My timing is off. I figured J.P. Morgan would own Bear Stearns with help from the Fed by the end of the week. It turns out to be this morning’s big business news. And such a deal. Wow.
You couldn’t put that in a movie plot, nobody would believe it could happen. “Police believe [ABBA drummer] Brunkert may have fallen against a glass partition separating his home’s kitchen from the garden, and the glass broke and fatally cut his throat…. He was found in the garden and is believed to have bled to death…. An official cause of death is pending until after an autopsy.”
Make sure your anti-virus and anti-spyware software is up to date. Researchers think as much as 85% of spam may be generated by a mere 6 spybots distributed on unsuspecting computers across the world.
You go girl! Susie at Suburban Guerilla is great at finding quotes like this and this.
Eliot may have liked screwing expensive call-girls, but he didn’t like banks screwing his constituents. A month ago — before he was exposed as a hypocrite and forced to resign — he wrote this piece for the Washington Post about how the various state attorneys general tried to stop certain lending practices and were shut up by the feds.
Nancy on FISA. Yeah, oversight of the Administrations surveillance activities. Let us know how that works out for you.
It’s raining Yen, hallelujah…. Yen are now worth more than pennies, since the dollar has dropped as low as 96 Yen. Sure makes you feel like this:
Speaking of the economy, 3/4 of us think we have a recession on our hands right now. “‘Forty-two percent of those polled say the economy is the biggest issue on their minds, nearly double the amount who felt that way in October, the last time Iraq topped the list as the most important issue,’ said Keating Holland, CNN’s polling director. Iraq ranks as the second most important issue, at 21 percent, followed by health care at 18 percent, terrorism at 10 percent and immigration at 7 percent.” Oh, and “Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government, but three out of four view the federal government as secretive, according to a survey released Sunday.”
And last but not least. Don’t Forget Tibet.