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Read My Rant on SEC Chairman Chris Cox at Money Hacks
Posted by billspaced in Chris Cox, Securities and Exchange Commission, airport security on September 19, 2008
Over at my companion site, Money Hacks, I’ve posted a scathing rant on the financial mess we find ourselves in and I point specifically at Chris Cox, former lawyer “free marketeer,” head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In short, part of the reason the market, and specific financial institutions in particular, has fallend so quickly is because the SEC relaxed rules or stopped enforcing existing measures that protected the market. Specifically, they apparently stopped pursuing naked short selling (which is illegal) and they stopped the uptick rule. These two things exacerbated, and some could argue — caused — the mess we’re in now and the calamitous fall of AIG, Lehman, and WaMu, to name just a few.
Read more here.
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Boobs on a Plane: How To Get Through Airport Security
Posted by billspaced in TSA, airport security, boobs, breasts on August 27, 2008
The story below is about a woman who got stopped by airport security in Oakland, California.
Apparently, underwire bras set off TSA alarms. She showed ‘em, literally (one could hope, right?)!
Security Theater: Woman Removes Bra To Get Through TSA
If you’re a large-breasted woman, when you reach the TSA checkpoint you might want to yank your bra off and toss it in a tray. Not because TSA is demanding it, but because we’d just love to see that start happening a lot.
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