Even our mainstream media, once our fourth estate but now the abject echo chamberlain of the American warmongery, openly admit that the Libya conflict is one of the most fumble-thumbed lunacies ever to escape from the five-sided funny farm known as the Pentagon .... We ?good guys? killed more civilians during the Second World War--and did so on purpose--than the ?bad guys? did, and if you don't believe me I've got three words for you: ?Nagasaki,? ?Hiroshima? and ?Dresden. ...
Moses actually flew down to Miami and wandered around neighborhoods built with subprime loans to see how bad things were. ?He'd call me and say, 'Oh my God, this is a calamity here,'? recalls Eisman. All that was required for the BBB bonds ... He called Standard & Poor's and asked what would happen to default rates if real estate prices fell. The man at S&P couldn't say; its model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number. ?They were just assuming home ...