2009: A Resurgence of Eugenics?

Old-Thinker News | Feb. 3, 2009
By Daniel Taylor
As the world moves further into economic chaos, eugenics, an old idea cloaked under modern terminology, is making a comeback. During these times it is easy to see how a resurgence and re-packaging of eugenics could come about. Do you have more than two children? Your carbon footprint [...]

Mexican drug lord makes Forbes’ billionaire list

This guy must be hiding his cash somewhere. Maybe he has 14 Billion Pesos stuffed under his mattress… 
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) – What do software mogul Bill Gates and banking investor Warren Buffett have in common with wanted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera?

 

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, pictured in 1993, ranks 701th on [...]

Visualizing One Trillion Dollars

by WallStats.com on 3/12/2009

It’s official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all.

One trillion dollars; it’s a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end would reach the sun or you spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years or one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778 Argentinosauruses (the largest known dinosaur). Fanciful as this may be, the real story behind one trillion dollars is in its economic impact. Let’s investigate what one trillion dollars can do.

Jon Stewart exposes Apple stock manipulation

By Prince McLean
Published: 03:00 PM EST

Proving once again that the best way to reach Americans’ brain is through their funny bone, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show continued his warpath aimed at irresponsible financial reporting by CNBC, specifically calling Jim Cramer out for his comments on how easy it was to profit from misinformation aimed at Apple.

Calling it “disingenuous [...]

Stewart to Cramer: ‘It’s not a f**king game’

JAKE COYLEAP NewsMar 13, 2009 06:06 EST
Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on “The Daily Show,” repeatedly chastising the “Mad Money” host for putting entertainment above journalism.
“I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it’s not a … game,” Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive [...]