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Bad News & Good News On Wall Street

The action on Wall Street is wild and woolly today.  Actually, it’s been that way all year long it seems.  But, this is particularly crazy.  The major stock indexes have fallen sharply today.  This was preceded by declines on the European exchanges before our markets opened.  Today’s market action was triggered by some wild scrambling (see The Mother of all Mondays) over the weekend as Wall Street executives and U.S. Treasury representatives met to figure out what to do with several troubled an read

Black Monday, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So with all these “blue chip” (in reality irrationally arrogant) financial companies like Merrill Lynched, Lehman Bankrupters, AIG (Anonymous Incompetents Group), Shittygroup and Washington Massacred all in trouble in one way or another, the Dow hugging down 300 points on the day, financial website traffic booming and financial corporate drones of all low IQ numbers carrying boxes and walking around Wall St. aimlessly, you might think it’d be a rather exciting day for me. Exciting because my P read

AIG shirts sponsorship for Man Utd next to go?

AIG sponsorship of Man Utd in jeopardy AIG is in a financial mess and is asking the Feds to pony up a $40 billion loan to stave off credit agencies downgrading its stock which will bring it a step closer to bankruptcy or to the preferred takeover. With the Feds deciding against bailing out Lehman Brothers and leaving the company to file for bankruptcy, there is no sure bet that AIG's lifeline will be met. AIG lost 64% of its stock value today as it failed to give a plan to save its rating. read

米大手投資銀行倒産！日本にも影響大！

アメリカ大手銀行倒産！金融大混乱！ turmoil as top bank collapses (CNN) turmoilは、混乱とか騒動という意味 collapseはここでは自動詞で(組織等が)つぶれる アメリカの大手投資銀行リーマン・ ブラザーズ・ホールディングスが倒産してしまいました。 ここら辺が過当競争を生む現在の資本主義の終焉なのかもしれません。 あのメリルリンチもバンクオブアメリカに身売りです。 この合併まで第一位規模だったシティグループも結構やばそう。 アメリカン・インターナショナル・グループ(AIG)に至っては(数日中に)倒産という噂も。 日本で、アリコ保険とかアメリカンホーム保険とかTV宣伝してますけど、 大丈夫でしょうか。 それを受け、ＮＹ株急落下げ幅一時340ドル超。恐ろしや。 月曜日の株価は日本でも大暴落しそうですね。 Global markets were reeling Monday after a convulsive day on Wall Street that saw a leading U.S. inv read

IS WALL STREET IMPLODING? ASK SHOW AT 9 ET

Americans awoke today to the shocking news that two Wall Street banks have failed causing the stock market to tumble 300 points at the day’s open. Merrill Lynch, the largest brokerage force which was valued at $100 billion this year is selling itself to Bank of America for $50 billion. Lehman Bros., whose main customers are big financial institutions, is going into bankruptcy, liquidating its assets and winding down its trade operations. Why? Tens of billions of dollars in losses due to ba read

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Under the new program any children with diagnoses other than minor depression or attention deficit

Apple Braces For Trileptal iphones To Hit Europe. Zander and I are always Sarah zander about. Who are often the targets of these Trileptal for mood. Instead they push what they call mood. Every fourth natalia suffers a mental disorder. CIA agrees with Pakistan on who killed Bhutto. S strongest warning label on them, a U. T show a high enough risk for suicidal. KDKA Pittsburgh Wed Jul, PM ET. That review found that patients taking the drugs had about twice the risk of suicidal behavior compar read

Radio Days

A revolutionary inventionImagine a time before internet, television, or radio.Brief notices of important events were sent by telegraph, the fastest media that existed.People read newspapers and magazines to learn about the world beyond their hometowns. In small towns, the news was often out-of-date before the publications arrived. For that matter, much of the news was old even when it was written.This was America at the end of World War I. But a decade later, a surge of interest, development, an read

Blogging PatFordgate

Image via Wikipedia Chris Briem wonders if the Pat Ford settlement will mean the end of the Burghosphere - “I mean, will there be enough fodder for people to write about going forward. It’s debatable.”  But Doug Sheilds has already called for an investigation and thus the saga of what can only be labeled Pat-Fordgate continues.  Here is what the bloggers are saying… Dear Pat Ford and Alicia Sirk @ The Burgh Blog “So let me shout it out right now.  You are a disgrace to this city and the peo read

Lipstick and Pigs

From NZ dumpThe photo is from our travels in New Zealand. Wild pigs in NZ are called Captain Cookers -- because it was Captain Cook who introduced the pigs to New Zealand. Some went wild. Kevin Miller of KDKA radio is going to kiss pigs with lipstick in Gateway Center. What a waste. read

Erie PA News and Events for Friday, September 12, 2008

The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) rejected Pennsylvania's application to make I-80 a toll road. A factor for why the FHA rejected the application is because it believed the money that would be paid to the state was not based on an objective market valuation. "There is simply no evidence that the lease payments are related to the actual costs of acquiring an interest in the facility," said Tom Madison of the FHA. A Spanish company and a unit of Citigroup offered a $12.8 billion upfront pay read

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Dee Snider To Appear On Kitchen Nightmares

In the time period premiere for Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Gordon Ramsay travels to the Handlebar Restaurant and Lounge in Mt. Sinai, New York. Handlebar Restaurant and Lounge looks like a flashback to the eighties. The restaurant’s décor is very outdated, but the owners Bill and Carolyn LeRoy are in denial. Handlebar represents their dream to “serve good food to good company.” Dee Snider of heavy metal band Twisted Sister will make a special guest appearance on this episode. Kitchen Nightmar read

Dee Snider To Appear On Kitchen Nightmares

In the time period premiere for Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Gordon Ramsay travels to the Handlebar Restaurant and Lounge in Mt. Sinai, New York. Handlebar Restaurant and Lounge looks like a flashback to the eighties. The restaurant’s décor is very outdated, but the owners Bill and Carolyn LeRoy are in denial. Handlebar represents their dream to “serve good food to good company.” Dee Snider of heavy metal band Twisted Sister will make a special guest appearance on this episode. Kitchen Nightmar read

It’s Back to the Future On Kitchen Nightmares

It’s Back to the Future On Kitchen Nightmares Faith W | From Fox: Chef Gordon Ramsay pays a visit to the Handlebar Restaurant and Lounge in Mt. Sinai, NY, with hopes of fulfilling a couple’s dream to serve good food to good company. In what seems to be a flashback from the 1980s, owners Bill and Carolyn LeRoy are in denial of the restaurant’s outdated dcor and head chef’s lack of passion. Will Gordon get through to hot-headed Bill and be able to turn this restaurant around? Find out on KITCH read

Made it from Mexico to Canada…and back

My brother and I started the mex2can.com dual sport motorcycle ride back in early May and successfully made the 5 day ride (some 85% of it in the dirt) from Tecate on the Mexico/US border to Fallon, NV. This past week we participated in the second half of the ride starting in Fallon, NV on August 16th and rode into Eastport, ID on the Canadian/US border on August 23rd. My brother flew back home from Spokane, WA on Sunday while I rode back to Fallon with the ride organizers and a couple of th read

ChiarelloWire: In a rather lengthy (17 minute)...

In a rather lengthy (17 minute) video interview, Michael Chiarello discusses among other things, his upcoming Yountville restaurant, Bottega. The good stuff is around the 11-minute mark, when the NapaStylist talks about how he'll compete with Thomas Keller, why he's returning to the restaurant business, the timeline for Bottega ("late fall"/November?), the history of the building, and has some glowing words for the team he's assembled, including one guy with a French accent and handlebar mustac read