Tag: portugal
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markets go wild after imf head kahn arrested for sexual assault
from washington post: A New York criminal court judge denied bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged with attempting to rape a housekeeper at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn, also charged with a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment, made his first courtroom appearance after being pulled…
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geopolitiks/warwhores: pick up the gun
video: obama supplying heavy weapons to libyan insurgents* why is the federal reserve propping up the bank of libya?* over 100 killed in quran burning protests in afghanistan* video: koran burning prompts ‘days of rage’* will libya stalemate force US out of its back-seat role?* obama & paul on libya, clinton on syria: fact check*…
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Killing JPMorgan With Silver Bullets
Mike Krieger and Max Keiser have an idea for attacking the weak underbelly of the seemingly invincible too big to fail banks: If everyone buys just 1 ounce of silver, it will force JP Morgan to cover its short positions, and drive it out of business.
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Econocrash: Fortune, Fail & The Fed + Geopolitiks Update
In an internal e-mail released Saturday, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein wrote in November 2007 that the firm “didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,” but “made more than we lost” by betting against the U.S. housing market.