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“It is very puzzling how the Republican Party can maintain so much party discipline and ...”

“The idea of a independent  Consumer Financial Protection Agency is gaining traction again as seen ...”

“The News is Wikipedia being used for Breaking News. Over the past few years Wikipedia ...”

“Tom Friedman at the NYTimes has an absolutely great post on the toxic nature ...”

“Bob Hebert has written an article, An Absence of Class, that officially puts the ...”

“UPDATE2: Washington Post calls decision a watershed, Android is delayed on China Mobile, etc. UPDATE: Google ...”

“UPDATE: Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not the Mensch the US seeks. Netanyahu declares ...”

“Today is the day when Senator Chris Dodd reveals his final package for Financial Reforms ...”

“Update: NYTimes reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu Offers Apology, but No Shift in Policy This blog ...”
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“Good and True History is important so that past mistakes are not repeated - or ...”

“I have an MBA friend, Mike, who is also a CFA-Chartered Financial Analyst whose ...”

“Here is a "Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Know what I mean, Know what I mean" ...”

“Just in case Messieurs Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Thomas , and " LaScalia" need a reminder, ...”

“The New York Times Opinionator Blog has a challenging posting by Stanley Fish on " ...”

“The US Health Care debate has turned on a curious combination of compexity and ...”

“Apple is leaving a lot of room to maneuver in the smartphone and tablets ...”

“CFA-Chartered Financial Analyst members have taken it on the chin for the past 3-4 years ...”

“Financial Reform in the US faces formidable pitfalls domestically with a Nope-A-Dope Republican Senate  invigorated ...”

“Steve Jobs has been dissing Adobe's Flash for the past 2-3 years for reasons public ...”

“One of the many problems on Wall Street and Institutional Financing worldwide is the Proprietary ...”

“IP-Intellectual Property and the Web is becoming ever more entangled. The China vs Google ...”

“"Stock Pickers Suckered" is the title of a very interesting article in the latest Economist. ...”

“There is a battle going on in the Senate over Financial Regulation - and one ...”

“In Frank Herberts great science fiction novel, Dune, the Fremen had the advantage that they ...”

“Ever since the Supreme Court made such a flawed decision on campaign finance, the issue ...”

“Forget the MSNBC commercial at the beginning, here is President Obama speaking with the House ...”

“The price for the iPad at $500 starter may be a watershed. This is the ...”

“After much speculation, Apple's iPad hit the Gadget Mindscape market with a thud. To say ...”
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“Slate has some excellent commentary and investigation on how the Supreme Court reached the ...”

“The Guardian and Financial Times in England have been covering the China vs Google story ...”

“Frank Rich of the NYTimes provides another update to this article in his opinion piece ...”

“John Roberts promised a gradualist Supreme Court - "just calling the balls and strikes". But ...”

“Slate's Big Money blog has a curiously titled story partly via the NYTimes ...”

“Here is the latest on the fast evolving  China vs Google story as it takes ...”

“As predicted by this blog the China vs Google issue has escalated dramatically and  the Chinese ...”
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“There is an interesting article in the Sports section of the New York Times. As ...”

“This One Has Legs is about stories that are just emerging on the news+web screens ...”

“One of the key enablers in the recent Chinese cyberattack on Google and about 20 ...”

“The Obama administration just got its wake up call. All this past weekend the various ...”

“One of the consistent arguments against curtailing large bonuses to executives and staff advanced by ...”

“Today the first of the bonus and pay packets made by the major, "Too Big ...”

“Watching the Congressional Financial Crisis Commission hearing under Congressman Peter Angelides the past two days ...”

“The alliteration of TeaParty Tempest suggests that all this disaffection is just some passing storm. ...”

“I remember when we used to play a game in our jaunty youth - Scott ...”

“There is a story in this month's Wired , Uranium is So Last Century— Enter ...”

“Motley Fool asks the question here and the evidence is compelling that IE is on ...”

“The NYTimes has one of those small, but seminal stories on the National Scene today ...”

“ABC - that is the Australian Broadcast Corporation has published a story in which BRIC ...”

“The NYTimes story tells the tale - When Exxon Mobil invests in shale gas to ...”

“Lloyd Blankfein is CEO of investment bank Goldman Sachs - and last Tuesday he did ...”
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“From the beginning of computing, hardware costs have dominated and shaped the nature of the ...”
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“Given the  report from the Wall Street Journal that the banks are bonusing themselves this ...”

“Thomas Friedman picks up the argument in the NYTimes recently that a lot of others ...”

“The reaction to Google's Chrome Frame has been most interesting. Often the IT trade press ...”

