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By Bcoffin, Bcoffin |
October 25, 2010
With just over a week left until mid-term elections, races for the many governorships and Congressional seats at stake are kicking into high gear. In ...
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By Steve Piontek |
February 3, 2010
By this time we all know how very very difficult it is to get anything done in the U.S. Senate, so it is not surprising ...
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By Steve Piontek |
January 21, 2010
I know you are probably getting tons of advice from all corners about what you should do now in the aftermath of the upset election ...
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By Steve Piontek |
December 21, 2009
My blood started boiling as I read a Dec. 15 article in the New York Times coming in to work about how executives of three large banks—Goldman ...
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By Steve Piontek |
November 23, 2009
As if Goldman Sachs did not already have enough image problems as the biggest pig at the Wall Street trough, it is now the most ...
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By Steve Piontek |
October 29, 2009
Here we are in November already, well past the first-year anniversary of the Panic of 2008, and any heat, not to mention action, on financial ...
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By Steve Piontek |
September 22, 2009
I have to admit I don’t know any sheep farmers, but even I know that it’s not customary for these folks to ask the wolf ...
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By Steve Piontek |
September 8, 2009
The headline above describes how I feel about the glimmers of “evidence” being put forth by some economists and commentators that the Great Recession is ...
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By Steve Piontek |
August 3, 2009
The attention span of the American public-never great to begin with unless a story has to do with the death or scandal of a celebrity ...
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By Steve Piontek |
May 26, 2009
One of the indelible scenes in literature, and one aided immeasurably by George Cruikshank's illustration, is of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist in the workhouse going ...