Tuesday
Jun212011
J.P. Morgan Fined $155M Over Mortgage Fraud, Obama's $50,000 Interest-Free Gift To Troubled Homeowners, Missing Iraq Money May Total $18B, Ratigan On America For Sale, Just Discovered Obamacare Glitch (15 LINKS)
Links from around the web.
- J.P. Morgan fined $155 million by SEC over mortgage securities fraud
- Bill Gross Monthly Letter: "College Is Worthless"
- SEC Should Free ’Fab’ Tourre, Target Big Fish: William D. Cohan - Bloomberg
- Fitch Sees Risk of Greece, US Debt Defaults - Reuters
- Obama's Newest $50,000 Interest-Free Gift To Troubled Homeowners
- The Japanese Plunge Protection Team Exposed: The BOJ's "1% Rule"
- The 2-Minute Version Of "Too Big To Fail"
- Peter Schiff on Greece: "If the Fed stops printing, the govt must stop spending"
- Missing Iraq money may be as much as $18 billion
- Keeping up with all the hackers and recent targets (chart) - CNET
- China central bank finds officials STOLE $123 billion
- Stop the Greek hostage crisis! - Stop the Bailout!
- David Cameron: The UK won't bail out Greece
- America for Sale: Is Goldman Sachs Buying Your City? - Dylan Ratigan Op-Ed
- Just Discovered Obamacare Glitch Opens Medicaid To Millions Of Middle-Class
- How a $13 Trillion Cover Story was Written - Free money creation to bail out America’s elite financial speculators, but not for Social Security or Medicare
Reader Comments (12)
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http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2011/06/perry-adds-anti-tsa-bill-to-special-session/
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For many householders, it is most sparkling area of the kitchen. But the inside of people's dishwashers could be harbouring potentially lethal bugs, according to scientists.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8589765/Dishwashers-harbour-killer-bugs.html
Monique Lawless had nothing personal at stake when she saw three men leaving a Walmart store in Alvin with three cases of beer they didn't pay for. She was a customer, not an employee, of the store.
Yet Lawless, who stands just under 5 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds, took off in pursuit of the three much larger men.
"I'm just sick of the lawlessness," the 42-year-old Alvin woman said. "They knew their chances of getting caught were slim to none. Those kids would have gotten away with it, celebrated their theft and probably continue to do it."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7619201.html#ixzz1PxuGrWFS
Mostly agree with him about an undergrad education--silly to spend $200K reading Shakespeare, Milton and the French symbolists. Can be done on own time and without the opinions of the Prof dictating their meaning. Agree with him and Rosenberg, Thiel et al. re: tech and engineering.
Funny, though, that Gross said don't go into finance. Hmmmm? Didn't finance make him a billionaire?