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Economics / accounting, first quarter earnings, Wells Fargo /

Wells Fargo Profits: Smoke and Mirrors?

April 12, 2009

I didn’t comment on this last week when the numbers were reported, but the euphoria surrounding Wells Fargo’s first quarter earnings reports seems a little naive. Short that stock. Having sat in on very similar discussions myself many years ago I can imagine to pressure at Wells to publish good earnings. After all the administration […]

Commentary / capitalism, democracy, deregulation, Reagan /

Capitalism and Democracy: An Expansion on My Rant

April 10, 2009

Having already been bashed, unfairly, for being ‘anti-capitalist’ I feel I should expand on my previous post. Before I begin, here’s a post at Simon Johnson’s blog to demonstrate that I am far from alone: The Economy and Popular Democracy – The Baseline Scenario So here’s the way I look at this: First, I happen […]

Economics / capitalism, Karl Marx /

Capitalists Can Bug Me – I Admit It!

April 10, 2009

As a committed child of the working classes, or more accurately a grandchild, nothing is more designed to get my back up than a conversation with an equally committed capitalist. Now, having traveled through ‘B’ school and the banking industry for many years I have nothing against capitalism: I believe it to be the best […]

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