Category Archives: economy

RESCUE FROM ABOVE

February 28, 2013 – 8:47 pm

This afternoon a friend of Richie Boy walked into the diamond exchange. It was the end of the day. Kwan wasn’t wearing a suit. I had never really spoken with him. The Wall Street trader had a high opinion of himself. His clothes had been purple lapels and his cars ran faster than the State […]

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The Reefer Standard For The Dollar

January 7, 2013 – 7:21 pm

Bloomberg News’ Josh Barro congratulated GOP Representative Jerrold Nadler’s suggestion that President Barack Obama solve our ‘alleged’ debt crisis by minting a trillion-dollar coin. “I’m being absolutely serious. It sounds silly but it’s absolutely legal. And it would normally not be proper to consider such a thing, except when you’re faced with blackmail to destroy […]

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Chestnut Mare You GOP Fuckheads

December 30, 2012 – 10:36 pm

For the past months the media with the help of the GOP fuckheads have been fear-mongering about the US government falling over a fiscal cliff on January 1. 2013. On that date the Bush tax cuts will die and unemployment benefits will cease. President Obama has offered compromise after compromise to the Republican Congressional Representatives […]

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THE BEST OF DAYS by Peter Nolan Smith

October 3, 2012 – 2:57 pm

Once a month Oilcan flew out of Logan to JFK for a weekly meeting at his investment firm’s main office. Traffic from the airport on the Grand Central was lighter than the previous month, which he considered another sign of the faltering economy. No wait at the Midtown Tunnel’s tollbooths was yet another signal of […]

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It Wasn’t King Kong

August 24, 2012 – 12:13 pm

Since 9/11 murders in NYC have averaged around 500 per year and this morning a disgruntled garment worker assassinated his former boss in front of the Empire State Building. One passer-by said, “It was like CSI, but it was real.” According to the NY Daily News another eyewitness told their reporter, ““He shot the guy […]

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