John Thain + CIT= beautiful couple

My last blog made quite a stir I see. My firm loves me and again shipped me off half way around the world. I needed to blog because we were all laughing on our flight back that John Thain landed the CEO role at CIT.

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A Repeat Performance

My blog about Zerohedge plagiarizing brought a wide range of reactions. Some accused me of getting it wrong, but that was such a small percentage of our readers here. The overwhelming majority agreed with my assessment. It is clear as day that Zerohedge plagiarized Morgan Stanley in that article. You seem like you need more proof my little naysayers? Lucky for us, ZH is a serial plagiarizer and I did not have to search long or hard to find more examples of him stealing someone else’s intellectual property. Here is zerohedge’s repeat performance.

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There are 2 certainties in life: 1, don’t do this

I have not been blogging as much as I would like, but I think I have made up for my absence with this latest blog. Let me start this blog by recreating one of my favorite scenes from a movie:

Chuckie: Are we gonna have a problem here?

Clark: No, no, no, no! There's no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could be most aptly described as agrarian precapitalist.

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