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Markets CRASHING daily! The B-i-e-b-s!! Olympic swimmer jillionaires !!! Welcome to Business Insider . I try to avoid reading Business Insider as much as possible since its level of intellectual sop…
Three-breasted aliens do program trading! (But even Rita Skeeter will shut up if you pay her enough.) Regular readers will note that I am actually discriminating about the news outlets I feature desp…
While I am partial to Latin conspiracy theories which surpass the limits of credulity, I must tell you there are even more outlandish crackpot conspiracy theories out there to captivate the feeble-m…
There are few things more pathetic than a consumerist automaton who lives to shop. This American disease has spread around the globe under the guise of various euphemisms--"economic efficiency,&…
"I am the Great MADURO", etc., etc. [NOTE: For those unfamiliar with the "Beavis and Butt-head" reference, see here and here .] If this is an example of socialists taking over t…
I think it's Hollywood's fault: In any number of action/spy/suspense/thriller movies, there is a good chance that they will depict some kind of shadowy secret organization that really runs t…
Oops, I may have spoken too soon when I mentioned that the US would not seek to antagonize China by excluding it from an Asia-Pacific FTA. This is just a brief follow-up to a recent post I made pooh…
Like in the US, right-wing nutjobs spewing conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen here in the UK. On the train home while perusing the Evening Standard --a publication that veers to the right, mind y…
You have to be pretty bad to outdo the CNBC flunkies who pollute cable TV with their endless hype about the US stock market and America in general when the truth is that neither have exhibited any pr…
