tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post3937495136138046244..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, April 14 2008: Marked down as deadIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52808459437561658462008-04-14T20:40:00.000-04:002008-04-14T20:40:00.000-04:00I am laughing quite hard at the Fannie & Freddie "...I am laughing quite hard at the Fannie & Freddie "tough guy" stance. What does your credit score matter when you can get a house for a dollar on the courthouse steps as long as you pay the taxes on it?<BR/><BR/> Those people think the FICO matters ... when there is no lender that particular bit of leverage is useless.<BR/><BR/> All of these tools at their disposal predicated on things being the.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03915219261001181341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44434905616300298802008-04-14T20:36:00.000-04:002008-04-14T20:36:00.000-04:00urk. 1929 is the year I meant to type :-(urk. 1929 is the year I meant to type :-(.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03915219261001181341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17588448850101113902008-04-14T20:35:00.000-04:002008-04-14T20:35:00.000-04:00I suppose it's too blurry for front page duty, but...I suppose it's too blurry for front page duty, but that is grandma Anna, grandpa Purl, aunt Barbara, and aunt Rosie safe in grandma's tummy, circa 1936, standing in front of the clapboard sided log cabin where my father was born in `919, near 43 05' north 94 42' west.<BR/><BR/>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2415021084_45930300b8.jpg.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03915219261001181341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44921776287541646952008-04-14T19:55:00.000-04:002008-04-14T19:55:00.000-04:00Financial Coup Accomplished!The result is even mor...Financial Coup Accomplished!<BR/><BR/>The result is even more power for the same bunch that have intentionally made such a mess of it for everyone else already. Crime pays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55469690772040605242008-04-14T19:08:00.000-04:002008-04-14T19:08:00.000-04:00CR,I think the man with the wonderful name (who un...CR,<BR/><BR/>I think the man with the wonderful name (who unfortunately looks like a chewed-up Domino's pizza) may have had a moment of sincerity there. I don't know him, I must admit, but he's old enough to not care as much about his words as a young go-getter.<BR/><BR/>Hard to call, though. Italian politics is as fcuked up as Washogtown, the links between Prodi and the KGB are chilling, and hisIlargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69737745645325334712008-04-14T18:23:00.000-04:002008-04-14T18:23:00.000-04:00Love the B&W photos ilargi, they are so Californi...Love the B&W photos ilargi, they are so <I> California Dreaming</I> ... 1930's style of course.<BR/><BR/><I> And Italian Finance Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa warned ... <BR/> "If we think that solving or emerging from the crisis means going back to the configuration of growth before the crisis, we would be making a mistake because we were on an unsustainable path," he told The Financial Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41629362083586152272008-04-14T15:00:00.000-04:002008-04-14T15:00:00.000-04:00the Oil Drum is fine for articles, as good as if n...the Oil Drum is fine for articles, as good as if not better than ever.<BR/><BR/>the comments section is perfectly useless, however, so I ignore it (except for the few oldtimers like rapier and brown).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4813962621572616842008-04-14T14:45:00.000-04:002008-04-14T14:45:00.000-04:00TOD has been up everytime I look at it, including ...TOD has been up everytime I look at it, including right now. Coincidentally (or not), the lead headline in today's drumbeat is the same as the lead headline in today's Debt Rattle. <BR/><BR/>TOD has acquired, of late, what unfortunately seems to happen to most sites after a few successful years and high volume on the internet. The authors/contributors, after years of having to defend factual Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02751451454904827924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81570819116481664682008-04-14T11:37:00.000-04:002008-04-14T11:37:00.000-04:00Just out of curiosity; do either one of you know o...Just out of curiosity; do either one of you know or have heard on the grapevine, what's going on over at TOD? I haven't been able to access it for three days now.<BR/>TNA <BR/><BR/>The old hermitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com