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Chicago is a slightly more sophisticated New York (lest you forget, staten island), with better sports teams, lower rents, and more robust financial institutions. Anyway, isn't girl from Chicago, where is she on this?
@ 3:16: Why exactly is it that the president is supposed to be held to a higher standard? I never really understood that.
Its too late to hedge now, geniuses. The time to hedge was when Oil was at $10 a barrel. The real problem is that there is too much competition in the industry so they can't pass through the costs to their customers effectively. That should be the real question you're asking: why are there still so many airlines? The answer is that the government and AIG and GE keep bailing them out with cheap airline leases and subsidies. The government because, they're retarded, and AIG and GE because they make a mint by charging high financing fees to customers with few other options.
It wasn't a mistake in that it was accidentally included, but it was a mistake in that it took all incentive away for Bear shareholder's to approve the deal. In that sense it was a loophole. @Dave Chappelle, its funny that you say that "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good narrative." applies to those who want to get out of Iraq and not those who got us into it in the first place....
As I said the other day Icahn is Ivan Boesky with better lawyers. Anyway, if Rup really wanted Obama to win he'd have Ailes call the dogs off over at Fix Noise.
I'm quite sure Bess meant Mono not Mano, Mono y bicicleta makes perfect sense.
Shoulda gone with "when mookses fail"
I'm no fan of Waters, my inclination would be in crease gasoline taxes to remove our dependence on foreign oil. Though i do think the lack of new US refineries is a boondoggle. I certainly don't agree with nationalizing anything.... well medicine, but that's because i think people have a right to health care but not to cheap gasoline. Now, is anyone working on the AB InBev defense? Why don't you guys just do a hostile counter offer for InBev, their market cap is only like $7 billion more than BUD's. Warren, friend of the Busch family, would happily make nice with the financing to put together another Wrigley-Mars style transaction in the beverage space. Just a thought.
east egg was Great Neck
Are you sure those aren't the '07 numbers? P.S. Chipwich
@1:18: What I mean to say is that, Iran is a legitimate threat to Isreal, but Isreal has a nuclear deterrent. @Anal_yst: I really hope McCain puts "the mormon" on the ticket. He's an excellent businessman, though. But he has no consistent identifiable values and the mormon thing will really suppress christian conservative turn out. @1:18: "McCain was in Vietnam at the time, so I think he knows the consequences of staying there." Why? I was in a Ford assembly plant once, doesn't mean I can build a Taurus? And the works in the plant are there everyday and that doesn't mean they can run the place. I don't think McCain is wrong in his foreign policy due to lack of incentive. I think his entire world view is wrong. I believe in the walk softly and carry a big stick approach. McCain believes the US can beat everyone else in the world into submission. By isolating and threating countries, you hurt them, but you also lose all leverage you have over them. The goal is to bring them into the fold of other nations, through what ever means are available to achieve you desired result. McCain thinks we could have "won" in vietnam. HELLO we did WIN! we have normalized trade relations with vietnam, they've opened their economy, communism is on the wane. But McCain's binary vision of winning and losing causes him to lose track of what is actually best for this nation, because he wants to "win", "achieve the mission", "complete the objective". I assume this is a product of his training as a fighter pilot. But whatever the cause its a terrible trait for a President. "That's the problem with the Obamamaniacs: They're zealots and just try to shout down opposition." I support Hillary Clinton
@8:53: Better question is why should women suffer so that banks can meet their quota of meat-head frat boys who regenerate in banks year after year solely based on their brohiems gettin their backs, bro.
Icahn Friend Says Financier Could Push For Google Deal
@1:23 Wrong, we all know the game 1-2 is referring to ends up with everyone getting exactly what they are aiming for on the night in question, and then frantic calls to planned parent hood in the immediate future. Yahoo can't get a little bit pregnant, with a deal "just for search". Once they're in bed with the beastmaster, THEY'RE IN BED WITH THE BEASTMASTER
1-2 the "market for lemons" scenario doesn't apply here (assuming all laid off Bear employee must continue to work) since they have no ability to with hold their service from the market they will be forced to take whatever price the market will bear for their services. Further still, since JP Morgan isn't going to be hiring back high quality employees unable to find other offers with a satisfactory salary, there's no mechanism for low quality employee to drive high quality employee from the market.
