A healthy dose of skepticism and distrust fences away being a patsy..

" Andrew Ross Sorkin revealed that Paulson had met with the entire board of Goldman Sachs in a Moscow hotel suite for an hour at the end of June 2008. He told them his views of the US and global economies, he previewed a market-moving speech he was about to give, and he even talked about the possibility that Lehman Brothers might blow up. Maybe it’s not so surprising that Goldman Sachs turned out to be so well positioned when Lehman did indeed do just that a few months later."

Congressional Insider Trading

" In the past few years awhole new totally unregulated, $100 million dollar industry has grown up in Washington calledpolitical intelligence. It employs former congressmen and former staffers to scour the halls of theCapitol gathering valuable non-public information then selling it to hedge funds and traders onWall Street who can trade on it."

Now who are the terrorists?

"SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on.

They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment."

Jim Rogers...

5:40 "America cannot quintuple it's debt again, the UK cannot sextuple it's debt again.... they've shot their wad"

Jim Rogers toying with and putting a flame under some analysts..