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  • Re: Are Madoff and his frauding cohearts Financial Terrorists?

    I wanted to revive this thread for the sake of confronting the dire consequences of the global financial crises. Americans, in my opinion, lack the ETHICAL standards to adequately tackle the gravity of the financial crisis CAUSED BY AMERICANS. How many folks know somebody who has lost perhaps millions, and they are just average folks: working ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on February 2, 2009

  • Meltdown: My Analysis

    First, I would like to commend my sometimes Democrat sparing partner on Slate, degsme, for pushing me into taking off my Conservative hat long enough to put this together…thanks Degs. Then I will apologize for the length, bad grammar and style that may irritate some. This is a complex topic and this is only my analysis as to how we got to where we ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by MaxAmoeba on October 12, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • 700 Billion No Way Today!

    The most experienced and well educated people at the top levels of these companies got us into this mess. Why then should we expect them to get us out of this mess. Take every CEO and board of directors of these companies and hold them accountable. Many have excess compensation to begin with, stock options, bonus and golden parachutes, to the ...
    Posted to Explainer by haveittodayray on September 24, 2008

  • Very interesting relationships over time

    The comparison of Marshal Plan costs was expecially striking, considering that the price adjusted cost of the Marshal Plan was only 1/7 the cost when the adjustment was based on % of GDP. I had not been aware that % GDP and price deflated figures over that time diverged so significantly - perhaps that would be a good topic to explore in ...
    Posted to Explainer by Jim Pivonka on September 24, 2008