds New Bank Investigations: […]

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At it’s core, it’s just creative lying

August 12th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

  The Bradley Manning Verdict and the Dangerous “Hacker Madness” Prosecution Strategy – eff What It Means to Be An NSA “Target”: New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform – eff How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say – slate In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of […]

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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

June 17th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

  Digital Surveillance – openrightsgroup Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers   — Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution – guardian   — Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus: Whistleblower William Binney Speaks Out – democracynow As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, […]

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Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

June 7th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

  Why Are Homeowners Being Jailed for Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions? – rollingstone Unions to Banks: Pay Up – americanprospect CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law – bloomberg Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow – mtaibbi   rollingstone Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again – mtaibbi […]

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the only certainty is that what we’re watching is irresponsibility on an epic scale

April 29th, 2013 · Comments Off on the only certainty is that what we’re watching is irresponsibility on an epic scale · Uncategorized

Fiat Money Explained Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever – mtaibbi   rollingstone   Income Inequality: 1 Inch to 5 Miles – dcjohnston   taxanalysts Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year? – bloomberg Pew: 93% of households lost net worth 2009-11 – usatoday Corporate Tax Cheats on Tax Day […]

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our treatment of our most vulnerable citizens is a measure of our dignity as a society

April 8th, 2013 · Comments Off on our treatment of our most vulnerable citizens is a measure of our dignity as a society · Uncategorized

  State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America – dstockman   nytimes Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws – mtaibbi   rollingstone Drug Offenses, Not Violent Crime, Filling Up Federal Prisons – ibtimes U.N. rights chief calls for closure of Guantanamo prison As It Spied on Occupy Wall Street, Department of […]

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The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it.

March 25th, 2013 · Comments Off on The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it. · Uncategorized

  9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact – upworthy The benefits of increased productivity over the last 35 years have not gone to the middle class [chart] – stateofworkingamerica Before Greed: Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches – bostonreview An Embarrassment of Riches: Literature and the Ethics of Wealth […]

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