- Infographics news: A plane, a river and many graphics –
- What’s Making Hedge-Funders Paranoid – The All New Issue — New York Magazine – During the final months of 2008, as the financial markets imploded, talk on trading desks turned to food and water stockpiles, generators, guns, and high-speed inflatable boats. “The system really was about six hours from failing,” says Gene Lange, a manager at a midtown hedge fund, referring to the week in September when Lehman went bust and AIG had to be bailed out. “When you think about how close we were to the precipice, I don’t think it necessarily makes a guy crazy to prepare for the potential worst-case scenario.”
Posts Tagged: legacy
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Jan 09
Daily Links for January 16th
16
Jan 09
Huh? How does Mr. 27% get a 7-point bump on his way out the door?
Despite his own claims to the contrary as demonstrated in print and via his ‘valedictory’ last night, the W is for ‘worst’. USAToday has a visualization that shows the public approval trend.
History, as judged by historians, possibly after all those currently living are dead, may in fact judge him more kindly. But by nearly every group and every measurement, the consensus is that nobody likes him and they want him to leave. He is and will always be a miserable failure. So why the bump?
Even as the Bush Legacy Project churns away, grinding the remains into a more palatable form, it’s hard to stomach the revisionist history, whether it be on Iraq, housing, education, Veterans, or the economy.
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Jan 09
Daily Links for January 5th
- Forgotten Bush Scandals – The Daily Beast – Everyone remembers WMD and "Mission Accomplished." But what about the sordid Bush moments that slipped through the cracks? The Daily Beast has 20 indiscretions you may have forgotten.
- Incentive Central | Incentives and the Automotive Industry –
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Dec 06
Who Will be “My Pet (Scape) Goat”?
The resignation of Rumsfeld will certainly not be enough. And I'm certain that BushCo is desperately looking for someone to hang the miserable failure that is Iraq on anyone outside the inner-sanctum, but Baker Commission notwithstanding, I don't see it happening.
Political Cortex has a diary framing the sordid mess throught the most notorious children's book in American history, My Pet Goat.
