BlackSwan06

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    Posted 2009-03-06 15:58:56 on Don’t Be Scared, Children

    "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"

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    Posted 2009-03-06 15:06:12 on Guess The Close

    6469

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    Posted 2009-03-06 12:36:54 on Wachovia Mans Up, We Throw Up

    Are there Ritz crackers involved? Because everything tastes better on a Ritz.

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    Posted 2009-03-05 22:30:23 on CNBC Makes Daily Show’s Shit List

    Santelli is pure astroturf, and his job is to perpetuate his own brand. That's it. I look forward to his actually concocting an original thought. @ Trojan - I concur. @ 134 - If anything, he went FROM Barry (very common) to Barack (not common) later in life, and Barry would have sold a lot better than Barack in certain parts of the US as he embarked on the political track... Speaking of name-changing, did you know that Bobby Jindal was not born Robert, but PIYUSH? If you want to accuse political figures of selective name dropping to avoid negative ethnic associations/hide ethnicity, you might start there.

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    Posted 2009-03-03 15:53:23 on The Obama Portfolio

    Whatever happened to TheBlacktoneGroupie and his $1.99 portfolio?

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    Posted 2009-03-03 12:54:29 on Breaking: Obama Called Equities Bottom

    The Lou Dobbs school of paraphrasing strikes again... always entertaining EP.

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    Posted 2009-02-24 16:34:07 on The New Noels

    @ 35 and @37 - I wouldn't crap on National Guardsmen if I were you, even the direct commissions. Just because he's with a 1) signal brigade or 2) a guard unit has no bearing on whether or not he'll be sitting in the Green Zone or not. BTW Direct Commission Officers generally have a mandatory service requirement prior to receiving a direct commmission; you can't just show up at the recruiter and two weeks later they make you an O-3, and the rank is generally dependent on the professional education level of the applicant (doctors, lawyers).

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    Posted 2009-02-24 16:09:32 on Northern Trust’s No-No

    @ 17 - that's Chad Ocho Cinco to his closest friends...

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    Posted 2009-02-19 15:50:24 on Movement From The Fixed Fortifications

    The side pocket sounds more like a suppository.

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    Posted 2009-02-19 15:39:53 on Ken Griffin Doesn’t Need You, Ken Griffin Doesn’t Need Any Of You!

    nice rugby reference.

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    Posted 2009-02-12 17:32:04 on We Thought It Was Absurd Too, But It Turns Out That Obama Really IS Going To Pay Your Mortgage

    Equity Private, your clip is borderline intellectually dishonest and belongs in the Lou Dobbs/Keith Olbermann school of Journalistic Integrity. Not having to worry about putting 1) gas in the tank and 2) paying the mortgage could very well have reflected her confidence that the economy would allow her to continue working at the job she currently holds, therefore alleviating her concern over her family and household obligations. Go dig up her credit history and W-2's for last year before using selective editing and base plays to racial sterotypes to prove your point. Come on... The issue of moral hazard was very clear without stooping to YouTube tactics. That being said, I am more than pained by what this plan is leaning towards, but until I see the thing, I'm not sure if it makes me sick to my stomach or induces projectile vomiting.

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    Posted 2009-02-12 15:39:14 on CDS Death Bill Introduced In The House

    My gut feeling: Grandstanding. It'll get hung up with amendments upon amendments upon amendments, and more amendments, debated until it becomes undebateable and gets put on the calendar to die.

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    Posted 2009-02-11 14:41:42 on Second Verse, Same As The First?

    well, something I've said several times in different places: The financial literacy of the average American is fairly poor. The financial literacy of the average congressman is fairly poor. They depend on their staffers to fan out and school up on the issues that their Representative needs to understand in time for that Representative to be able to talk about it. Staffers are generally policy wonks, not analyst-types. Thus, what you're seeing is the cumulative attempt of last-minute cramming to make sure that certain statements get on the Congressional Record and occasionally, just occasionally, a real question pops out. Did she just say "hist-er-onics" instead of histrionics?

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    Posted 2009-02-04 13:10:56 on Deathmatch: Whitney v. Obama

    @18 - W handed the mess over to O in the "I had it you got it" method of turnover. Blaming O is like blaming the pastor of a shotgun wedding for the bride being knocked up at the altar. All I know is that McCain wouldn't have done any better, and Palin would have spent all her time on Investopedia before trying to open her beak. @12 - Barbaric students generally come from barbaric parents who should have been sterilized.

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    Posted 2009-02-03 22:05:37 on No More Than The President Of The United States

    Fresh off the wire: "President Barack Obama plans to unveil a series of new pay curbs Wednesday, including limits to executive salaries. Among the new restrictions being considered is a cap on salaries for executives at companies that receive a substantial amount of government aid. Such a move would amount to an unprecedented effort to limit executive pay." Jeebus.

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    Posted 2009-02-03 21:42:21 on Should The Mackettes Stay Or Go Now?

    Run, Forrest, Run. And my further advice to the Big Mack Crew is from that cinematic tour-de-force, "Animal House", from the mouth of that fountain of knowledge, Bluto: "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily."

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    Posted 2009-02-03 18:36:33 on Today’s Boycott

    @Anal_yst - I think I'm going to use Tontine in a sentence tomorrow. Perhaps modify it. "Your portfolio reeks of tontinessence. Or better yet, "you think that Tontine-osity can be repaired?" I'm ashamed to say I seriously thought that portfolio was a joke. I still hope that it is. SIRI? Come on....

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    Posted 2009-02-03 11:38:36 on No, It’s Not You, It’s Me

    @5 - And I saw it at my last shop; the "Look Ma No Track Record" school of marketing. Toss in a few hypothetical return charts, some fancy bullet points, and voila! It's raining subscription forms!

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    Posted 2009-02-02 16:02:39 on Prompting Us To Wonder: “What’s The Crack Cocaine Of Anthropology?”

    Then what are farm subsidies? Methadone of the fly-over masses?

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    Posted 2009-02-02 13:46:44 on The Financial Community Reinvestment Act

    I look forward to EP's cogent, well-thought out counterproposal since everything I see looks like rehash of a discussion out of a freshman Economics study group. The devil is in the details of the execution of these loans, how tight the documentation is, criteria for qualification - one can be low-income and have decent credit. I've definitely seen the high-income $hitty credit varieties. Not all of those f'd up mortgage products went to the low-income folks. Check the real default stats on the CRA and ITIN loans, not the ones passed out through either left/right slanting blogs/sites.