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Comment on Goldman & Citi have Swine Flu vaccine, do you? by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:52:36 +0000

That’s why I came to this blog.

Comment on Goldman & Citi have Swine Flu vaccine, do you? by collateraldamage

collateraldamage — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:03 +0000

always good to hear from the idiocracy.

Comment on Goldman & Citi have Swine Flu vaccine, do you? by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:28 +0000

Are we supposed to be outraged that the flu shot was given to Goldman Sachs first? I don’t mind at all. They can have my dose too. Salud!

Comment on New accounting rules let bankers set the value of their own toxic assets by New reg lets banks ignore actual value of “underperforming” loans « Collateral Damage

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:27:20 +0000

[...] Some can argue that this regulation just does for commercial real estate what had already been done for home mortgages. In April, the Financial Accounting Standards Board approved a new set of rules allowing financial firms to fiddle with how big their real-estate losses are. (New accounting rules let bankers set the value of their own toxic assets) [...]

Comment on About Me/Contact by collateraldamage

collateraldamage — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:30:50 +0000

You are so totally my hero! THANK YOU!

Comment on About Me/Contact by James Payne

James Payne — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:29:17 +0000

Thanks for the bit about chinese text messaging and computer keyboards; interesting. I stumbled upon your blog while searching for info on a ‘chinese typewriter’ that I saw for sale on a California Unified School Dist. Surplus Auction website. I read that you’d dreamed of having one in your collection. Maybe you’d be able to get this one on the cheap. Thanks for the valuable random knowledge about the typewriter. Here’s the link to the auction.http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/all,ca/auction/view?auc=385593

Comment on Bank fails after taking “Jesus saves” literally by vive42

vive42 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:52:07 +0000

Damnit Jesus you were supposed to have their back on this! Stop answering the prayers of wall street executives and tend to your base, you lazy so-and-so!

Comment on HOORAY? Sub-prime mortgages “back to pre-crisis levels” by Love, the sequel « Reassembler

Love, the sequel « Reassembler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:31:11 +0000

[...] want to give a shout-out to former colleague Con Von Hoffman (yes) whose Collateral Damage blog is snarky to the max, smart and funny commentary on culture, marketing, news, you name [...]

Comment on HOORAY? Sub-prime mortgages “back to pre-crisis levels” by Erik Sherman

Erik Sherman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:35:21 +0000

People at the head of corporations and government aren’t interested in really solving problems because that would mean confronting them and taking the necessarily painful steps. They’re interested in looking as though they’re solving them because they want to remain in power, and so as attention focuses from one problem to another, the old concerns are out the window and the new ones take their places. And you don’t even hear them talking about all the derivatives based on things like unsecured credit cards, do you? There is more that’s going to hit the economy hard. Real recovery is a long way off.

Comment on Douglas Adams right again: Lack of phone sanitizers will doom planet by wendy house » phone sanitizers

wendy house » phone sanitizers — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:53:46 +0000

[...] tricky. It is a skill today’s youngsters have not had to learn. The role of phone sanitizers has also been reduced by the relative lack of phone sharing. I can’t remember the last time [...]