Archive for October, 2009
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The American Bankers Association (ABA) meeting is in Chicago this week. Apparently, there’s going to be thousands of protestors there outside. Screaming stuff like, “We want our money back!” or “Give Us Back Our Homes!” Well the bankers you want to scream at aren’t going to be at this conference!
Have A Great Weekend!
Big Dick a CHIEF, a BEAR, and Works UNDER No One
Editors Note–Its Friday and the snappy Big Dick, handicapper to the hoi polloi and glitteratti, is back to give us his always interesting pigskin prognostications. A nifty 2-1 record last weekmade all who followed his NFL plays, happy campers. We look to get happier this week. Take it away El Grande Dick–R.B.
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All is Well in Real Estate Right?
As we’ve talked about this a lot lately, there seems to be a lot of neato reports on residential real estate all over the globe. Luxury apartments, 2nd homes, even regular old sales numbers are up. Then there’s a nice thing that comes out every few days that makes me kind of scratch my head [...]
Car Czar? Worry About What You Know and The SEC
So The Detroit Free Press just published an article “Former Car Czar: GM, Chrysler Were on the Brink of Disaster”. You remember this guy Steve Rattner right? He was the Car Czar appointed by Obama who had to resign his post due to some more pressing matters. Something about the SEC investigating him and his [...]
Car Czar? Worry About What You Know and The SEC
So The Detroit Free Press just published an article “Former Car Czar: GM, Chrysler Were on the Brink of Disaster”. You remember this guy Steve Rattner, right? He was the Car Czar appointed by Obama who had to resign his post due to some more pressing matters. Something about the SEC investigating him and his [...]
First Consumerist Meetup 11/4!
I just got done setting up our equipment rental to show the Internets Celebrities movies from Rooftop Films, which means that our first Consumerist meetup must be very close indeed…
There Are Other Pirates Out There Too
Been following this “Raj Raj” situation. You’ve seen the newest insider trading scandal with billionaire Raj Rajaratnam allegedly at the helm right? Well its the biggest insider trading scandal involving hedge funds. See “Raj Raj” (which sounds a lot like “Bron Bron”) runs a big ol hedge fund named Galleon. Well Galleon is a ship [...]
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