Note: THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE was originally published in Rolling Stone. For whatever reason Jann “Yawn” Wenner hasn’t put a digital copy online. That may change. Fortunately there is a scanned copy in PDF form. Finally an OCR copy has been made and posted by – of all people – an SA goon namedContinue reading “THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE”
Tag Archives: Money
Goldman Sachs trying to silence critical blogger
Apparently they’re not cool with negative press under a domain name like goldmansachs666.com/. I don’t agree with a lot of what this guy is saying. In fact, some of it seems pretty nutty. Which is all the more reason to watch GS initiate the Streisand effect on this guy. He’s already got 90,000 some hitsContinue reading “Goldman Sachs trying to silence critical blogger”
Don’t Panic
This from the Consumerist: At the end of 2008, the FDIC’s insurance fund ratio was 0.40% of all insured deposits, far below the minimum 1.15% mandated by Congress. But, don’t panic. The Chinese still want to lend us money. I’m sorry – what? They’re starting to buy fewer treasuries and more oil futures. Well, that’sContinue reading “Don’t Panic”
Space invaders attack Los Angeles
One could argue that this is the first 8-bit global collective performance art project. It sort of reminds me of the 2007 Boston bomb scare fiasco. But without all that frothy bomb scare aftertaste. Maybe that’s where those Adult Swim guys got this idea. Because Invader started doing this back in 1999. Like MF Doom,Continue reading “Space invaders attack Los Angeles”
Great Depression Shutterings
I found a really great query that searches for companies that went under during the Great Depression. It returns a ton of great results.
