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Paul Volcker: The Voice in the Wilderness

T.Mark is developing quite a following, and for good reason. Knows history, and speaks plainly..with more than a little whimsey to keep a faint smile twinkling in our minds...meaning fun, and certainly enlightening at the same time.
Lots of us recall Paul Volcker...many of us were lithe and eager youths then...but a little alarmed at his, Volcker's, setting in place a staggering prime interest rate. It was the bullet that shot Pres. Carter in the foot. We also recall what seemed an endless round of hostile takeovers and greenmail mergers following Carter's demise and the 'deregulating GOP's' rise to stardom... the term "hostile" not nearly the melifluous sound of "mergers and acquisitions".
The picture is becoming more clear. Write on, Trader....
( hmm...sounds almost like (shudder ) "Right On"!

Under The Radar News - Friday

Re: "goggle eyes" and yoohoo, the world desperately needs some real competition in this amrekt place. Most of us have found that it is becoming increasingly problematic to find a useful website resulting from a tedious search. In part owing to the 'pay per click' advertising /get rich quick scheme' where if you expect your page to be viewed on the front page, you better be prepared to budget at least a grand or even several grand a month for the priveledge of beign "seen". A goggle/yoohoo merger might be a flash in the pan fast buck opp...but in the end, it will not help anyone. It will just provide us with scores of pages of useless webpages to scroll through to find something useful. And while I'm at it...ebay desperately needs a viable competitor. Seven billion a year gross for ebay, for a 'virtual store', with no real ovehead, is unconscionable. Of course, who cares about consciousness, or integrity, or true worth today? Let's just keep appointing our golf buddies to the board, who will approve a 20 million dollar severance package for us once we drive the corporation into bankruptcy. And damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead.