Archive for November, 2008

  • Who Does This?
    Posted by on November 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pm, Comments: 0

    Why I Don’t Use the Hair Dryer In the Gym – A Short Story by Kid Dynamite Saturday afternoon I hit the gym to pound [...]

  • Run Bad
    Posted by on November 29th, 2008 at 7:21 pm, Comments: 0

    So I played the second part of the second installment of the PokerListings Run Good Challenge today. The bad news is that I finished last [...]

  • More Credit!
    Posted by on November 25th, 2008 at 11:28 pm, Comments: 0

    As if to mock my claim yesterday that you can’t solve a problem of excessive credit with MORE credit, the Federal Reserve today announced some [...]

  • Ponzi
    Posted by on November 25th, 2008 at 2:51 am, Comments: 0

    Oh man. What to say… Today I’m not focused on the Citi bailout – let’s talk about the FDIC “Temporary Liquidity Guarantee” program, and I [...]

  • Not Feeling It
    Posted by on November 18th, 2008 at 2:22 am, Comments: 0

    Seriously – I’m really not feeling the anger. Maybe this will hit the spot: Nov. 17 (Bloomberg)Four of the world’s biggest life insurers may acquire [...]

  • This Should Make You Very Mad
    Posted by on November 15th, 2008 at 2:45 am, Comments: 0

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hartford Financial Services Group Inc, a property and casualty insurer beset by worries about capital levels, said on Friday it agreed [...]

  • "If You Love America, You Throw Money In Its Hole!"
    Posted by on November 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, Comments: 0

    Via WallStreetFighter: President Bush Gives Nation “The Shocker” I love this video from the Onion – you really have to appreciate how accurate a parody [...]

  • Versatility
    Posted by on November 11th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, Comments: 0

    Before I explain the title of this post, I want to revisit my post from yesterday by adding Clusterstock’s John Carney’s lessons we’ve learned from [...]

  • Bailout Squared
    Posted by on November 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, Comments: 0

    In case you missed it, today we (and by we, I mean, The Taxpayers of the United States, acting against our will) bailed out the [...]

  • April Fools Day Is In April Right?
    Posted by on November 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm, Comments: 0

    First thing this morning, I read this, emphasis mine: (thanks to Clusterstock) Michael Alix has been named a senior vice president in the Bank Supervision [...]

  • It Shouldn’t Be That Hard To Understand
    Posted by on November 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm, Comments: 0

    I’ve tried to sit down and write a post about how absolutely asinine it is to try to maintain inflated home prices – which is [...]