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• View topic - The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages. Warren oates wrote: britcom68 wrote: The File on Thelma Jodon: Paul Kelly, Ketti Frings, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober, Gertrude Hoffman. Isn't this coming via Olive Films, though? I thought that too, but all of these names are found sequentially, and it seems like the most likely explaination, if you can call guessing at phantom pages on Criterion website valid.A lot of names for The Beggar's Opera too.

The Legend of Valentino? "I've no sense of humor and if I did I'd laugh. " And yet here are all these Phantom pages listed sequentially: Franco Nero, Suzanne Pleshette, Judd Hirsch, Lesley Ann Warren, Milton Berle, Yvette Mimieux, Harold J. Going Down the Road- at last another Canadian film could join the Collection. What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria. Inequality for All | a documentary film about income inequality, public policy, and economics and features professor Robert Reich. Pay.graphic.jpg (1388×2154) “Of all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we’re surging towards even greater inequality.” : politics. Subprime mortgage crisis. The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was a set of events and conditions that were significant aspects of a financial crisis and subsequent recession that became manifestly visible in 2008. It was characterized by a rise in subprime mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures, and the resulting decline of securities backed by said mortgages.

These mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO) initially offered attractive rates of return due to the higher interest rates on the mortgages; however, the lower credit quality ultimately caused massive defaults.[1] While elements of the crisis first became more visible during 2007, several major financial institutions collapsed in September 2008, with significant disruption in the flow of credit to businesses and consumers and the onset of a severe global recession.[2] When U.S. home prices declined steeply after peaking in mid-2006, it became more difficult for borrowers to refinance their loans. U.S. Causes[edit] Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland on the One Percent's Power and Privileges. The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.

Invasion of the Home Snatchers By now, most of us know the major players. As George Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street. But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything.

The Feds vs. Wall Street's Big Win.