Monthly Archives: April 2010

About those Tea Partiers…

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Andrew Sullivan: Their partisanship and cultural hostility to Obama are far more intense, it seems to me, than their genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. And this is largely because they have no genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. They seem very protective of Medicare and Social Security – and their older age bracket underlines this. They also… Read more »

Holy s***!! Feds sue Goldman Sachs for fraud over Magnetar-like shenanigans; stock market PANICS!!!; heads asplode; Matt Taibbi faints; world ends

The SEC: it’s a WAR!! Against Goldman Sachs!! Fear!! Fire!! Foes!! Awake!! PANIC!!!!! In an absolutely stunning development, Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, whose influence is so pervasive that it’s been accused of being virtually a branch of the federal government unto itself, has been sued by the federal government — specifically the Securities and Exchange Commission — for alleged… Read more »