Our financial system is crumbling this week.

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cpebbles wrote:If you want to spend $1300 a month bribing god, go ahead.
Ah, there we go. Just wanted to make sure.

That's an interesting (and offensive) way to characterize it.

Edit - Also, they weren't "claiming poverty." Might want to read the article again.

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Freed Roger wrote:Now Emerson Electric has a memo doing the same. I sense a growing discord against A-B Inbev.
Did anyone else know that the Ridgid company was a division of Emerson? Somehow I was completely oblivious that until a few days ago when I looked at the tag on a chop saw.

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Leroy wrote:They should stop giving to the church because they are going to hell for being rich anyway.
I think they're hoping a camel can squeeze through the eye of a needle.

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New Pagodi wrote:I looked at the tag on a chop saw.
We should hang out.

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The conflict potentially puts August Busch III in an awkward position as well. Busch, CEO of Anheuser-Busch for more than two decades, is on the Emerson board of directors. Another former A-B director, Carlos Fernandez, also is on Emerson's board. Fernandez is CEO of Grupo Modelo, one of the brewers deemed acceptable under Emerson's new policy.

Meanwhile, Anheuser-Busch issued a challenge to Emerson executives.

"As leaders in the St. Louis community, we will continue our commitment and would expect that Emerson would do the same," Peacock said. "We hope Emerson will join us in committing $2 million to the St. Louis United Way, as we committed to months ago after the (InBev) transaction closed."

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Freddie-M ... 96540.html
David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide.

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:-s

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A very good summation of the current situation in my opinion. EMA= exponential moving average.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/136685- ... olved-soon

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Amazing:
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Arthur Dent wrote:Amazing:
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Bureaucracy at its finest.

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