Fuck Tim Geithner: Video

Kill Bernie Madoff: Video Game
After taking a vaction from the blog scene for about a week, Econocataclysm returns with the much awaited Wall Street Massacre video game!!! Well folks, it is now official: we live in a scaled-up version of Argentina with two political parties controlled by the same Wall Street financial oligarchs. The similarities are too striking to be ignored: a great economic crisis occurs, and the only thing on the minds of the politicians in Washington is making sure that their financ

The Summer Of Distraction Ends, Finally
It’s been a long, long Summer and much has happened… most of it bad. I was going to try and say something insightful about Obama’s address to Congress on health care, but why bother? The most insightful things have already been said. Truth to tell, if I hear the phrase “health care” one more goddamned fucking time I think I might just grab an AK-47 and tak

Soros Breaks With Obama: Video
“Never follow,” an old friend once told me. “Always lead by example.” And thus I intend to do. Wow, what a week. I started researching this article simply to find out what billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros’ position was on Dollar devaluation, only to find him say the following in a recent Tech Ticker interview: “I know exactly what the dollar is going to do, but I’m not at liberty to discuss it.” (At about 1:55 of the first interview vid

Obama’s Horrifying School Address: Video
Well the Right Wing is at it again, making themselves look like total idiots. This time it was a wall of crazy over Obama’s recent address to children returning to school this Fall. One old friend of mine who did psychological operations for the U.S. military recently shared with me his opinion that the Right was now falling prey to what he calls the “Boy Who Cried Wolf Effect”, which is exactly what it sounds like. To get a little more technical, when one makes promises about the