Tag Archives: Ferdinand Pecora

nash

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dave

As a postscript to the series on America in 1939: the anatomy of change. Ogden Nash was a specialist in what could be called light verse Americana that fir squarely into the canon of the The New Yorker with his … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ferdinand Pecora, Jack Morgan banker, Lya Graph midget, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ogden Nash, Pecora Commission, Senator Carter Glass, Senator Duncan Fletcher | Leave a comment

bank on it: riding the gatsby curve

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Dave

Monopoly theories of profits. State sanctioned cartels. Wring out last drop of blood, milking the last dollar. its ruling class economic-politics , closed and narrow, like minded, and they have a self-perpetuating control of the key establishments of the state. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan B. Kreuger, Canadian Asian $100 Bill, Charles Murray economist, Daron Acemoglu, Emmanuel Saez, Ferdinand Pecora, glenn greenwald, godley and Creme, James A. Robinson, Jay Rosen, John Houseman, Luigi Zingales, mark achbar, Mark Carney BOC, Martha Raddatz, Miles Corak, Noam Chomsky, Paul Camenisch, Pecora Commission, Peter R. Orszag, Ruth Simmons Brown, The Corporation documentary, Thomas Piketty, Willi Baumeister | Leave a comment

passing the buck

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dave

The equal sharing of misery? Hang the rich? The first idea is that inequality is an issue that all of us need to be concerned with.Or, it has always been there but slightly below the radar in our “to do” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carter Glass, Duncan Fletcher, Ferdinand Pecora, Hobson's Choice, james rickards, Jan Pen income parade, Lya Graf, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth, Mike Moffat, Paul Krugman, Pecora Commission, Robert Wadlow, Senator Duncan Fletcher | Leave a comment

pie in the sky: for all the marbles

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dave

It was supposed to be in the name of truth and justice.It was a dog and pony show like those found in the small circuses wandering over the English countryside at the end of the nineteenth century. It keeps coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Christie Blatchford, Ferdinand Pecora, johnny marbles, labor mp chris bryant, louise mensch, Lya Graf, news corp scandal, Pecora Commission, Rupert Murdoch, wendi deng, wendi murdoch | Leave a comment

ZOMBIE BANKS, BUBBLE BATHS & EPITAPHS

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dave

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun; In the fight that followed He laid that deputy down. Then he took to the trees and timber To live a life of shame; Every crime in Oklahoma … Continue reading →

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DEAD PEASANT CLAUSE

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Dave

”The British parliamentary tradition, which we inherited, resisted 19th-century Chartist demands for universal suffrage, based on similar fears that the elites would lose out, until they realized, to their surprise and delight, that it wouldn’t happen after all due to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Capitalism: A Love Story, Charles Lewis, Documentary films, Ferdinand Pecora, Frank Genovese, Frank Genovese Babson College, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Michael Moore, Rick Salutin, Steve Fraser | 2 Comments

Who Moved The Cheese.

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Dave

In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading →