3/10/2008
9 hours ago
...New York's main contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, soared over 107 dollars a barrel for the first time and then crossed 108 dollars, striking an all-time high of 108.21 dollars...
Economic woes lead to retail retrenchment
3/10/2008
Amid belt-tightening, many chain stores are struggling
Spitzer scandal stuns Wall Street
By Nick Godt, MarketWatch
Last update: 5:51 p.m. EDT March 10, 2008
One question hanging is governor's involvement in bond-insurer bailout
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Many on Wall Street were stunned and some apparently were pleased by a Monday report linking New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to prostitution, while stocks showed little immediate reaction.
Oh puhleeeeeze, if they were stunned why is this the first sentence in the article?
"Lots of people on Wall Street didn't like him because he went after certain people -- heads of firms, analysts and [former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard] Grasso," said Donald Selkin, head of equity at Joseph Stephens.
Anybody see Juno? When she goes into labor she sputters "Fuckity Fuckity Fuckity!"
This country is imploding, & most of the world is doing the golf clap.
Why?
Maybe we don't know enough of our own history?
Sorrows of Empire
Killing Hope
The Shock Doctrine
American Theocracy
Or maybe we just had our turn, eh?
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