Month December 2008

So where did Madoff’s $50 billion go?

Madoff confessed $50 billion fraud before FBI arrest His clients were hedge funds, presumably not idiots, yet they didn’t know. Seems odd. How can that much money vanish and was this just a solitary amoral greedhead or was it, um,…

Did the Republic Windows workers win or lose?

Lefti Workers at Republic Windows and Doors have “won” a major victory thanks to their militant six-day sit-down strike occupying the plant – full back pay and severance pay, etc. But their plant is still shutting down, and the owner…

Links. 12/11

Rumsfeld blamed in detainee abuse by bi-partisan Senate report. California adopts nation’s most comprehensive global warming plan. There is a black hole 27,000 light years from us that is four million times the size of the sun. Text messaging now…