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Ben Stein's comments on Goldman Sach's role in the CDO mess; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/02every.html?em&ex=1196917200&en=4549799c0aaca324&ei=5087%0A

<p>happy hours can be good too - you bring your friends, and your friends from work bring their friends, and so on... and so on... and no explicit pressure to buy drinks... but probably hard with a kid. i do think there are advantages to just getting out and doing things you would want to do...

<p>Graphrix &TS: </p> <p>Thanks for posting the Fidelity, etc sites. Wondering if you have suggestions for national sites, since you don't seem to like RealtyTrac.</p> <p>I ask because I work for a municipality in TX and our current subscription to RoddyReport is expired. We use the...

<p>Dollar Daze: Investing With a Weak Currency Greenback's Slide Prompts Many to Seek Foreign Refuge; Still Vulnerable to Bad Picks <a...

<strong>Are we headed for an epic bear market?</strong> The credit bubble is just starting to unwind, a credit-derivative insider says. And while U.S. borrowers are being blamed for the mess, they were really just pawns in a global game. <a...

<p>So what happens when banks go belly up? if FDIC insured, depositors are covered up to around 100K, right? I was too young to pay much attention to the S&L crisis...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.eshirts.com/">http://www.eshirts.com/</a> does the same as cafepress - people order your design in whatever color/size/style they want, and you get a cut.</p>

several banks offer higher interest rates for online-only savings accounts. WaMu offers 5.00%, but it has to be linked to a WaMu free checking account. $300 minimum to avoid the $4/mo fee for the savings. They also offer a 5.00% 6-mo CD. Several other banks offer something around 5% - ING...

<p>On the macroeconomic picture:</p> <p>The Economist Intelligence Unit briefing: Heading for the Rocks: a special report on the turmoil in the world's financial markets <a...

<p>Bush's mortgage bailout just might work: If insider buying is any indication, home builders and financial-services providers expect dramatic reversals of fortune in the coming months <a...

<p>if he weren't pushing so hard bor above-average returns... it's that blood-from-a-turnip thing... I hear you get get much more from poor people with payday loans. </p> <p>My co-worker thinks the next thing financial co's will inflate is student loans...</p>

I've seen a few new houses in minty green...

<p>WoeIsMe - reference RE the mystery trader who made an enormous bet that stocks would fall by 1/3 in Sept... debunks some conspiracies...</p> <p align="left"><a...