Here’s a clue- when someone says the above to you, it’s a really, really bad idea. [Hat tip T.M.!]  

There isn’t much likelihood you’d get the two confused, as GoldmanSachs666, the blog, is devoted to the notion that Goldman Sachs, the bank, secretly created the current financial crisis through neglect or design. … Yet a cease-and-desist letter sent to Morgan last week from a law firm retained by Goldman Sachs wants his blog taken down … [1] Even Fox can see what’s coming, and they don’t like it one bit.

If you’ve had a sleepless night recently and turned on the TV, you know there is no shortage of infomercials on the joys of buying foreclosures and short sales.  The reality isn’t as pleasant as the shows portray, as shown in this Washington post article:  [Hat tip Freedom's Phoenix] As bargain hunters turn their attention to foreclosures, many are discovering the toughest challenge is dealing with the banks that repossessed the homes. These banks are usually quick to accept a bid and write a contract. But the closer buyers get to the settlement table, the greater the potential for bureaucratic…
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The builders of [US] railroads and canals had gone bust [in the course of the Panic of 1873], but they left a transportation infrastructure that in time bound regions together. Commodities – kerosene from Eastern coal, wheat from Western fields, canned fruit from Southern orchards – flowed down this web to the great ports of the US seaboard. Ton by ton, America remade itself into an export powerhouse, the China of the day. [1] It’s frustrating how The Monitor gets it about Professor Nelson’s analogy, and then completely drops the ball on the little detail that America was the emergent…
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Baker, who plans to dress up as the Statue of Liberty, said governments should act as households do and not spend money they do not have. [1] On February 15, 2003, Mrs. M and I walked in a protest march for the first and, to this point, only time in our lives.  That was authentic.  So were the biblically proportioned bank riots a few months ago in Thessaloniki. Same goes for the political unrest occurring as we speak in Thailand.  I have serious doubts, however, about the genuineness of the nation-wide protests being orchestrated for Wednesday, the 15th of this…
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