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9 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Hank Paulson’

Welcome to October ‘02, Next Stop 1932?

By Denis Campbell • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
by Denis Campbell
Not likely.
After teasing us into thinking the worst was over in the credit market crisis, the Dow closed today off another 733 points or 8%, just 100 points above the 10-year low water point of October, 2002. Good luck in the debate John. This is about the worst news you could have five [...]


American Dream Kills Six, Nearly Seven, In One Day

By Charley James • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Business
 
by Charley James
The Karthik Rajaram family was living the American dream in Sorrento Pointe, a gated community in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains 23 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Yet earlier this week, the dream came crashing in on them. Beset with financial worries after not finding work for months on end and [...]


From A Dog Named Checkers To The Wholesale Looting Of America.

By Charley James • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics
 
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]


Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtains!

By Denis Campbell • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
Toto (John McCain and Barack Obama) grabbed at his pants leg as his voice boomed, “I am the Great and Powerful Financial Oz!” Or so Hank Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs wanted to say while his puppet, still President George W. Bush made a 2-minute appearance and his surrogates warned Democrats to [...]