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smartmuffin commented on an article. 10:55 AM

Cyprus' Unprecedented Bailout: More Common Than You Think

I can't decide whether to laugh at the fact that Morgan is defending this blatant and unapologetic theft of private funds by the Cyprus government...

or laugh that Morgan is actually acknowledging that the only

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 11:16 PM

Scorched-Earth Policy Could Fry Portfolios

" Take defense contractors, many of which are publicly traded. The federal government pays out $500 billion every year to such firms, and contractors represent 7.5 million workers."

Let me get this

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 10:08 PM

The Sequester, and How Not to Solve a Budget Problem

"and almost everyone thinks it's a bad idea"

This is a blatant lie. Almost every POLITICIAN thinks it's a bad idea. The American people, as a whole, are split roughly 50/50 on this.

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 2:02 PM

Diving Into More Clean Harbors

Wouldn't owning this stock basically put you in the position of rooting for more environmental disasters to happen?

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 1:39 PM

Don't Blame the Fed for Your Own Investment Mistakes

Can I still blame them for intentionally inflating the housing bubble? What about causing the business cycle? How about the fact that the dollar has declined in value by 97%?

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 1:37 PM

Want a Job? Go to School.

"^ That makes a car loan safer for the lender. We're talking about value for the borrower. "

Oh, but the ability to escape the loan payments by having the car repossessed DOES in fact provide value to

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 1:29 PM

The Next Bank Bailout, And Why It's (Sort of) Different This Time

"With no other source of increasing income the future and former employees of Goldman Sachs are now advising us to cut back on services to the most vulnerable populations in order to funnel that money to investors."

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smartmuffin commented on an article. 3:40 PM

Want a Job? Go to School.

Not to be Captain Obvious here, but the reason you wouldn't compare a student loan to a car loan is that a car loan is a secured loan. If someone defaults, you repossess the car. You can't repossess an education. This is why all the

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