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Adios, CitiBank

CitiBank’s stock price revisited the level at which a massive secondary was issued in late 2009 ($3:15). The secondary was issued so that they can get out of TARP and issue bonuses. Now it recovered some. Is Citibank in trouble again? The following is via Seeking Alpha: Seen on a recent Citibank (C) statement: “Effective […]





Read Kindle Books on Your BlackBerry

Get the best reading experience available on your BlackBerry. No Kindle required. Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you. Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible mobile device




Air Video Can Stream Videos to Your iPhone and iPod Touch

Automated server discovery on local network using Apple Bonjour Possibility to add custom servers by specifying IP address and port directly Can be used to stream videos over internet (see the appropriate section in FAQ) Share disk folders and iTunes playlists Optional password protection Add videos to iTunes playlist from iPhone Videos that can not […]


Citibank didn’t have Enough

Citibank neither had enough, nor do they think that they gave us, the citizens enough of their crap. In the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-1995 CitiBank should have gone kaput. Thanks to Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Rubin and Alan Greenspan, Mexico was bailed out. The bailout gave a respite to the Orange County, CA pension fund […]




సామద పుష్పంద యద ఝంకారములు కావు- Sahityam

Wanted to share this beautiful poem , please comment on the meaning of the poem and the audience. సామద పుష్పంద యద ఝంకారములు కావు భీష కుమ్భేంద్ర  బృంహితములు వాయువునిర్గత పద్మ వరనేవులు కావు తురవ నికరము తో ధుత్రజనము లాకీర్ణ జల తరంగ సరములు కావు ఆహాత్రు ధనుర్ముఖ్త శత్రు కమల కలహాల కుసుమ కన్య నీవేద రానా రంగమున మెడ వొట్టు వేగము వలదు  వలదు



How Government Benevolence Contributes to Teenage Unemployment

Teenage unemployment is at 25.5%, an all time high since government started tracking these numbers in 1948. An estimated 1.64 million kids between ages 16 – 19 are unable to find jobs. Does government benevolence contribute to high rate of teenage unemployment? Before going into the role of government as a contributing factor for teenage […]