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Evidently, abject failure is a plus on some résumés

Posted by: msgruntled on: November 15, 2008

AIG now wants to hand out $500 million in deferred compensation to its executives, because, get this, they don’t want to lose these “talented” employees.

What talent exactly would that be?

So much for the “discipline of the market”

Posted by: msgruntled on: September 18, 2008

I’m not an economist. I am a working professional. And here’s my woman-in-the-street feelings on the whole mess America’s economy is in circa September, 2008: Free-market capitalism is the philosophy of the rich and greedy and it’s time to bury it.


rants about rampant stupidity, hypocrisy, bad customer service, and other annoyances that are thinning my hair out

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