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Obamacare: Affordable Private Insurance Is Already Available

No CLH, they go to India or Mexico for 20% of the cost in the US.

OUTRAGE OF THE DAY

We have a national religion and it is the Military, and the Industrial - Political Complex the lurks behind it.

This is exactly what Ike tried to warn us about.

NOT SUITABLE FOR SEEKING ALPHA

What?

Your articles are some of the best on the entire site.

Guess what - the big political is of fundamental importance to navigating the world's financial systems.

I disagree with SA in this totally.

Goldman's Success: Put Down Those Pitchforks

Well Here ya have it. Don't believe your lying eyes.


"There are simply too many former Goldman people now well-placed in federal positions for me to believe that there is nothing going on. Goldman's competitors being systematically killed off by former Goldman people now in upper levels of government. Some have suggested that Goldman's high frequency trading(HFT) platform, which was stolen and then recovered recently, enabled users(GS) to front-run stocks illegally. The speed of the recovery of the stolen HFT code was breath-taking. I mean, the FBI treated that thing as if it was the presidential briefcase with the nuclear launch codes that had been stolen. I doubt the government would have pursued a presidential assassin any more aggressively. The same bureaucracy that spent over 10 years ignoring slam-dunk evidence of multi-billion dollar fraud in the Madoff case, suddenly moves at light speed to return Goldman's sacred HFT code to them. Isn't it amazing how priorities tend to enhance performance? Not that I would dare suggest, as others have, that there "

Ben Stein, Predatory Bait-and-Switch Merchant

He richly deserves all of the above and more.

Barclays Bank Pays for Poor Choice of Partners

Barclay v. Juniper Bank were the enablers that allowed Travelocity to rip me off of $600, and from following others many more were ROBBED by this cleverly built scam banking.

A Large and Small POX on all of them, and a warning to anyone who uses them - you will regret doing business with them, in my view.

TRAVELOCITY WAS FULL OF LIARS. NOT MY OPIONION - I CAN PROVE IT.

Beware of Ulterior Motives Behind Statements of Financial Experts

Here is some clear thinking in befuddled times.

Singing the American Express Blues

Face it folks.

Anyone who uses CC for a substitute for cash is asking for financial floggings.

You can't even read, much less understand the fine print, and they have the right to change to contract after you sign on.

I think the best advice is to SHUN AMEX and their ilk, get a CC from a local bank, and use it for car rentals and flights as needed.

The rest - pay in silver.

Credit Card Crunch: Creating a New Generation of Subprime

On Mar 27 02:13 PM William Cowie wrote:

> Great article.
>
> How about getting Fair Isaac & Co. to replace Moody's and S&P
> for business credit ratings?

Beautiful - I nominate YOU for SOT.

Wells Fargo (WFC) calls off plans to host a Las Vegas employee conference after a rain of complaints from lawmakers. Wells says it cancelled the event 'in light of the current environment' and no government money was used for the meeting.

Is their a better word for Idiot??

That is what is needed here.

Or a .44 pistol held to the head.

This is really beyond the beyound.

Major Potential Risks to Credit Quality in 2009 - Fitch

" Why is anyone listening to these guys? "

Exactly Right. T

he rating agencies seem to have led the pack in corruption and self dealing and now they expect to be the sage advisors???

What the Conflict in Gaza Means for Financial Markets

"It's about time that someone started killing the families of the terrorists and the people who allow the terrorists to launch missiles from their neighborhoods. This will help cut down future terrorist attacks. If most everyone is dead or hungry and wounded they won't have time to terrorize. "

Your words work very well with respect to the Israel terrorists, only they do not launch home made fireworks from their neighborhoods, but use Hell Fire missiles, and the like, launched from Apaches and Fighter Bombers.

And Yes, its well past time for this to occur, and I hope the worlds Great Powers deal Israel a crippling blow in the future. It is a debt past due.

Ben Stein Watch: December 28, 2008

Ben is a pompous clown and richly deserves anything he gets. Good job Felix.

James Grant Wants to Know: Who Will Buy Our Greenbacks?

"For all of the elegance and simplicity inherent in a hard currency, it is also a straight jacket. There is much to be said for the modern method. If the people who we choose to administer that system showed more wisdom and harked back to the Roots and others who spoke a great deal of truth then, we might not find ourselves in the sort of predicament we now face."

There is the truth of the matter and the difficulty of it as well.

The central bank needs to have almost superhuman men and women running it, free, or at least constrained, from common human weaknesses, like greed and pride.

Five Riskiest Assumptions for 2009

Your "How to tell if you are rich" link goes to cars link. Thoughtful article, thanks.