Submitted by charliehiphop on Sat, 2009-07-11 08:58
Fat cats stole $100,000,000 every day from suckers like you and me
If that's not a racket, I don't know what is.
(First of all, I want to give props to this guy, who called this at least a week before the story broke. He needs to take the word "legally" out of the headline, though. There is nothing legal about what Goldman was/is doing.) Read it all
Wall Street jocks only paid themselves $20 billion in bonuses this year, a year in which they lost untold billions of dollars and came hat-in-hand to us, hardworking (when we can find work) taxpayers, asking for a $700 billion handout.
Seemingly just to rub it in, they rewarded themselves for successfully carrying out this great snow job with friggin' BONUSES!!! Worth $20 BILLION!?!?
OK, OK, so it isn't really capitalism in the sense of somebody earning money through good old fashioned business acumen and hard work. It would more properly be termed fraud -- bare-naked, unadulterated, porcine graft on an enormous scale. It's the financial equivalent of one of those animal factories leaching great toxic lakes of crap into the water we drink. (Ha, and meat eaters have the gall to give me a hard time for smoking! Ignorami... at least I'm aware of the danger of what I'm doing, and the damage I'm doing is primarily to myself.) Read it all
Submitted by charliehiphop on Fri, 2008-11-14 14:08
Wall Street's meltdown was the result of massive fraud, incredible corruption, and endless incompetence. As I explained in many other posts, these guys were pulling money out of their butts. Anyone who knows anything about Wall Street knows that the people running it are pretty much a bunch of asshole Ivy League jocks who fell into their lucrative stations in life without knowing dick but knowing Dick, their dad's tennis buddy and fellow Princeton alum. Read it all
Submitted by charliehiphop on Mon, 2007-11-05 10:05
[Update: We now know the exact figure of the multi-million-dollar package awarded to Chuck Prince, who wiped $36 billion off Citigroup's balance sheet -- $140 million. Disgusting.]
CitiGroup CEO Chuck Prince resigned yesterday. Hmmm, another quiet Sunday afternoon resignation of a Wall Street prince... a trend emerges. Why do these guys resign on Sunday afternoon? Do they think nobody will notice? Wall Street seems to have noticed -- the Dow is down 83 points at the time of this writing. That rate cut last week really did its job, didn't it! Those guys at the Fed sure are smart! Read it all