"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Sheila Bair, FDIC chair, promises to keep a better watch over those pesky bloggers claiming that bloggers spread misinformation about the IndyMac collapse something which, y’know, could panic people. The “misinformation” in question was factual reports of people standing in…
Gov. Schwarzenegger of California wants to cuts the pay of 200,000 state workers to minimum wage until a budget is passed (then pay it back.) The state controller says he will not implement it, setting the stage for court battles.…
They want to make the city a “foreclosure sanctuary” and stop banks from foreclosing. If successful, the lawsuit should provide all manner of chaos, merriment, counter lawsuits, and unintended results.
From a Treehugger post about how the sclerotic Los Angeles City Council can’t quite bring itself to ban plastic shopping bags even though Australia, San Francisco, and China have already or are implementing such bans.
SemGroup just filled bankruptcy after a $3.2bn trading loss in commodities. Interestingly, they were short oil, meaning they expected prices to drop. But a wildly flucuating oil market combined with other traders smelling SemGroup blood in the water forced them…