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CNBC: Is The Joke On Us?

CNBC isn’t really an all business news cable television network. It’s an all comedy channel and the “experts” it presents to its viewers are the jokers.
In a wonderful Salon.Com posting by Gabriel Winant, the writer pretty much rips Jim Cramer a new one.
He points out how small CNBC’s audience really is, but also how powerful!
And, [...]

President Obama has released tons of till now secret Bush administration memos that paint a disturbing picture of the police state Bush planned –and to some degree executed–in the name of fighting terrorism.  Many of the memos were written by a Justice Department official who now actually teaches law at Berkeley. He should be removed [...]

I don’t know what is worse, that American International Group (AIG), the giant and broke insurance company, is about to reportedly announce the largest  quarterly corporate loss in U.S. (and probably world history) or that taxpayers will now cough up still more money in an effort to keep it from dying.
According to a Reuters report, and [...]

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