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Posts Tagged ‘financial’

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE FAT CATS AND I SAID NOTHING

HOTTT Details On Obama’s New Executive Compensation Guidelines

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

That's socialism!Ok let’s see what sort of DRACONIAN MEASURES Barack Obama has proposed for our nation’s permanent underclass of persecuted corporate CEOs, whose only sin was caring so much about their companies that they continued to happily accept record pay and bonuses while their businesses lost literally billions of dollars and had to be bailed out by the government. MORE »


YOU TAKE THAT BACK NOW BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama Secretly Loved Commissions Before He Hated Them

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Oh flippeter floppeter! Remember how Barack Obama made so much fun of John McCain for wanting to form a “9/11 Commission” to investigate the terrorist financial bomb that hit Wall Street this weekend so that the commission could, in a year or two, make a bunch of recommendations for everyone to ignore? Well it turns out that Obama used to love commissions and voted in favor of a number of them over the years, so now he will be found guilty of treason and banished to outer space to count rats forever. [YouTube via Instapundit]


WALL STREET MASSACRE

Liveblogging President Bush’s Exciting State-Of-The-Market Press Conference!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

NOM NOM NOMOh, so our president is giving a press conference, talkin’ about the economies and offshore drilling and such? It’s a slowish news day, so we might as well liveblog this dealy. Fix yourself a triple Wonkettini and join us after the jump for whatever jokes we can muster about the limp Dow, and smacking Fannie into a state of renewed arousal. MORE »