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Michael Lewis If you happen to be sitting on the Goldman Sachs bond-trading floor life must feel horribly unfair. You did nothing worse than live by the ethical assumptions of your market — any money-making event short of obviously illegal is admirable — and now your own grandfather thinks you’re some kind of monster. [...] The Rogers Family Company – a California-based, international roaster of “Fairly Traded” and “Direct Trade” gourmet coffee – is deploying a ‘green’ army of billions of red earthworms to create nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer to help small coffee farmers and promote organic coffee production in Central America and Africa. The worms also aerate the soil and [...] Goldman Sachs CEO blubbers about how unfair the lawsuits are No, seriously, he really did just say that. Completely delusional. And cracking under the pressure. Dang. The idea that an SEC enforcement action on a lone transaction is tantamount to a campaign to “kill” the firm is bizarre…It suggests either hypersensitivity to bad press, [...] California Aqueduct “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over,” said Mark Twain, which is certainly true here in California and in the southwest in general. The problem, of course, is that much of our water comes from someplace else, like the Owens Valley, Colorado River, or the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and [...] California’s budget crisis is actually much less than they’re spending on the war in Afghanistan. $26 billion for the budget vs $38 billion for war. And what do they get for it? It’s not better to live in California thanks to the war. It’s actually getting much, much worse. [...] South Korean ship was sunk by North Korea torpedo 56% of Californians support legalizing pot in November election John Paulson now raging bull on housing and economy. (He shorted that Goldman CDO of mortgages and made billions a few years ago.) Greece welcomes its new IMF overlords with day of rioting and national strikes [...] Apparently some areas are still having a real estate boom. Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, says he may collaborate with DoJ “to see if there are cases of fraud and if AIG and as a result, the American taxpayers, were victims of similar types of fraud.” Added bonuses: The Fab One will testify before the Senate on April 27. Sen. Levin: Another ‘big [...] Idaho and Montana teens spread the word about Meth by creating original artwork in the 2010 Paint the State contest The Meth Project gets results too. Recent survey data in Montana, where the Meth Project first initiated its prevention campaign in 2005, demonstrates attitudes and behaviors toward Meth have changed since the campaign launched. The [...] NYC to charge homeless rent . |
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