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SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dave

Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty” seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading →

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SELL-OFFS & SELL-OUTS

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dave

”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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HOUSES OF CARDS

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dave

”In a series of damaging emails released yesterday, Tourre also compared the products to a “Frankenstein” monster that had “turned against his own inventor”. Other emails that emerged yesterday showed Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s chief executive, boasting about the money the bank … Continue reading →

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LIKE PULLING TEETH

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dave

”That there is a gigantic combination of the money dealers, a powerful international trust of usurers, asserting a superiority above all jurisdictions, and having for its servants the so-called statesmen and potentates of various nations, who willingly register the decrees … Continue reading →

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ANXIETY AS SHARP AS A TOOTHPICK

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dave

What me worry?The Beats, the banks, the bulls and the bears. That the world might suddenly end is not a new anxiety, but an eternally recurring old anxiety that is continually renewed. The testimony of Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman-Sachs … Continue reading →

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SEVENTH WARD BEGGARS

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Dave

However whatever what one may conclude about the dubious ethics of Goldman-Sachs,CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s appearance among lawmakers on Capitol Hill was at least long on entertainment as was his entire troupe of well rehearsed players as seen by their choreographed … Continue reading →

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Who Moved The Cheese.

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Dave

In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading →