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Target Black Friday 2009 Ads Leaked
These are only rumors because Target has not officially released its Black Friday sale ads but leaked sale items are secretly floating around the web and are hiding some very good deals. Target has said... 2009 Wall Street Bonuses: $140 Billion in Taxpayer Money
This past summer, angry tea baggers yelled, screamed and berated Democrat lawmakers over government spending on health care. There was also a protest in Washington D.C. over the taxpayer dollars being used to... Big crooks go for the billions
As economies age, more and more people 'stop productive working.' That is, they get some special privilege, some inside point of view, some conniving advantage. The latest numbers, for example, tell that almost... SATIRE: Goldman Sachs Internal Memo
This follows the news announced by the White House last Friday, that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Robert Hormats was appointed to the role of State Department's undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs. Read about it here, on NowPublic."July 16,...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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105 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
AIG bonuses four times higher than Originally MisRepresented
" The 2008 AIG bonus pool just keeps getting larger and larger. In a response to detailed questions from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the company has offered a third assessment of exactly how much it paid out in... 102 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Thanks to ACORN, It's A Different World
Written by Phil Gremillion, a man described as "a businessman, farmer, inventor and Cajun who lives in Lafayette (La.)," a commentary published today in The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette, La., follows perfectly on... Fox Business Network Anchor: Taxing AIG Bonuses = Sexual Abuse
Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell appeared on Fox News to make the case against the tax on AIG bonuses by comparing it to sexual abuse:"You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s... Gunning Down The Notorious A.I.G.
Shane Croft Windermere, FL "Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders" -Baltsar Gracian Ah, the good old U.S. of A. One nation, under God, indivisible..... A creator, carrier, and mother of so many great fortunes. As a people, we tend to... House Passes AIG Bonus Tax Bill
Update: The US House of Representatives votes today on a bill to tax those AIG bonuses at 90%, though such a retroactive tax would not stand up constitutional law. In that light, it's meant more as a gesture,...
created by Jordan Yerman | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago
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363 views | 21 recommendations | 3 comments
Unions Renegotiated Their Contracts, but AIG Executives Won't
Rep. Gary Peters (D-Michigan) attacked AIG for not renegotiating their “iron clad” contracts the same way the auto workers union (UAW) was forced to do during the recent car-maker bailouts. “In my... AIG CEO Requests Execs Give Back Half of Bonuses
Update: AIG CEO Edward Liddy has asked bonus recipients to give half of the money back. I don't imagine that this will pacify the public, and thus lawmakers must keep re-election prospects in mind when... 227 views | 36 recommendations | 4 comments
Bush's Ex-Press Secretary, Dana Perino, Defends AIG Bonuses
Reports over the weekend that bailed-out insurance giant AIG will be paying $165 million in bonuses to executives “in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year” have... Bailout Money for bonuses
Taxpayer bailout money made Government to own majority stakes in banks like Citi Bank, Bank of America, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, AIG and a few more. However the board members who have presided over these disastrous... ‘Obama’s Outrage’ Aimed at Punishing Achievers
Representative of the mainstream media, the front page of today's Chicago Sun-Times features a photo of an angry-looking President Barack Obama above the all-caps headline, OBAMA'S OUTRAGE. The headline, in turn,... Shades of Gordon Gekko, Financier Says "Greed is Good"
Using one of the most famous lines uttered by Michael Douglas' character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, a film about corporate greed and corporate raiding on Wall Street, Roy C. Smith...
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