Soros on the banking crisis: "
A deep recession is now inevitable and the possibility of a depression cannot be ruled out. When I predicted earlier this year that we were facing the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, I did not anticipate that conditions would deteriorate so badly." - Soros lays out some ideas about what can be done to fix the markets ... Planet money had another
nicely done piece on the debacle last Friday.
posted by specialk420
on Nov 10, 2008 -
79 comments
AestheticallyUnappealingBedfellowsFilter: "George Soros initiated holdings in Oil Equipment & Services company Halliburton Co.. His purchase prices were between $27.62 and $33.53, with an estimated average price of $31.3. The impact to his portfolio due to this purchase was 2.02%. His holdings was 1,999,450 shares as of 12/31/2006. Halliburton Co. closed today at $30.05." Maybe he's '
culture jamming'? Might raise some amusing ethical
conundra in any case.
posted by waxbanks
on Mar 1, 2007 -
53 comments
Republicans are threatening to revoke Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption. Not because of the
steroid scandals, or the numerous abuses of the monopoly to
shakedown cities for publicly financed stadiums.
No, the GOP is attacking baseball because
George Soros, a liberal, might buy a team and he would be a "polarizing figure."
Oh yeah,
Fred Malek, a non-polarizing, competing bidder is a GOP fundraiser and a aide who compiled a list of members of the "Jewish Cabal" at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Nixon.
This injection of politics into baseball seems
eerily familiar to me...
posted by hipnerd
on Jun 30, 2005 -
44 comments
The Apparat: George W. Bush's back-door political machine -- "It's anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, and is working to create a one-party America"
Consider this article from Media Transparency regarding how "hundreds of tax-exempt organizations of the far right have been exploiting the twilight zone of campaign and IRS regulations for three decades -- receiving billions of dollars in grants and contributions to wage ideo-political warfare for far-right ideas, causes, and Republican candidates."
Might it already be too late to stop this juggernaut?
posted by mooncrow
on Mar 19, 2004 -
34 comments