“If you had any doubts that Microsoft and Google are competing fulltime for the role ...”

“I thought my recent posting on the dithering by President Obama was a zinger - ...”

“September has been an unprecedented month of less from the Obama Administration for which Health ...”

“NYTimes guest columnist Stanley Fish has hit the nail pretty well on the head with ...”

“There has been a firestorm of commentary on Racism in America since the infamous Joe ...”

“One of the benefits of President George Washington's 110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior ...”

“Apple has built up an enviable reputation for innovation and excellence in its whole spectrum ...”

“To many, Wikipedia has the taint of being  a folk source, subject to all the ...”

“Reading is getting to be a battleground. First there is the continuing bickering over Google ...”

“Pfizer really has put itself behind the eight ball in new drug development. Now Pfizer ...”

“Give Microsoft executives full credit - they are nothing if not consistent. Everything turns on ...”

“The Economist has an article that argues that Big is Back as very large corporates ...”

“Apple is getting a stranglehold on the evolution of computing devices, particulary for consumers. iPod ...”

“Google Books efforts to scan "all the books fit to print" has had a stormy ...”

“Now that the Swiss government, the US Internal Revenue Service and the major Swiss bank, ...”

“The Big Fall ShootOut at the IT Corral Listen up folks, specially you Stock Investors looking ...”

“US Congressmen are fanning out across the USA to listen to their constituents. Bill Maher ...”

“There is a post on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo whose title tells the story ...”

“The NewScientist in its July 25,2009 issue has an essay by Dr. Terence Kealey, ...”

“The NYTimes   has done  a 3 page story on Mozilla and its most ...”
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“Paul Krugman at the New York Times is putting out some of the best policy ...”

“For a long time futurist have been predicting the transition from Mass Production to Mass ...”

“Nortel was once the biggest tech employer in Canada. It has benefited from billions of ...”

“I have been absolutely astounded by the spectacular rise in the number of Apps ...”
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“Business Week has a slide show on 25 projects in the energy and green technology ...”

“The NYTimes is featuring an article by Sarah Perez which asks so casually yet ...”

“In his NYTimes article, the Joy of Sachs, Paul Krugman underlines one of the fundamental ...”

“The situation is so dire on World  Climate Control, the old adage about Boiling Frogs ...”

“PBS has two distinguished and uniquely great news sources that the major networks simply cannot ...”

“The Financial Times of July 3 2009, has a most interesting article about the added ...”

“The Financial Times of Friday, July 3 2009 has a story about how a"rogue oil ...”
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“The Deal.com has a story about the Nature of Financial Reform in view of the ...”
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“I have said it before but it bears repeating - the best feed on who, ...”

“It is hard to understand, let alone cope with, the kid glove treatment that the ...”

“Judge Denny Chin certainly got the sentencing right - Madoff's crimes and motives were certainly ...”

“Kobe did it alone - brought the NBA Championship to LA as the lone and ...”

“The question confronting the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner,  and its financial regulators is ...”

“In the previous posting, the notion that the Obama Admin is seriously caving in ...”

“President Obama is being touted for a)eliciting opinions from all players in the policy room ...”

“Business Week has four excellent articles about the current economic trends that indicate the US ...”

“The first big skirmish between the once King of Software, Microsoft, and the Current TitleHolder, ...”
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“The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis - This book written back in 2003 has ...”

“"Recently we were uplifted when the president informed Chrysler’s secured creditors that they had agreed ...”

“One my greatest fears is that the North American Innovation Machine may be badly broken. ...”

“David Brooks of the NYTimes has said the notion of Financial Oligarchs is nonsense; rather ...”

“There is a compelling article in the Telegraph on Islamic Finance. The problem is Sharia ...”

“An MBA buddy and I have been chatting a lot about the lessons to be ...”

“The old adage “you get what you pay for” is getting a real workout as ...”

“Frank Rich at the NewYork Times has written a caustic yet timely piece on why ...”

“The NYTimes has a very instructive story on the rise of LED lights for the ...”

“ greed control. Why greed control ? Time after time reporters of the financial scene are telling us that unbridled greed ...”

“It is curious how two article on the Credit Crunch raise more clearly the issue ...”

“Currently Washington is being consumed and tortured by the controversy over President George Bush and ...”

“Chrysler has gone into bankruptcy - but not quietly. Every party took "shared sacrifices" - ...”

“Despite denials from Steve Jobs and interim CEO Tim Cook, Apple appears to be working ...”

“One of the reasons that the current  Financial Implosion was not bigger and more horrific ...”

