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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/12/links-121808-and-happy-birthday-to-this.html#comment-29795</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FEATURE-Madoff scandal stuns Palm Beach Jewish community&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This article goes from financial hurt to enabling anti-semitic feelings shezzz.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKN1840830420081219&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Skippy</description>
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<p>This article goes from financial hurt to enabling anti-semitic feelings shezzz.</p>
<p><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKN1840830420081219" rel="nofollow">http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKN1840830420081219</a></p>
<p>Skippy</p>
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		<title>By: DanyBoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>DanyBoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Outstanding conclusion stated sardonically! Good read:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;FED Unleashes Greatest Bubble of all.&lt;br/&gt;-John Kemp&lt;br/&gt;Reuters&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/12/17/fed-unleashes-greatest-bubble-of-all/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;Bizarrely, Bernanke and Co are in fact inviting investors to bet the policy will fail, the economy will remain mired in slump for a long period, deflation will occur and interest rates will remain on the floor, as Japan’s have done since the 1990s.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buyers of real estate and subprime securities have recently been lampooned for foolishly overpaying at the top of the market. Bernanke and Co are gambling memories will prove short and investors will prove just as eager to pay top prices for long-term government and private debt even though the downside is large.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Let us have one last bubble, and when it collapses, we promise not to do any more in future…honest.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outstanding conclusion stated sardonically! Good read:</p>
<p>FED Unleashes Greatest Bubble of all.<br />-John Kemp<br />Reuters</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/12/17/fed-unleashes-greatest-bubble-of-all/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/12/17/fed-unleashes-greatest-bubble-of-all/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Bizarrely, Bernanke and Co are in fact inviting investors to bet the policy will fail, the economy will remain mired in slump for a long period, deflation will occur and interest rates will remain on the floor, as Japan’s have done since the 1990s.</p>
<p>Buyers of real estate and subprime securities have recently been lampooned for foolishly overpaying at the top of the market. Bernanke and Co are gambling memories will prove short and investors will prove just as eager to pay top prices for long-term government and private debt even though the downside is large.</p>
<p>Let us have one last bubble, and when it collapses, we promise not to do any more in future…honest.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@river, &lt;br/&gt;Yes the details are few but, it seems they were using artillery (shells) and not rockets. First rule of explosives, don&#039;t keep them in your house. So that was his bad move. As far, as his body blowing up with a shell in it, I have no problem there.&lt;br/&gt;They would only need to use 40mm to 75mm ammunition to get the range they needed to seed the clouds. So during the explosion at his house one could have been embedded into his body, with out anyone noticing it. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;skippy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@river, <br />Yes the details are few but, it seems they were using artillery (shells) and not rockets. First rule of explosives, don&#8217;t keep them in your house. So that was his bad move. As far, as his body blowing up with a shell in it, I have no problem there.<br />They would only need to use 40mm to 75mm ammunition to get the range they needed to seed the clouds. So during the explosion at his house one could have been embedded into his body, with out anyone noticing it. </p>
<p>skippy</p>
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		<title>By: mxq</title>
		<link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/12/links-121808-and-happy-birthday-to-this.html#comment-29768</link>
		<dc:creator>mxq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE: Pettis...He cites Krugman jumping in on the trade imbalance debate...it seems like more and more serious economists are &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/488831013/global-capital-markets-water-flowing-uphill.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trying to figure out the end-game for this massive trade imablance&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE: Pettis&#8230;He cites Krugman jumping in on the trade imbalance debate&#8230;it seems like more and more serious economists are <a HREF="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/488831013/global-capital-markets-water-flowing-uphill.html" REL="nofollow">trying to figure out the end-game for this massive trade imablance</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Merry-will-go-round</title>
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		<dc:creator>Merry-will-go-round</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sacrebleu! The press and politicians can really get indignant when the targeted prey are mainly parasitic wealth accumulators (i.e., Madoff victims) intead of mere wage slaves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sacrebleu! The press and politicians can really get indignant when the targeted prey are mainly parasitic wealth accumulators (i.e., Madoff victims) intead of mere wage slaves.</p>
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		<title>By: doc holiday</title>
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		<dc:creator>doc holiday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A Cat, hanging by a thread, obviously is a metaphor that relates to Schapiro as The New change for SIFMA ... I mean The SEC.  How nice to see another example of nepotism, lobbying and crooked, twisted political manipulation, as yet another cat slips through the cracks and into a position to take advantage of political opportunity.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;What a great example of &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bait and switch&lt;/a&gt; for the people that were conned into voting for the nebulous concept of change, which makes me question if it was a verb or noun that Obama had in mind with his meaningless rhetoric.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Change as a verb:  To substitute another or others for; exchange for something else, usually of the same kind: She changed her shoes when she got home from the office.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Change as a noun:   The substitution of one thing for another: We finally made the change to an oil-burning furnace.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&gt;&gt;  I like the idea that Obama used the process of substitution to switch out The idiot Cox with a SIFMA cheerleader, a women who understands exactly what SIFMA needs in terms of aggressive lobbying and specific results from Obama and Congress.  No lack of clarity, she is connected to the machine and there is simply no doubt who she will serve.