Posts Tagged: Vanity Fair


19
Dec 09

A Tale of Two Ivies

One of the more frustrating things about Obama’s economic team and policy has been the use of the same advisors who contributed to the conditions that made the Great Recession possible (Geithner, Summers, etc.).

Some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania, saw the changing and challenging economic environment and shifted their investments accordingly.   An earlier email by Penn President Amy Gutman (via Business Insider) detailed the investment strategy and operating cost-containment measures:


3
Jul 09

Wait for it…[Updated]

[Updated: Via ThinkProgress, Max Blumenthal reports this may be an embezzlement pay-for-play scandal similar to that which led to Palin's fellow Alaskan Senator Tubez' defeat and near-conviction.]

Resist the urge to pick the low hanging fruit on Sarah Palin.   Her abrupt resignation (transcript here) may be just the beginning:

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I originally thought that this was simply another shakedown – like the Letterman imbroglio – just an attempt to pay off her half-million dollars-plus of legal bills related to her gubernatorial legacy of ethics violations by shaking down the rubes.  The recent Vanity Fair expose certainly did her no favors.  I fully expected their to be cries of sexism related to her Runners World ‘centerfold’ interview.  She certainly has had an ‘interesting’ week.  But then I saw this at the bottom of this FDL post by EdwardTeller:


6
Mar 09

Enough Already!! We’re all in – it’s time to show our hands.

The news has been consistently full of disheartening records of ‘lowest since’ and ‘highest since’ for quite a while.  Unemployment is still rising if not accelerating.   12% of all homes with mortgages are either in default, delinquent, or foreclosure.  Nearly every economic metric chart looks either like a moonshot or cliffdiving.  The Dow Jones has now fallen farther and faster than the it did in 1929.

It’s time to stop bluffing.

Dia 104: Derrumbandose
Creative Commons License photo credit: Freddy The Boy

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