“Some people ask why has free Open Source software got such a broad foothold in ...”

“"Junk Bonds Signal Revival of Credit" is the headline story in the Report on Business ...”

“I could not believe Jon Stewart's the Daily Show last night - Jon was engaging ...”

“What did PC Financial Insurance do ? Not really much in the general financial sweep ...”

“Paul Harvey just passed away earlier this year, and that is a pity because he ...”

“Barack Obama's major impact on the change in power and the US Presidency is not ...”

“After IBM, What Now for Sun? is the title of a good article at Business ...”

“See Apple's  latest moves on this Tipping Point here. Rapid developments in smartphones and the ...”

“In a previous posting, we have said that now more than ever before, durable, well ...”

“When one reads the Economist's Special Report on The Collapse of Manufacturing, Tom Friedman's book ...”

“Steady, reasonably-paid  jobs for your populace is the new Gold Standard valued by governments and ...”

“ The comment here is that recent presidents are crying wolf over "Emergency situations" in order ...”

“ George Will is chief political columnist at Newsweek, ABC TV's This Week commentator, ...”

“ Barack Obama is miles ahead of his previous two predecessors, George W Bush and ...”

“The Financial Times has some great video  interviews on the Financial Credit Crunch. The Future of ...”

“ Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks to Wall Street about the fact that financial reforms are ...”

“In mathematics QED Quod Est Demonstrandum is used at the end of a proof. It  ...”

“This last weekend, SNL-Saturday Night Live had a great skit lampooning US Treasury Secretary Timothy ...”

“The movies Taken and International hint at raw and unchecked violence spinning out of control ...”

“The New York Times is sponsoring on its website a very interesting, challenging and hoefully ...”

“Daunting task.That is the consensus on what faces Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mideast ...”

“Portfolio Magazine has been following the financial swanfall with some salient reporting. One of the ...”

“No time is a good time for incompetence but it appears even under Obama incompetence ...”

“Many a friend has expressed the sentiment that now that Bush is gone things can ...”

“Because Obama's Inaugural Speech  didn't have the uplifting rhetoric of his 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote ...”

“Israel is not the only one  into an end game of Appartheid. I have heard ...”

“As a "foreign" observer I was struck by two things in the inaugural address: First, the ...”

“Gail Collins in the NYTimes says it succinctly - He's Leaving. Really. But the problem ...”

“There appears to be a Rubicon on Regime Change that has been made by not ...”

“China has a number of deals going on with its people, the US and the ...”

“Tom Friedman has written 3 good books on the MidEast and has a command of ...”

“The Bush Administration seems bound and determined to prove its incompetence right to the very end ...”

“Israel's Government is currently using the argument that Hamas in Gaza are entrenched and unrelenting ...”

“I hate to pat myself on the back ... but 5 days after I called ...”

“I have friends both very pro and con Obama who have expressed tinges of buyers ...”

“According to a Jerusalem Post Survey the mission of the  Israelis in its Gaza air strikes ...”
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“Blunderbus - n, from Dutch Donderbus or Thunder gun means a muzzle loading shotgun intended ...”

“Public Trust, like the air we breathe, is a social commons. No one party can ...”

“Thank you sweet Louise, Story that is ... at the NYTimes who has written a ...”

“CBC News likes to cultivate the image of "telling it like it is". "Just the ...”

“"WE SAY IT LIKE IT IS" No smal motto for a 2008 Pulitzer prize-winning business newspaper ...”

“The new anchor, David Gregory at Meet the Press, is interviewing Secretary of State Condeleeza ...”

“Here is a story ostensibly about something else but really that indicates there will be ...”

“In mathematics QED Quod Est Demonstrandum is used at the end of a proof. It  ...”

“This is a tongue in cheek "PRAISE" for the Economist story on the Failure of ...”

“The US is beginning to see the consequences of having a Failed State or 5 ...”

“ Governor Rod Blagojevich provided all the US political humorists a recharging since the ...”

“The NYTimes has a story on the Bernard Madoff $50Billion Ponzi scheme that has wreaked ...”
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“What is a Failed State?  Wikipedia has a good starting definition which is worth repeating ...”

“I have been waiting for Barrons, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune to clarify the issue ...”

“Given our previous post it is instructive to consider that even dogs can sense fair ...”

“LaPopessa  along with Buckarooskidoo have a blog Make it Stop! Make it Stop! that is ...”

“The NYTimes has an excellent story on the change that is coming to Wall Street, ...”

“One of the fundamental problems confronting the new Obama administration is that the flat world ...”

“The following story in the NYTimes illustrates in detail how stubbornly infectious and poisoning the ...”

