Hot Links for Weekend Reading This week, we watched another episode of half-educated Congressional grandstanding. This time around, the focus of misguided indignation was how much TARP money ended up being paid out to executive compensation and bonus by the largest banks. The show-stealer was none other than Maxine Waters, the representative of California’s 35th…
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Hot Links: Gold, TARP and Pink Slip Parties
Hot Links for Weekend Reading This past Sunday, the most memorable commercial on the Super Bowl was Cash4Gold‘s spot featuring MC Hammer and Ed McMahon. What made the commercial memorable was not the humor (down-on-their-luck celebs melting their gold for money). No, the memorable aspect was the very existence of a cash for gold company…
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Hot Links for Weekend Reading Shedlock vs Schiff The big hullabaloo in Wall Street Blogland this week was the unsolicited Peter Schiff beatdown issued by Michael “Mish” Shedlock (Sitka Advisors) on his Global Economic Trend Analysis site. Mish was sick of all the “Peter Schiff Was Right” promotional videos floating around and decided to call…
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Hot Links for Weekend Reading: The country is made up of two types of people right now, those who care about the Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch saga and those who truly don’t mind being robbed and pillaged in broad daylight. When the news came out that Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain requested a $10…
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Hot Links Weekend Reading: The always erudite Equity Private wrote two great posts this week on Dealbreaker. The first was a satirical how-to guide to escaping capture after a “Massive Financial Fraud“. The advice includes “Don’t Watch CSI” and “Have a Plausible Explanation for Why Your Body isn’t Found”. He also wrote a timely and…
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Hot Links for Weekend Reading: Paul Kedrosky posts the 2008 words and phrases that should be banned from 2009 on Infectious Greed. My fave’s for banning for this year are Staycation, Carbon Footprint and of course, Bailout. Over on Dealbreaker, Equity Private posted the Top 10 Reasons I Invested My Entire Fortune With Madoff. Reason…
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Hot Links for Weekend Reading: December 26th, 2008
