tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.comments2023-09-05T01:36:32.875-07:00Captain CapitalistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-58582241609234425642011-04-28T21:05:48.877-07:002011-04-28T21:05:48.877-07:00Your friend fails to realize that Superman is, in ...Your friend fails to realize that Superman is, in fact, an illegal alien.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16267677938891113110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-44341971629929996432010-05-27T21:13:23.238-07:002010-05-27T21:13:23.238-07:00As the post points out, Borealis, it's not aca...As the post points out, Borealis, it's not academic anymore. Either this was a wonderful piece of legislation and the majority will be proven wrong (myself included) or it wasn't. Time will tell. <br /><br />btw I find your response presumptuous and useless.Ed Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737642896341135163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-45546337119289708102010-05-26T10:40:55.491-07:002010-05-26T10:40:55.491-07:00That's pretty deep Ferrari. Of course, I wont ...That's pretty deep Ferrari. Of course, I wont last as long as a stone and I would like a descent government in MY lifetime....Blue Feather Micro-Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14801008694655158954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-28804809618052309262010-04-07T07:01:54.178-07:002010-04-07T07:01:54.178-07:00I find your article both brash and ill-informed. I...I find your article both brash and ill-informed. I would highly suggest you educate yourself about the actual bill, and take a more balanced view of the world around you in general.Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09863045585958636304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-61066251884697844192009-01-31T12:28:00.000-08:002009-01-31T12:28:00.000-08:00I'm not a Conservative, so I wont speak for them. ...I'm not a Conservative, so I wont speak for them. I'm a Capitalist. <BR/><BR/>Government and many big business lobbyists have worked together to create barriers to entry and innovation in the guise of ensuring safety and fairness in the marketplace. <BR/><BR/>Government handed industry huge cash infusions which they promptly used to pay themselves with. <BR/><BR/>If you're waiting for me to defend Shearson, Citi, CapOne, AIG, GM, Chrysler and the like, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. <BR/><BR/>In this case involving Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, chastizing Tweedle Dee and giving far greater power to Tweedle Dum is not the solution.Ed Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737642896341135163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-64003287787180582382008-11-27T08:23:00.000-08:002008-11-27T08:23:00.000-08:00yes, it is bipartisan. I submit though that conser...yes, it is bipartisan. I submit though that conservative ideology that said that govt. (and regulation) is bad and that the titans of finance are good just might have had a preponderance of cause for the 'melt-down' of responsibility. <BR/><BR/>But instead of 'responsibility' we hear a loud chorus of blaming the victims: working people shouldn't have borrowed so much, subprime borrowers were the fault...but Big Business being the guilty. And still little acknowledgement that the driving down of wages isn't a factor. If most people hadn't have lose so much income in the last decade...we'd been able to pay off those loans. Now, like the Coolidge-Hoover era we are in a state of 'blaming the victims'...'liquidation' of the most vulnerable and other rationales for greater income inequality. <BR/><BR/>now, tell us how govt. is the problem. We let the rating agencies, the hedgefund guys run amok with <I>our</I> pensions, income, and now we, the people, are supposed to pay the bankers for their own crimes. ? First of all, a more Progressive tax system might be in order. Instead of the regressive one we have now (social security is the highest tax many Americans pay now and it's only paid by the first 90k of earnings...meaning that 'captain's' of Capitalism pay very little of that tax.) Also, the reason the top one percent pays so much income tax even at a low rate (historically) is that they have dominated the present decade's income. They have made all the increase of income <I>to the exclusion of working people's incomes.</I>.<BR/><BR/>Still as Larry Summer's reluctantly admits <I>income inequality</I> is at the root of our problems. Even David Frum admits that. So I am awaiting a conservative response to that problem. (?)datadavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978878410581807239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-16544850238882905202008-11-24T23:58:00.000-08:002008-11-24T23:58:00.000-08:00You make the erroneous assumption that I'm a defen...You make the erroneous assumption that I'm a defender of this administration and its allies. <BR/><BR/>This is a bi-partisan travesty, concocted by politicians and their pals, who use the fear of economic hardship to take more and more control over the economy. <BR/><BR/>We're creating an ant farm. Trading individuality for the promise of stability.Ed Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737642896341135163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-33308800788051558502008-11-24T04:04:00.000-08:002008-11-24T04:04:00.000-08:00hmmm, I like to read the blogs on the Right esp. a...hmmm, I like to read the blogs on the Right esp. about Main Street. I am concerned too even though I don't agree that Govt. is the problem. You have heard of the expression: "Socialize Risk, Privatize Profits". That is what Reaganomics has been advocating for a long time and now we're seeing it happen. The huge bailouts of Wall Street now occuring is just that and leaders on the Right are advocating it as much as on the Left if not more so on the Right. Your President pushed it if you recall. Examine the Conservatives who led us here (and President Clinton is mostly a 'conservative' btw.) <BR/><BR/>Read "The Great Crash" by Galbraith and come back about what caused this Depression and 'that one'"(?) <BR/><BR/>Extreme income inequality was one. Extreme Leverage was another.