Entries by Dr. Pitchfork (134)
Mar 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Alex Jones Disturbs The View With Rant On TSA Abuse, George Bush, The Fed And The $23.7T Wall Street Bailout
Video - Alex Jones on The View - Feb. 28, 2011
Start watching at the 4:30 mark.
Jones was on the show to talk about his friend Charlie Sheen, but for Jones every conversation leads back to bailouts, the Federal Reserve and America turning into a police state. Heart of Darkness / Apocalypse Now reference at 5:27.
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil: Citi's Vikram Pandit May Have Violated Federal Securities Law
This is yet one more instance in which a few intrepid reporters and bloggers have more on the ball than the SEC, FINRA, and the Department of Justice combined.
PAULSON PANCAKED: Dartmouth Hank Is No Match For Cornell's Friedman
Paulson the offensive lineman at Dartmouth and Friedman, the much smaller wrestler from Cornell. Guess who got his ass kicked...
Geithner "Quite Open" to Chinese Proposal To Replace Dollar As Global Reserve Currency
After news of last week's IMF proposal, we went digging and found this Geithner clip in the wayback machine. This made a brief splash back in early 2009 and was popular among conspiracy theorists, but it has largely been forgotten up to now, and we suspect that many observers simply dismissed it as a meaningless gaffe. However, in light of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn's formal proposal to consider replacing dollars with SDR's (Special Drawing Rights), Geithner's comments look less like a gaffe (in the sense of a mistake), and more like a gaffe as defined by Michael Kinsley: "A 'gaffe' is the opposite of a 'lie.' It's when a politician [accidentally] tells the truth."