“Business Week is describing how the people who brought you the Financial Meltdown are now ...”

“If the article at the New York Times about GM's shaky future is right, the ...”

“There is a New York Times article - no, post mortem, on Citibank that is ...”

“Frank Partnoy at the Daily Beast has written an encomium( meaning lavish  praise of ...”
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“The question that gets asked everyday and of every Tom, Dick, and Henry Blodget Financial ...”

“The NYTimes has a story today that Barack Obama has finally been declared the winner ...”

“The World Finance industry and especially the Wall Street Branch has  been able to fend ...”

“There is a news item at the NYTimes  that confirms in no uncertain terms what ...”

“In a daring but also partisan fear-laden column, Frank Rich advances the notion that Sarah ...”
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“The Media appear to be working overtime to earn the hated "liberal" or "recklessly biased" ...”

“Stephen Colbert's comedy show won the Emmy award this past week for writing. And this ...”

“The Presidential Debates were proof positive that both candidates are hopelessly caught up in "PCS-Polically ...”

“One would hardly know based on the coverage in the Press and on TV -  ...”

“The advisories on regulation of the Wall Street seem to be of the "deeply vested ...”

“Since the likliehood of the US electorate being hoodwinked a third time in Presidential elections ...”

“Thanks heavens that Congress, Democratic Senator Chris Dowd  and Republican SenatorRichard Shelby, have taken a ...”
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“The day after assesments of the Wall Street Fix are not sanguine. The essence of ...”

“The deal is not done yet, but Bernanke and Paulson (SEC Chairman Cox seems to ...”
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“The article has a tinge of shadenfreude and reads like a clever Steven Colbert rant, ...”

“I have been arguing in this column that Executive pay has no correlation with the ...”

“It appeared that with the refusal of FedAid to Lehman and the shotgun wedding of ...”

“There is no doubt in my mind that Maureen Dowd, OpEd columnist for the New ...”

“In a significant political opinion, NYTimes  columnist David Brooks acknowledges what was manifest - Sarah ...”

“Before the US Presidential Elections become the victim of the game of who can ...”

“Two days ago I raised the question of whether US Secretary Paulson and the Treasury ...”

“Up until recently, the Financial Community has been spurning participating in a solution to the ...”

“There is a TV show that a lot of friends are trying to get me ...”

“I have been arguing here that there is a Capital Investment Crisis in the US ...”
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“Even T.Boone Pickens, oilman and financier of the Swiftboats Smear campaign against Presidential candidate John ...”

“There have been some interesting business news items recently.  In the Thursday, August 14th Financial ...”

“I have promised to feature some venture capitalists who are taking real risks and creating ...”

“I rarely agree with Paul Krugman's economic policy; but his placement of the center of ...”

“It bears repeating that American capitalism is at a crossroads. There is a coterie of ...”

“The Economist has in its July 26th issue, the first of two articles on Discontent ...”

“As an alternative RPEM-Rigged Perpetual Earnings Machinations being foisted on North American financial markets by ...”

“This is the Cover story at Business Week this July end - one year after ...”

“This article in the NYTimes shows that Greed is still running rampant on ...”

“On the Jon Stewart Daily Show, Jon consistently gets laughs by referring to the Still ...”

“There are some rather heated arguments by Economists about the desirability of monopolies - and ...”

“Jon Stewart on the Daily Show gets laughs by referring to Still the President. But ...”

“In a June 18th 2008 story, Heather Scoffield of the Toronto Globe and Mail is ...”

“The Canadian Supreme Court ruled against Bell Canada Enterprise-BCE bondholders last Friday. It was ...”

“The Catholic Church has published a list of 7 new mortal sins - Now I ...”

“Medicine is under siege in the US. 1)Over 40 million Americans do not have Health ...”

“I was just investigating the Ontario governments decision to go Nuclear to the tune of ...”

“As Barack Obama reacts with his own website to counter the ever growing smear ...”

“This is a relevant question given the following books that bear witness and testament to ...”

“The Toronto Globe and Mail prides itself as "Canada National Newspaper" and as one editor ...”

“I have nothing against the rich that a cool swig of a fifth couldn't deal ...”

“In our previous post, Doing the Troops Wrong, I pointedout how "born-again  fiscal conservative only ...”

“How can Barack Obama a)lose in Kentucky and West Virginia by about 30% points to ...”

“The following is a must read column by Bob Herbert of the New York Times. ...”

“Lately in America, Success has been breeding Failure. CEO's have been hyper-compensated including risk-less ...”

