Category Archives: business

Big Insurer’s Spending Habits Disclosed – NYTimes.com

By theFewture | Published: October 7, 2008
This article in the NYTimes makes me absolutely sick. I keep hearing people talking about a tax revolt. Now I understand why. Big Insurer’s Spending Habits Disclosed - NYTimes.com: "A week after the insurance giant, the American International Group, received an $85 billion federal bailout, its life insurance subsidiary, AIG General, held a weeklong retreat for [...]
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Wall Street, Greed, and our Idiocracy

By theFewture | Published: September 30, 2008
I've had credit crunches in my life. I called it 'grad school.' My friends and family bailed me out. The banks certainly didn't. In my honest opinion, I believe this whole situation could have been avoided if the banks had allowed people to readjust their mortgages to allow them to keep their homes if they were [...]
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Save the Economy

By theFewture | Published: September 25, 2008
Save the Economy is a really funny thing someone threw up. But it got me thinking, what if this bail-out was indeed done by people offering micro-loans in the amount and manner of their choosing, with a high rate of interest return. You know, like Kiva for our country.
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