Tag Archives: John Paulson

greener pastures

Let the exodus begin.There is no way to really stop it as like water will always find the crack to seep through. Likely, the only answer is just to engage in a sort of corporate excommunication. The power and stench … Continue reading

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romney care: rappin’ with Mitt

Of all things its Milton Friedman’s birthday today. He would have been a hundred years old. One quote I like from him, so pertinent in the election campaign that succinctly wraps this whole electoral exercise into one piss pot of … Continue reading

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heavy wadders

Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading

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WMD: cook the books

Leveraged exchange traded funds or ETF’s….These financiers. Morbidly earthbound figures, weighed down by the heavy change in their pockets. Without that primitive anchor of coin rooting them to the soil, they would float away into a void, a kind of … Continue reading

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threw it all away

There is a business expression that you should only lose in the stock market what you can afford to lose; like this play money is gravy for amusement. The story of Sino-Forest, a Chinese company, an alleged forest resource company … Continue reading

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bastille month or regime change

” He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch” ….There is little direct proof of this quote attributed to by Roosevelt on the subject of Anastasio Somoza…Some forty years later, CIA chief William … Continue reading

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ZOMBIE BANKS, BUBBLE BATHS & EPITAPHS

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun; In the fight that followed He laid that deputy down. Then he took to the trees and timber To live a life of shame; Every crime in Oklahoma … Continue reading

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SELL-OFFS & SELL-OUTS

”In an interesting side note to the much more publicized businesses involving John Paulson, Greece, and whatever else Goldman is currently getting tarred and feathered for, the bank was quietly slapped on the wrist by the SEC for violations related … Continue reading

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