Archive for October, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- Are you kidding me?? What are you talking about?? First of all Turkey is democracy and anyone should be able to wear whatever they want anywhere. There are more covered woman on campuses here in the U.S. than in Turkey. Are you out of your mind?? Turkey should grabble with more meaningful Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Lack of regulation? Please.. Banking is one of the most regulated industries in the economy. We had bad regulation based on bad social policy which systematically drove us to disaster. Fannie and Freddie made the rules and the rest of the industry wasn't much more than their marketing arm filling Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- YES, legalization *DID* take the profit out of the *VIOLENT* part of the alcohol trade. (Seagrams has not been in a shooting war with Johnny Walker Black or Stoli, to my knowledge! ;) To get the flavor of Prohibition, I relate a story I heard from my great-uncle Pete, a college student during Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs version of the event: "The Vietnamese allegations are completely untrue. As we all know, China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and adjacent waters. For generations, Chinese fishing boats operated in the waters of the Nansha Islands. Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- I am a homebuilder and a realtor and i have had 3 deals killed this year on low appraisals and have had to eat about $25,000 due to low appraisals. I have had appraisals come in 15% apart and as high as 25% apart when ordering multiple appraisals on a deal. I had an instance where the same Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Hello,... I hope someone can help me and provide some advice! I just graduated from my Masters program and begin working in management. I need some good suits. I already have 4 suits -- all from Men's Warehouse in the $599 range + alterations. I am 6'4, 195lbs... and its so dang expensive Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Reading past statements of Mr. Al-Marayati, makes me think he speaks with a forked tongue. There is nothing wrong with his words of today, but past quotes indicate he minimizes the existence of Islamic terrorism, that he is a slickster who tries to enlist the cooperation of useful idiots in Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- It is very reflective of the narrow consciousness and black and white thinking characteristic of Republicans that some stolen hacked data suddenly blows a lifetime of climate research away and renders it illegitimate. This is perhaps the most stupid things I have seen the Republicans do outside Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- @Maxim Looking at the national debt graph, from 1974 to 2010 (36 yrs) the debt grew from .5 trillion to 14.3 trillion. That's an average of 9.76% per year. The U.S. CPI index, from 1974 to 2006 (32 yrs), grew from about 45 to about 205. That's and average of 4.85% per year. CPI is highly correlated Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- There were so many red flags to Bernie Madoff's operation that it is amazing it went on as long as it did. For that, everyone who was complicit should be paying, including JPMC and every other feeder organization. The fact taht he was unwilling to go through a more thorough due diligence process Read More...