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This picture is much better blown up, but still, I like it - it was the view from the conference room where we had my panel discussion today about the blogs and their influence, and it's got a bit of a futureworld meets old Europe - which is very much Barcelona, and this conference (Personal ...
World
I've been wondering how long it would take before shareholders turned on the excessive costs of payouts. With a forecasted average salary of over $700,000 per Goldman worker, it's not surprising that they are being called out first. With a cost of business like that, they better be delivering ...
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John met someone promoting equality for the new EU cabinet but as I mentioned earlier, we need to do much better with promoting women. The current numbers are rightly called a crisis, whether you are looking at business or government. Shouldn't we expect more ? The majority of Americans are ...
World
Foreclosure Crisis
Hallelujah . Fisher suggested the only way of ensuring that such financial giants do not pose recurrent problems is by making them smaller. "This means finding ways not to live with 'em and getting on with developing the least disruptive way to have them divest those parts of the 'franchise,' ...
White House
Federal Reserve
It's a crazy day and John is having some internet connection challenges so pitch in and let everyone know what's happening.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer person. AP : South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison told The Associated Press he is ...
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Mark Sanford
Splintered and infighting ? Who could have imagined? Even more surprising is the claim that there is little management experience within the fractured group. It all sounded so dreamy a few short months ago. Disagreements over those issues have spawned personal and institutional rivalries, at ...
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Absolutely . Clearly there is a danger in politicizing Federal Reserve decisions but looking at how the Fed handled the bailout of AIG and Wall Street, it's difficult to see how much worse it could have been. To date, Congress or the White House (either the current or the former) have hardly ...
White House
Federal Reserve
John is in BCN and Joe has probably reached beautiful South Africa by now where they are heading into summer. Joelle and I arrived in Jo'burg around this time of the year back in 2002. After six months in and out of the country we hated to leave and only did so because our tickets were expiring. ...
World
I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Barcelona talking to an interesting English guy, Jon Worth, who, along with a small group of friends, just launched a campaign to push for more women on the European Commission. As Jon tells it, the European Commission is kind of like the Cabinet for the ...
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Maybe invading a country and partnering with George Bush wasn't such a great idea for Tony Blair after all. If he bring peace to the Middle East, maybe he deserves a second look but for now he's going to have to work a little harder at solving problems instead of creating them. The new EU ...
World
Sorry, but no thanks . If the question is really about feeding more people, vegetarian is a much better option. Somehow this sounds like something the meat industry is more interested in than anyone else. I don't care how much marketing you throw at it, there's little to like about this. Winston ...
Congress
Al Franken
Winston Churchill
Amazingly enough, everyone is on board with the biggest change in decades. The Republicans pushed the country to its limit with problem after problem and so now, even industry is calling for more regulation. If only Wall Street learned as quickly. Reuters : A U.S. Senate committee voted ...
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One of the worst stories ever written by AP . Depending what paragraph of the story you read, the US Postal Service either is, or isn't, shutting down the "write a letter to Santa" program, and letters to Santa either will, or won't, be shredded. I've just re-read this article ten times. It ...
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Internal Revenue Service
Via Greg Sargent : With Republicans hammering the Obama administration for trying suspected 9/11 terrorists in a New York court, a Democrat points out that in 2006, George W. Bush seemed to say outright that terrorists should be “tried in courts here in the United States.” There was no outcry at ...
White House
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
9/11
United States
After that stellar presidential run, Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided not to run for Governor of New York : It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the prospect of potentially facing Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who is quietly planning his own run for governor, may not have ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
General David Petraeus
David Axelrod
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Republican National Committee
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in Huffington Post : "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers. "I mean, he only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't anything to write home about. The public option is only available, which is the only way you manage ...
White House
Barack Obama
Health care
Rahm Emanuel
Huffington Post
The news never gets better when it comes to Larry Summers or Timmy Geithner. It's always about another TARP fiasco or whatever Wall Street wants. We're well past the point where Wall Street deserves one more cent. The call for change was missed with this duo as they continue the same old ...
White House
Timothy Geithner
Economic Meltdown
Foreclosure Crisis
Larry Summers
TARP
Oops. Something the propaganda organ of the Soviet Union might have done. I'm sure it was a simple oversight. Just like when Hannity did the same thing last week. ThinkProgress has the whole delicious story . John Amato is filing an FCC complaint. Media Matters offers us two photos to compare: ...
