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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

  • Wall St Needs Liability=Criminal punishment

    Credit default and naked default swaps were an unregulated market which led to 80- 90% of 62 trillion dolllar market. This according to the New York superintendent Dinallo's Congressional testimony Oct 14,2008. Wall Street shifted its activities to the unregulated market as less labor intensive, but also with potential for perverse ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by Usama3 on October 15, 2008

  • You think so?

    Real Estate and Food prices pushed up by NGOs? Well since only Afghan nationals are allowed to purchase real estate that is pretty difficult. Prices are being pushed up by drug selling commanders. And food prices are going up all over the world dear. If the NGOs did not buy the food for the poor it would never come to Afghanistan in the first ...
    Posted to Foreigners by jawadbek on September 23, 2008

  • Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1

    ''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
    Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008

  • Economic Liberalism to the Rescue?

    Economic liberalism basically calls for: deregulation, privatization, globalization, and reduced governance. While it may appeal to certain ideological purists, the actual application of these concepts have unforeseen, unintended, and negligently estimated consequences. I've spent much of my Sunday morning listening to explanations of the ...
    Posted to Politics by Usama2 on June 1, 2008