Archive for April, 2010
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Editor’s Note–When last seen the high flying Big D was giving us solid basketball winners. Now he switches gears to the 136th “Running of the Roses”, the Kentucky Derby. Big Dick get us into the winner’s circle, preferably with a nice longshot!–R.B.
Another Sign Post Up Ahead That Says, "We’re F**ked!"
Our pal Russ Middleton shot this piece of news over to us this afternoon. By the way, visit http://refirockzoo.eventbrite.comand have a blast at Russ’ annual (actually, it’s starting to feel like he is having them about once a month!) “REFI ROCK”.
Interesting Dinner Conversation
So say you are a German family and you still have the first nickel you ever earned. You eat 2 slices of bread a day, drink water that is free, and go to the local department store to watch your TV, pretending to be “buying”. Then one day, your Chancellor (head of the government) says [...]
Business Finance For Yorkshire Companies
Start-up support group Connect Yorkshire will run the Yorkshire Understanding Finance for Business scheme, an initiative offered by Yorkshire Forward as part of the Governments Solutions for Business platform.
They’re Gonna Bag You Too
Well I gather everyone is a little “Senate Hearing-ed Out” after yesterday? It got progressively more boring as it went on, but those first 5 hours with that 1st panel of 2 former Goldman guys and 2 current Goldman guys was perhaps the greatest form of “unintentional comedy” that I have seen on TV in [...]
This is No Shitty Hearing
Normally, we try and keep this blog at a PG level. You know.A family type blog. But when United States Senators, on live television, in the daytime, use the word “shitty” about 20 times, I can too.
A Nice Repost For Goldie-Day!
We figure as long as Lloyd and the boys will be defending their position as The Lord’s Investment Banker tomorrow, it would be great if one of our Senatorial lions ask Lloyd and counsel about this.
Nothin But Blue Skies From Now On…….
Even though it’s raining outside, its sunny in the financial markets. Yep. The government has announced they will start selling the trust preferred shares that they (um, we the people) own in Citigroup (ticker: C). Yep Timmy Geithner says we the people are not only gonna get our money back, but we are gonna MAKE [...]
The Goldman E-Mails
A quick post on the internal Goldman emails released yesterday in the New York Times. I think if the Senate is going to hold these emails up as evidence that Goldman was acting in bad faith, or committing actual fraud, they are going to get mushed.