Posts Tagged ‘financial crisis’
Fake Tim Geithner on Saturday Night Live
Posted: 10 March 2009 in Current eventsTags: credit crunch, financial crisis
The Economic Crisis with background music
Posted: 27 February 2009 in Current eventsTags: financial crisis
You've got to be kidding: strikes in France
Posted: 30 January 2009 in Current eventsTags: financial crisis
In case you have not been following the news in France, let me update you. The workers are on strike. Excerpt from The Guardian (which happens to be my favorite newspaper): More than one million French workers downed tools yesterday in the first general strike to hit a major industrialised nation since the start of [...]
I agree with Barry Ritholtz: bad bank idea is stupid
Posted: 29 January 2009 in Current eventsTags: financial crisis
Barry Ritholtz who writes the blog ” The Big Picture” was on CNBC Fast Money to argue that the current “bad bank” idea that the Treasury is considering, is a terrible solution. Barry says the government should: stop interfering with the markets; nationalize the banks; wipe out the debt, fire the management, wipe out the [...]
Banking girlfriends find solace in support group
Posted: 28 January 2009 in Current eventsTags: financial crisis
Girlfriends, mistresses and wives of fallen bankers can now find solace in a support group to lament the end of shopping sprees at Tiffany’s: New York’s Dating a Banker Anonymous (DABA) “is a safe place where women can come together — free from the scrutiny of feminists — and share their tearful tales of how [...]