<BR/>Hubris by the economic elites was another.... <BR/>Corruption and avoidance of responsibility.<BR/>...except now add this time CDO's and derivatives....'spreading the risk'....(the analogy is putting a cheap life insurance policy on a lot of strangers and 'shorting' it esp. if they are smokers or are stressed. <BR/><BR/>I bet a lot of Wall Streeters are betting on shorter life spans on Middle Class and working class america! They'll make millions on the people dying early.datadavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978878410581807239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-37766550530975610852008-11-19T06:12:00.000-08:002008-11-19T06:12:00.000-08:00eh, googled your blog. Now, Demand-side economics ...eh, googled your blog. Now, Demand-side economics isn't what you're describing. The Bush Administration has been a slavish follower of Reagan's supply-side econom-ism. "Keynesian" is another description of 'demand-side' which means govt. spending to help lower incomes be able to buy ..thus increase 'demand'. We now see a failure of supply-side economics which has a belief in increaseing money supply for 'investors' (the 'rich'). Sec. Paulson's given about 300 billion to the 'rich' banks...and little to show for it. Demand-side would encourage more prosperity from the bottom up rather than increasing wealth inequality. Increasing Demand from the majority of people is what is needed. Giving the 'investors' more money to "loan" to people unable to pay their current debts is 'supply-side' economics and like what went on during the Roaring 20s is a big failure leading to a Depression. And now here we are again.datadavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978878410581807239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-19676979884522464312008-09-30T10:28:00.000-07:002008-09-30T10:28:00.000-07:00Terren Peizer is known for being a junk bond sales...Terren Peizer is known for being a junk bond salesman for Michael Milken, later ratting on Milken as a plea bargain to get out of doing jail time. Peizer eventually started a few small companies that went bust and later started one company that did stick, but is now going down as well. Hythiam, is the name of the scam of a company going bust, and it sells controversial information about highly questionable drugs. Peizer was recently scorned by a celebrity playmate who dumped him for a more successful man, which made Peizer turned towards prescription drug medicines due to his visible aging and depression over not being married and unable to have children at the age of 49. Peizer is by no means a celebrity or even noteworthy for this article, but his desperate need to be famous is quite sad for such an old, insecure man.peizersgayloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10430262714295952121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-29228436141965382008-07-04T17:27:00.000-07:002008-07-04T17:27:00.000-07:00Very well said!Very well said!Twinsmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009305623601049437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-1343548132732065462008-04-15T12:47:00.000-07:002008-04-15T12:47:00.000-07:00Thanks Smartphone,I don't read spanish very well, ...Thanks Smartphone,<BR/><BR/>I don't read spanish very well, but judging by the number of comments you receive, you've got quite a following. Nice work.Ed Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737642896341135163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-74665593362916781362008-03-15T23:20:00.000-07:002008-03-15T23:20:00.000-07:00Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is ver...Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is very interesting, congratulations :-). I will add in my blogroll =). If possible gives a last there on my blog, it is about the <A HREF="http://smartphone-brasil.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Smartphone</A>, I hope you enjoy. The address is http://smartphone-brasil.blogspot.com. A hug.<A HREF="5477118287" REL="nofollow"></A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-83340283607243151922007-12-27T17:38:00.000-08:002007-12-27T17:38:00.000-08:00It's the manner in which corporations make money f...It's the manner in which corporations make money for themselves. <BR/><BR/>Absent government subsidies and favors (the govt/business partnership) corporations put their products and services up for a vote every minute of every business day. The will of the people is guaged and reassessed constantly and in real time. <BR/><BR/>I wouldn't put the whole of Congress be in charge of balancing my checkbook.Ed Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737642896341135163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2100879227135549797.post-55864892745489577062007-12-20T09:52:00.000-08:002007-12-20T09:52:00.000-08:00Hi,I hate to interrupt your corporate love fest bu...Hi,<BR/>I hate to interrupt your corporate love fest but your two teams arent accurate.<BR/><BR/>Its not just Clinton, Bush, Guiliani solving your 'problem', its the whole of congress and theoretically the will of people.<BR/><BR/>Corporations only know how to make money for themselves, not fairly govern a country. I cannot believe you would try and compare the two.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03302992445808009110noreply@blogger.com