Unless a deal is inked by midnight todaytomorrow, refinery workers are going on strike, and about 60 companies will be affected: HOUSTON (AP) — With a third contract offer rejected, some 24,000 refinery workers from the Gulf of Mexico to Montana prepared to head to the picket lines Saturday just hours before an existing labor [...]
Entries from January 31st, 2009
No “Ankle Chains” At The BOE – Women Get A New Dress Code
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · fail
Ankle chains? Those are for hookers. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is giving out wardrobe advice now. From WWD: The Bank of England may be grappling with the plummeting pound, falling interest rates and the worst financial crisis to hit Britain since the Depression, but somehow it’s found the time to instruct female employees [...]
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Project “Fannie Mayhem” – A Plot To Destroy Fannie Mae’s Records
January 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · breaking news
Okaaaay so it was probably just some guy who was pissed off that he got fired. But how much fun to think that Tyler Durden may have lived in the heart of this guy: The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the [...]
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Meet The New TARP, Same As The Old TARP
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · all ur bankz, bailout, fail
Obama’s crack economic team is hard at work on a cunning plan full of solid brand-new ideas to save the economy: buying some bad assets from banks and offering guarantees against losses on other bad assets. Heyyyyyyy…
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Friday Morning Roundup
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · links
- Jamie Dimon says you will nationalize JPMorgan when you pry it from his cold dead hands. – NPR suspects Dating a Banker Anonymous to be fake, restores my faith in humanity just a tiny bit. – CNBC, after crowning the ShamWOW top of the as-seen-on-TV heap, now offers us the Billy Mays Economic Indicator [...]
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