Category Archives: Wall Street

Change…True

October 26, 2008 – 10:06 am

Shout out to Jycorri and the big homie, Ryan for this one. Filmmaker Charles Stone III (Paid In Full, Drumline and Mr. 3000), most notably known for the Budweiser True ad campaign, a.k.a. “Whasssuuuppp” TV commercials in 2000, is back with a redux of that classic spoof – just in time for Election Day.
Stone is [...]

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Shock And Awe

October 25, 2008 – 8:04 am

Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, Alan Greenspan in his testimony before Congress this past Thursday said: “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity — myself especially — are in a state of shocked disbelief…” Age must be a truth serum, because here Greenspan exposes the [...]

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Oil Is Down, But Other Prices Are Stable

October 20, 2008 – 3:00 pm

We’ve all seen the price of a barrel of oil plummet over the last few weeks to half of what is was in the summer, now $70-$75. While gas prices at the pump have gone down by a lot too, roughly 29% since July, that’s still not half (-50%) to match the decline in a [...]

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Shrinking ‘Play Dough’

October 13, 2008 – 2:28 pm

When we say everything has or will be affected, we mean everything. Yesterday morning, I watched an intriguing segment on ESPN’s Outside The Lines, which examined the impact on the failing economy on the sports – and the prognosis is not good. Sports and entertainment have long been seen as industries that seem not [...]

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Wall Street Tumbles After Bailout

October 7, 2008 – 10:37 am

Sure – one can say that it would’ve been worse had we not voted for a bailout. I say – bullsh*t. We’ve basically spent a tenth of our national debt (including AIG and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac) for nothing. The stupid part about all of this sh*t is that lawmakers have been saying that [...]

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