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WashingtonPost.com – Anatomy Of A Crisis
Very good slide show that shows how the financial crisis happened.

I can accept that a woman wants to make an aggressive effort towards finding a mate.  The dating game is way different than it used to be.  Now you can setup dates with a few taps of the keyboard and a few mouse clicks.  As this web site shows, this woman has different plans.  She’s [...]

Ratings agencies ‘put system at risk,’ CEO says
Now that some of the smoke is clearing on our financial crisis, the real players are starting to appear.  We used to hear about companies like Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch Ratings when people would talk about the value grade of investments.  It’s starting to become very [...]

Copper is certainly not considered to have the same prestige as say gold or silver, but to those who rely on this metal it can be as important as those two precious metals.  The prices for copper had skyrocketed for some time as evidenced below.

Something to consider:
“Copper is usually a good gauge of economic health [...]

MSNBC.com – Who’s To Blame?
Nice interactive guide to the reasons why we have such a financial mess.  Some are obvious, but a few were surprises to me.  Each reason is justified.  A lot of fraud, major conflicts of interest, laxity – need I go further?

Local 2 Investigates Dead Voters
Wow…I didn’t realize that we were allowing the deceased to vote post mortem.  Makes me wonder what happened to all the cries for voting reform in this country.  Very simple concept: if someone becomes deceased, they should not be allowed to vote.  This was also a pretty telling quote:
Auditors identified 49,049 [...]