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;SIFMA lobbied successfully (once again) for change and now, this successful mafia-like entity which helped engineer our current systemic financial collapse, will have one of its very own inside the chicken coup, thus  --  iit would only be fair to see the sign above The Hen House, changed from, &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.sec.gov/about/whatwedo.shtml&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Investor&#039;s Advocate&lt;/a&gt; to:  SIFMA - The Powerful Voice of the Securities Industry (God Damn It)!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;See Also:  The Securities Act of 1933 is also known as the &quot;Truth in Securities Act&quot; or the &quot;Federal Securities Act” and is often shorted to the &quot;1933 Act.&quot; Its goal is to increase public trust in the capital markets by requiring uniform disclosure of information about public securities offerings. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;To ensure that the SEC remains non-partisan, no more than three Commissioners may belong to the same political party. The President also designates one of the Commissioners as Chairman, the SEC&#039;s top executive. However, the President does not possess the power to fire the appointed commissioners; a provision to ensure the independence of the SEC. This issue arose during the 2008 Presidential Election in connection with the ensuing Financial Crises.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Cat, hanging by a thread, obviously is a metaphor that relates to Schapiro as The New change for SIFMA &#8230; I mean The SEC.  How nice to see another example of nepotism, lobbying and crooked, twisted political manipulation, as yet another cat slips through the cracks and into a position to take advantage of political opportunity.</p>
<p>What a great example of <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY" REL="nofollow">bait and switch</a> for the people that were conned into voting for the nebulous concept of change, which makes me question if it was a verb or noun that Obama had in mind with his meaningless rhetoric.</p>
<p>Change as a verb:  To substitute another or others for; exchange for something else, usually of the same kind: She changed her shoes when she got home from the office.</p>
<p>Change as a noun:   The substitution of one thing for another: We finally made the change to an oil-burning furnace.</p>
<p>&gt;&gt;  I like the idea that Obama used the process of substitution to switch out The idiot Cox with a SIFMA cheerleader, a women who understands exactly what SIFMA needs in terms of aggressive lobbying and specific results from Obama and Congress.  No lack of clarity, she is connected to the machine and there is simply no doubt who she will serve.</p>
<p>SIFMA lobbied successfully (once again) for change and now, this successful mafia-like entity which helped engineer our current systemic financial collapse, will have one of its very own inside the chicken coup, thus  &#8212;  iit would only be fair to see the sign above The Hen House, changed from, <a HREF="http://www.sec.gov/about/whatwedo.shtml" REL="nofollow">The Investor&#8217;s Advocate</a> to:  SIFMA &#8211; The Powerful Voice of the Securities Industry (God Damn It)!</p>
<p>See Also:  The Securities Act of 1933 is also known as the &#8220;Truth in Securities Act&#8221; or the &#8220;Federal Securities Act” and is often shorted to the &#8220;1933 Act.&#8221; Its goal is to increase public trust in the capital markets by requiring uniform disclosure of information about public securities offerings. </p>
<p>To ensure that the SEC remains non-partisan, no more than three Commissioners may belong to the same political party. The President also designates one of the Commissioners as Chairman, the SEC&#8217;s top executive. However, the President does not possess the power to fire the appointed commissioners; a provision to ensure the independence of the SEC. This issue arose during the 2008 Presidential Election in connection with the ensuing Financial Crises.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with River, re the Wang story. Mythbusters need to get involved and I would bet that it would be a spectacular episode</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with River, re the Wang story. Mythbusters need to get involved and I would bet that it would be a spectacular episode</p>
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		<title>By: ruetheday</title>
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		<dc:creator>ruetheday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081218/madoff_scandal.html&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;-----------&lt;br/&gt;U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey removed himself from the probe because his son, Marc Mukasey, is representing Frank DiPascali, a top financial officer at Madoff&#039;s investment firm. The Justice Department refused to say when Mukasey became aware of the conflict but confirmed he was removing himself from all aspects of the case.&lt;br/&gt;---------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Frank DiPascali was one of the &quot;three people with keys to the 18th floor&quot; where the Ponzi Fund was run.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081218/madoff_scandal.html" rel="nofollow">http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081218/madoff_scandal.html</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey removed himself from the probe because his son, Marc Mukasey, is representing Frank DiPascali, a top financial officer at Madoff&#8217;s investment firm. The Justice Department refused to say when Mukasey became aware of the conflict but confirmed he was removing himself from all aspects of the case.<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Frank DiPascali was one of the &#8220;three people with keys to the 18th floor&#8221; where the Ponzi Fund was run.</p>
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		<title>By: MaryMary</title>
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		<dc:creator>MaryMary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SEC Nominee Mary Schapiro has Madoff connection&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a HREF=&quot;http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/12/17/sec-nominee-has-madoff-connection/&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mary Schapiro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;also a Wall Street insider during the past 20 years of corruption and excess.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://www.finra.org/AboutFINRA/Leadership/p009733</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SEC Nominee Mary Schapiro has Madoff connection</p>
<p><a HREF="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/12/17/sec-nominee-has-madoff-connection/" REL="nofollow">Mary Schapiro</a></p>
<p>also a Wall Street insider during the past 20 years of corruption and excess.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.finra.org/AboutFINRA/Leadership/p009733" rel="nofollow">http://www.finra.org/AboutFINRA/Leadership/p009733</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ruetheday,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;People are much more interested in the small scale fraud being perpetrated in Illinois than the massive fraud of a hedge fund.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It is much easier to understand someone calling people names and shaking down money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ruetheday,</p>
<p>People are much more interested in the small scale fraud being perpetrated in Illinois than the massive fraud of a hedge fund.  </p>
<p>It is much easier to understand someone calling people names and shaking down money.</p>
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