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The ‘longest, deepest’ cuts, biggest drops and naked cowpeople

Posted on June 23, 2010 by stacyherbert| 122 Comments

Stacy Summary: So the next wave of global debt crisis appears to be sweeping through the global banking and economic systems. The last two headlines are just for chuckles, though these sort of times of financial chaos seem to bring out either the naked cowboy/girl sort of person or the Jesus / repenting sort.

Sales of new U.S. homes plunges/collapses/belly flops 33% to lowest on record
UK budget brings “the longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services spending at least since the second world war”
NY’s ‘Naked Cowgirl’, “famous for closing her act by lighting her breasts on fire” must either “stop making money off of his trademark or sign a ‘Naked Cowboy Franchise Agreement’
More than 40% of Americans believe Jesus will return by 2050

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 22 April 2009

Posted on April 22, 2009 by stacyherbert| 11 Comments

Stacy Summary: Way back in 2008, Darling & Brown bought several banks on behalf of the frightened taxpayer. They assured us there would probably be profits. Who coulda known that there would not, in fact, be any profit for the taxpayer but massive and increasing losses?

IMF says UK will face the worst losses of any industrialized nation

UK unemployment jumps to 2.1 million, public debt soars to £90 billion

BHP Billiton slashes copper output by 30 pc

Truckmaker Volvo cuts 1543 jobs

UK’s top tax rate to rise to 50%

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 21 April 2009

Posted on April 21, 2009 by stacyherbert| 11 Comments

Stacy Summary: The British Chancellor of the Exchequer hands out billions in taxpayer money to private corporations to ‘correct market prices.’ And Obama proposes to lend magical money to the IMF, the money apparently appears on no balance sheet. And while the IMF seeks to use the crisis to place more emerging economies into inescapable debt trap, American college graduates are struggling with their own legally inescapable university loans.