Blogs Posts on "Financialcrisis"

History Repeating: In Goldman Sachs We Cannot Trust... by VioletPlanet on Nov 4, 2009GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS PRINCIPLES ( # 5 of 10)"We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do. While recognizing that the old way may still be the best way, we constantly strive to find a better solution to a client's problems. We pride our...

Sociopathic Kings, Queens & Lords: Wealth Is Proof Of Goodness... by VioletPlanet on Jul 29, 2009The Wall Street Journal reported last week that:"Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the US... Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total US pay in 20...

The Power Elite: Permanent War & Corporations = Mythical Peace... by VioletPlanet on Jun 8, 2009"Non est potestas Super Terram quae Comparetur ei" (There is no power on earth to be compared to him), - Verse: Book of Job, Holy Bible.How can we empower "the people" if "the people" have so little power...to empower themselves? -VioletPlanet (20...

Moral Nihilism, Sadism & The Rise Of The Schizoid Machines... by VioletPlanet on Mar 25, 2009The values that sustain an open society have been crushed.A university, as John Ralston Saul writes, now "actively seeks students who suffer from the appropriate imbalance and then sets out to exaggerate it. Imagination, creativity, moral balance, kn...

Evildoers & The Authors of Our Misery: Financial Industry Lobbyists... by VioletPlanet on Mar 23, 2009The popular urge to claw back the bogus bonuses paid by American International Group is irresistible and fully justified, but should the Treasury someday retrieve every single bonus dollar, that total of $165 million will make no difference to anyone...

Truth Or Consequences: An Insatiable Appetite For Wealth... by VioletPlanet on Mar 17, 2009“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city’s boundaries like enemy territory, and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place-name appeare...

The American Theory Of Life: A Crisis Of Belief... by VioletPlanet on Mar 2, 2009"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby, 1925).In the fall of 1933, Sherwood Anderson left his home in New York City and set out on a series of journeys that would take...

11 Reasons Why Bernard Madoff aka "The Swindler" Is America's Unconscious Superhero by VioletPlanet on Feb 25, 2009“In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules.” -Bernard Madoff (2007).The Inadvertent Hand of Justice:While it is understandable that the super-rich and wealthy, who have lost a large portion of their retire...