“Success Breeds Failure is the title of Paul Krugman column in the NYTimes. It ...”

“The title of this post is also the title of a column by Tom ...”

“The depth of the injury that Wall Street Greed has done to the US Economy ...”

“As proof that the notions that Private Equity, Hedge Funds and the Investment Banks are ...”

“"baseball" is doing a major cover-up on its doping problems. On Friday, baseball and its players ...”

“Windows Vista is on life support. It is dying and will be replaced as soon ...”

“On the March 30th ABC Sunday news program This Week with George Stephanopoulos I saw ...”

“The Democratic party over the weekend discovered that the Clinton's a) have no chance to ...”

“All through the debacle on Wall Street, the issue of Moral Hazard has been ...”

“Now that New York has replaced one wife cheating governor with another, the prosecution ...”

“Our continuing series on the credit crunch gripping US financial markets in which key Financial ...”

“The NYTimes which broke the Eliot Spitzer story is doing  wrap up coverage here. What ...”

“From the Eliot Spitzer case there are five other major ramifications: 1)The NYTimes certainly cannot ...”

“Last night on David Letterman Tonight Show David crossed the line. Apparently if you intimate ...”

“Andy Rooney has just done a tongue and cheek 60 Minutes piece on why anyone ...”

“Vendetta: 1. A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying ...”

“There was extensive coverage of the Eliot Spitzer case on CBC Newsworld today. Nancy Wilson ...”

“The most popular story on the NYTimes email list this weekend is about the topic ...”

“William F Buckley Jr. died this past month at the age of 82. Buckley was ...”

“It is remarkable that in the Western Developed countries that are looking for innovation to ...”

“I have been very careful not to commit to a Democrat Presidential candidate - I ...”

“Here is a searing example of how divisive religion has become in the politics of ...”

“In an article about how important the Bubble Economy has become for  US Industry, Eric ...”

“Republicans are beginning to reap what they have sewn - some of the most divisive ...”

“Greedy Guts Itself has had widespread consequences - collateral damage that was  either not anticipated ...”

“It is stark and unrelenting. Call it collateral damage. Greek tragedy. Yet like Confessions of ...”

“Everytime I hear George W. Bush say the words "bringing Democracy to the world" I ...”

“The Financial Investment community should be reasonably careful about its image of late - after ...”

“I have been looking for some good Presidential Primary Election dashboards. At first I gave ...”

“In our piece in this blog  on Billary or Obama ,  I advance the notion ...”

“The Democrats have a tough choice coming up beyond Super Tuesday. Will it be Billary ...”

“In my Greedy Guts Itself series of articles here I have been arguing that ...”

“The results of the South Carolina primary seems to indicate that voters have repudiated BillnHill ...”

“The Toronto Star's Saturday January 26th, 2008 Business section (page B3) has a couple of ...”

“BillClinton over the past 2-4 years had built up a stellar reputation for statesmanship and  ...”

“Well Greed Guts are now into round 4 of the debacle - the Tag Team ...”

“The ill-fated Iraq incursion and subsequent fiasco may be the source of more widespread problems ...”

“I am a hopeless  Detroit Lions football fan. This tortured allegiance goes way back to ...”

“Globalization and widening income inequality/disparity in the US appear to be driving events in ...”

“Bank of America is buying Countrywide Financial - chief instigators of the subprime mess that ...”

“The Fed is to the rescue again of supposedly the economy in general but some ...”

“Flash Paper is technology by Adobe by way of Macromedia, it puts eBooks to shame. ...”

“In Sweeny Todd fashion the Financial industry has chosen, on first blush, a rather unexpected ...”

“The upcoming US election has been predicated on two major issues: the Iraq War and ...”

“The depth of Greedy Gutting Itself is beginning to emerge. Paul Krugman at the NYTIMES ...”

“ Here is a bit of widgetry available for free from Yahoo (caution they watch what ...”

“In our initial Greedy article, I have argued that Financial Institutions have largely put aside ...”

“For the past 7-8 months Hillary Clinton has been running a masterful presidential campaign and ...”

“Beijing has been lecturing Western governments on their support for exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai ...”

“In our observation on Top Management Awry we have posited that IT-Information Technology is simply ...”

“When the Wall Street Journal picks up the story on income inequality, you know the ...”

“In the Business section of the Toronto Star of October 6th 2007, there is coverage ...”

“There came a moment in the USA vs Brazil semi-final game in the 2007 Womens ...”

“Like all sports football craves more goals and bigger scores in its games. At the ...”

“Its beginning to dawn on Hockey commentators in Canada that the league has done a ...”