Uh, the notion that the Swiss could have defended switzerland from the Germans is completely ludicrous and transparently swiss propaganda designed to bolster the the morale of their people. While on paper the arguments hold some for the mental masturbatory purposes of those here, the reality was far more harsh. The same people that say the Germans would not have been able to penetrate Swiss mountain passes are those who deemed the maginot line impregnable. In the face of overwhelming superiority in man power and material there was little to no hope for the Swiss. If France had decided they wanted to invade Switzerland its unlikely the swiss could have stopped them let alone, stop Germany. While EP argues that guerrilla warfare would have prevented a German occupation, such tactics are far less effective against a civilization willing to inflict genocide on its opponents. In total war where the population is already being killed, hiding among said populace is no longer nearly as successful a defensive strategy. Now here's a really interesting question EP. I've always had the thought had Germany and the Japanese coordinated even a Japanese faint at Siberia during Barbarossa then Germans could have knocked the Russians out. While Hitler's refusal to equip his soldier's with proper winter gear didn't help the German cause it was really the arrival of the Siberian troops outside of Moscow that doomed the Germans in the winter of 41-42. All that was needed to hold the those troops in the east was a credible japanese threat. Knock out the russians and then Overlord gets rolled back into the channel and the Germans hold the continent.
Epicurean Dealmaker, 1-2, Equity Road Apple I call bullshit on these so called "points" with the exception of the aformentioned high functioning autistics, these jobs all require exactly the same skill set, ie: kissing your bosses ass. Whether you find yourself as an associate in i-banking, PE, a hedge fund, OR a middle manager at Ford Motor Co your role consists of smiling while your boss takes credit for all of your work and you try to keep the shit to shoe level. Corporate America is a giant cluster fuck and the only reason people go into finance is so that they have to take it up the ass for a shorter period of time before they can tell everyone else to go fuck themselves. If you're starting off as Stevie Cohen then you already have enough money that you shouldn't be wasting your time working anyway. Most people I know go into banking because they want to *become* Stevie Cohen, only to realize that their boss has a very odd gleam in their eye and may or may not be slipping female hormones into the redbull. So the only question to ask yourself is how exactly you'd like to have your shit pushed in. Slow and steady over 40 years or hard and fast at the beginning of your career?
Wait a minute back it up a second, most people on the street would be considered asshole if they worked in any other business. A more poignant question is how do you separate your own priorities from the that of your boss when your advancement becomes dependent upon pleasing the powers that be, which it always is. Then how do you avoid being bent over and having your shit pushed in, if anyone has an answer I'm all ears, it'd be useful to know. Besides, that he's entirely right, all winners are assholes, though all assholes aren't winners.
@ girl: While I am a sometimes a proponent of intervention in the free markets by the long arm of the government. In the matter at, ahem, hand, there shall be no dispensation for government interference. Let the free markets provide an environment in which every bid is met with an offer. Lest, you protest too much might I suggest you rewatch your (plausible) favorite movie, Pretty Woman. I rest my case.
Did anyone see John Adams last night? I didn't realize that fucker Talleyrand dicked over the US the same way he dicked over the Emperor. What a peace of shit he was, its no surprise he palled around with the likes of Aaron Bur. On separate note, Abagail Adams was a speculator in US Government debt buying up war bonds from citizenry, creating liquidity for them and a significant profit for herself when once Hamilton was able to organize the nation's finances. I'm suprised we haven't heard from EP on this note as she's an ameteur historian and probably (predictably) thinks of herself as a latter day Abagail Adams.
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