November 2009
November 30, 2009 –
This was a fave caps red thumb back in the day. Guess this is why: [more]
November 24, 2009 –
I get the occassional phone call requesting information about Mr. Stone. I don't have a lot to say about him, but since I got one of these calls today (which caller I referred to the internet for more info), I'll just repost some Jeffrey Stone classics. [more]
November 23, 2009 –
Just wondering, because a map I found through a link on Brokamp's blog shows that the DC area has pretty much the highest concentration of high income counties in the U.S.A. [more]
November 23, 2009 –
A lot can get lost in translation. [more]
November 23, 2009 –
So wait, the government throws a bunch of money at homebuyers to get them to buy houses at inflated prices. They sort of do for months, and then, when it appears the free money might end, they engage in a little panic buying to get that free money.
And this surprises Mr. Market? And this convinces Mr. Market that an bump built on market-distoring taxpayer-funded handouts means a sustainable... a sustainable what, exactly?
Sj
November 20, 2009 –
Isn't that just so great of them? After all the billions of government handouts they took? After all the excuses they made claiming they didn't need them, or even, haven't benefitted. After the CEO shoved his foot into his mouth all the way up to his groin making ridiculous defensive statements such as Goldman is doing God's work... After hijacking a nice supply of H1N1 vaccine because Goldman employees are too important to wait in line at public clinics like everyone else... [more]
November 20, 2009 –
That's what he's saying here. [more]
November 19, 2009 –
Congress seems to have gotten one right here. Let's hope they get it done. [more]
November 19, 2009 –
As we may have discussed here in the past. Comrade BO uses his staff of whitehouse bloggers to fight back against any media reports that dare question the White House's official, sunny estimates of the usefulness of the billions in stimulus money rammed through congress. [more]
November 19, 2009 –
"Unchanged." [more]
November 17, 2009 –
The Chinese must be desperate indeed if they're willing to buy the same pigs in the same pokes -- that is, buying the same lousy, opaque, risky mortgage-backed assets. First ya gets burned on the stuff bundled by the banks. Now you're going to buy the small and medium sized banks themselves? The ones that are setting up for massive waves of failure as commercial loans head south? [more]
November 16, 2009 –
I've already pointed you toward a nice article that shows how 98 U.S. Senators and the vast majority of U.S. reps voted to hand billions of dollars toward the crooked homebuilders who helped inflate the housing bubble. Review the handouts here. [more]
November 15, 2009 –
Sickening. [more]
November 12, 2009 –
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November 12, 2009 –
I don't normally plug my service here, but I'm proud of the stuff we're doing at HG, so here it is. [more]
November 04, 2009 –
From the hilarious FAQ of a certain scammy-looking website being currently spammed on TMF comment threads. [more]
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