Bob Morris on Mar 26, 2010, 11:36 am Now it is getting closer to being official. This Bloomberg story reports that not only do Wall Street firms screw their clients (hardly a novel revelation these days) but a large group of firms allegedly conspired to price-fix on guarantee investment contracts, a product used by government issuers to park cash raised via bond [...] Bob Morris on Mar 26, 2010, 8:15 am Pope was told pedophile priest would get transfer Pope accused of ignoring pleas to stop priest who molested 200 deaf boys How can someone who is the problem also be the solution to it? Bob Morris on Mar 26, 2010, 7:24 am This was in response to Netanyahu ordering new settlements while Biden was in Israel, a huge insult and quite deliberate insult meant to appease the extreme right in Israel. After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu. Mr Obama was said to [...] Sue on Mar 26, 2010, 5:15 am In one of the largest money laundering case brought against a check cashing company to date, Supermail’s officers and several employees went to jail for years and were personally subject to fines of up to two times their gains from their crimes. Supermail itself was also subject to 200% fines. This for “laundering” $3.2 million [...] Bob Morris on Mar 26, 2010, 12:15 am Because when he did it recently at Carnegie Hall, no one caught him. What is *wrong* with audiences today??? Bob Morris on Mar 25, 2010, 7:45 pm House price declines tied to job loss, says MetroTrends For most of the metro areas in the “double trouble” group, the sharp downturn followed rapid gains in house prices and employment opportunities earlier in the decade. In fact, the bigger the boom, the harder the fall. The double-whammy states of California, Florida, and [...] Josh Mull on Mar 25, 2010, 3:15 pm America is pursuing its goals in Pakistan by engaging in a Strategic Dialogue with a military dictator who uses terrorism to fuel conflict with India. But unlike the Pakistani and Pashtun people, you have a voice in this Strategic Dialogue. [...] Bob Morris on Mar 25, 2010, 10:45 am As we learned when studying the case of the dancing hippie, it’s the first follower that “transforms a lone nut into a leader.” May many more follow. Freedom is always better than repression and coercion. China has every right to set rules about what happens inside its borders. However, companies working there also [...] Bob Morris on Mar 25, 2010, 8:15 am Emphasis added. Take Juarez. People talk about the extinction of the press, the demonetizing of reportage. In Juarez people are being shot. Twice the people we lost in 9/11. Why? Because the anti-terrorist anti-insurgency troops switched sides and decided to become a narco-terrorist regime. And something they were told was to ice the media. What [...] Bob Morris on Mar 25, 2010, 5:20 am The Yike Bike is electric and can be easily folded then put in a case and carried with a shoulder strap. It looks quite amazing and could revolutionize city transport. Seriously. | IVN articles by Bob Morris
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