Boy, I Know That Feeling
Posted by TRex@ 11:25 pm Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics | 8 Comments »(Above: Dr. Freud and his *AHEM!* cigar.) Paging Dr. Freud, we have an unintentionally dirty-sounding news item that requires your immediate attention: “There is nothing fundamental that came out today or yesterday that would take it up or down. We’re all groping ...
“Right Down to the Tires on their Mercedes”
Posted by TRex@ 9:34 pm Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics, the good guys | 27 Comments »(Via Sully) Oh, do let's play "Wall Street Reckoning"! This sounds like a great game.
Funny, This Doesn’t Exactly Fill Me With Confidence
Posted by TRex@ 8:58 am Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Doormatocrats, eek!-onomics | 11 Comments »Nancy Pelosi on Wall Street Welfare: (The Politico) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today said that Democrats would "not simply hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street" and called for "independent oversight, protections for homeowners and constraints on excessive executive compensation" ...
Shorter Barack Obama:
Posted by TRex@ 11:05 pm Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in 2008 Race, eek!-onomics | 4 Comments »"Bitch, please. What in the hell are you even talking about?"
Holy Smokes
Posted by TRex@ 4:34 pm Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics | 5 Comments »I have to echo Choire Sicha's sentiments about the financial meltdown: We don't even know what he's talking about, but here's three minutes of Jim Cramer on CNBC losing his mind. It sounds kinda bad! If any of us OWNED ANYTHING ...
A Very Taxing Day
Posted by TRex@ 10:52 pm Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics, misc. | 74 Comments »Welp, through the miracle of procrastination, I am furiously trying to figure out what to do about my taxes, still, and it's nearly 11:00pm on Tax Deadline Day. Looks like I'll be filling out this little form here for an ...
Fat Charlie Presents: The Definitive Explanation of Why the Markets Are FUBAR
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 11:07 pm Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics | 33 Comments »What a Country, eh?
Posted by TRex@ 1:12 am Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, eek!-onomics | 33 Comments »So, let's review what we learned today. Keeping billion-dollar corporations from ever having to lie in the beds they made is more important than keeping working Americans in their homes. How's that again? Here, Dana Peroxide will explain it ...
Do the Collapse
Posted by TRex@ 11:53 am Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in eek!-onomics | 29 Comments »I will be the first to admit that certain things are completely incomprehensible to me. How to fold and cut a paper snowflake, for example, or that whole Schroedinger's cat thing, or why exactly Einstein thought that time slows ...
Medicated Goo, Part Two
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 11:24 pm Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in 2008 Race, Doormatocrats, eek!-onomics, public health | 42 Comments »The United States will get a value added tax when conservatives realize that it is regressive, and liberals realize that it is a money machine. -- Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury I may not have the answer, but I believe ...