Finance Follies Weekly News

From "Murky Goings-On" in this week's Economist: WHO provided the early finance for Fininvest, the parent company of Silvio Berlusconi's business empire? Prosecutors hope to find an answer during appeal proceedings that have just begun in Palermo, in a case involving...

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Devil’s Game

  I just finished reading, and recommend, Robert Dreyfuss’s Devil’s Game. Of course I already knew that -- in the words of Cheryl Benard (RAND expert, and Zalmay Khalilzad’s wife) --  in the '80s the CIA, Saudis, and Pakistanis funded the "worst crazies" in...

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Bush Administration Traitors!

As long as the we're going after the New York Times for the evil of publishing the stories about the NSA terrorist wiretapping, terrorist bank record spying, etc., I say let's lynch the treacherous scum in the Bush White House! Get a load of this statement by some...

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