You’re a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001.
“Congress looked serious about finance reform — until America’s biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyists”
Another heat-seeking missile from Matt Taibbi and Rolling Stone.
Source: Rolling Stone
Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s property of Intuit — the poster-child for the last generation. What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit out of the old guys? What ever happened to that?
Jason Fried, “The next generation bends over”
He nailed it. What a disappointment to see such a positively disruptive startup in a field that needs massive disruption simply roll over and sell out. Sure, it’s possible that Intuit could do the right thing with Mint, but it’s doubtful.
Source: 37signals.com
Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.” “My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
In the final three months of last year, [AIG] lost more than $27 million every hour. That’s $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste.
Matt Taibbi, The Big Takeover
Source: Rolling Stone
