Politics – Buster Collings

The Great American Bubble Machine

Buster — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:48:41 +0000

Matt Taibbi recently wrote a terrific article in Rolling Stone magazine that sheds some light on the economic bubbles we’ve been experiencing in the last decade or so. Goldman Sachs is a particular target of Matt’s article, and for good reason. These vid clips have some quick snippets behind the story, “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

California IOU’s are Dumb and Dumber

Buster — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:36:06 +0000

California’s state government is the poster child for how NOT to run a state. They’re printing up their own currency nowadays in the form of IOU’s. The smart banks are refusing to accept them.

Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Ron Paul

Buster — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:38:00 +0000

HAPPY TAX DAY!!!

RATM

Trillion, it’s the new Billion

Buster — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:31:26 +0000

have you noticed that the word “trillion” is well on it’s way to being the most used word in 2009? trillion, trillion, trillion. the word “billion” is getting tossed around a lot too lately, but poor measly “million” is slipping into the small time. i thought i was poor when a million bucks seemed like a lot of money

so here’s the clearest description i can really comprehend of how much a trillion dollars is:

if you spent one million dollars per day, it would take you over 2700 years to spend a trillion dollars.