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Monthly Archives: June 2014

All Hail Harry Reid

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

He just gets better with age: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Tuesday said that billionaires controlled American politics because of the lack of campaign finance laws. “I’m here because of the flood of dark money into our nation’s political system poises the greatest threat to our democracy that I have witnessed during my […]

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Scott Brown digs in

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A couple of days ago I passed on the news that Scott Brown has been exposed as the grifting front man for a grifting penny stock company. Well, that might not be fair. Scott might not be smart enough to even know he's grifting. To recapitulate: The Globe on Sunday reported the size of the […]

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Good news/Bad news

Sunday, June 1, 2014

If Joe Costello, writing here at Naked Capitalism is correct, and I suspect that he is, the oil industry may be in for a period of decline: Over the last year, some deep truths about oil and the oil industry have begun to bubble to the surface. Not necessarily that they were ever hard to […]

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Scott Brown, grifter

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Unless you read the Boston Globe you've likely missed this one about rocket scientist Scott Brown, currently carpetbagging New Hampshire: An obscure company in West Palm Beach that markets itself as a firearms manufacturer made a splashy announcement last summer: It was appointing Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator, to its advisory board. Not revealed […]

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