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Whole World in Meltdown
ALARMISIM is not to be encouraged, sending mighty palpitations through populations as is its wont. But the opposite, which might be termed the Ostrich Syndrome, might even prove worse. (In folklore, the ostrich, when fearful, is supposed, if sand is thereabouts, to sink its head in it, presumably supposing this renders it invisible! ALARMISIM is not to be encouraged, sending mighty palpitations through populations as is its wont. But the opposite, which might be te... more
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Pain on Main Street
ANP: Bailout for Wall Street, but nothing yet for homeowners on the verge of foreclosure.
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Change of Status for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Sunday it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley - to change their status to bank holding companies.
The Fed announced that it had approved the request of the two investment banks. The change in status will allow them to create commercial banks that will be able to take deposits, bolstering the resources of both institutions.
The change continued the biggest restructuring on Wall Street since the Great Depression.
The request for the change to bank holding companies was granted by a unanimous vote of the Fed's board of governors during a late Sunday meeting in Washington.
The change of status means both companies will come under the direct regulation of the Federal Reserve, which regulates the nation's bank holding companies. The banking subsidiaries of the two institutions will face the stricter regulations that commercial banks are required to meet. Previously, the primary regulator for Goldman and Morgan Stanley was the Securities and Exchange Commission....
...more of the story at link...
So, two companies that were, more or less, founded by the same names that founded the Federal Reserve come back under control of...the Federal Reserve? They shovel out billions for these other companies, which only has more debt attached to the money handout, then just announce a 'change of status' for these two? That just seems a little odd... WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Sunday it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks - Goldma... more -
More for Less
Two literate men called Martin and Alfred who have been living over the past few years from the excessive waste generated by other people and supermarkets.In a way they have chosen to go against the societal norm of having steady, paid jobs and yet survive comfortably by not participating in the process of earning money and adding to the burden of existing over-consumption.
As they put it 'being content to live off less' .
They will in the film take this hard stand of living on just what you need to the next level.By walking around London for 7 days and being able to find enough from people/markets to live off it. Its survival extreme! Two literate men called Martin and Alfred who have been living over the past few years from the excessive waste generated by other peo... more -
Snooky Serna does a Britney
Snooky Serna does a Britney by changing her hairstyle to that former Britney Spears stunt of having a bald look. Snooky Serna said she wanted the "skinhead" do, "For a change." Snooky Serna does a Britney by changing her hairstyle to that former Britney Spears stunt of having a bald look. Snooky Serna said she... more
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Top 10 angry on-camera meltdowns
It's already been an exciting week for accidental on-air cursing, with New York broadcast institution Sue Simmons interrupting NBC's Medium to ask what the F*ck New York is doing, but Sue and Bill O'Reilly just left us wanting more. So video guru Richard Blakeley (who's explored reportorial bloopers before) collected ten of our very favorite meltdowns by people whose job it is to not curse on TV.
Some of these went out live, some were stolen from satellite feeds, but they're all golden. From Jim Ryan telling Dick Oliver that he'll explain how to be a reporter later to broadcast legend Bill Plante throwing a tantrum at the White House to vintage Sam Donaldson and Leslie Stahl, it's a cavalcade of rage and frustration. Like life. It's already been an exciting week for accidental on-air cursing, with New York broadcast institution Sue Simmons interrupting NB... more -
Antarctica is Gone
A very sizeable chunk of ice has begun to break away from Antarctica.
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Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses
"A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk.
Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 220-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica.
British scientist David Vaughan says it's the result of global warming.
The rest of the Connecticut-sized ice shelf is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice and scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995."
They've corrected the size to 7 times the size of Manhattan. That's still pretty big if ya ask me, no?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnjYmtmAnaPQ4YWKA6Wp... "A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk. ... more -
Market Meltdown
You think you know what you're doing? YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!! NO IDEA!! NO! IDEA!
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Paula Abdul Has a Bratz Meltdown
Sure it's a couple weeks old, but Paula Abdul + Meltdown + Bratz = COMEDY GOLD!!!
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