The Chicago Tribune officially and kindly asks that you lay off the geniuses at AIG who just blew up the world and their just compensation for being much smarter than you.
Tag: Economics
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Should have insured that planet before it crashed
The Obama administration seems to have explored all its legal avenues for getting that AIG bonus money back in about 24 hours. AIG meanwhile asks that we not make them blow up the world.
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Code of the streets, owners who creep
Obama says he’ll get those AIG bonuses back – provided, y’know, that pirate ship hasn’t already sailed.
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A right to be hostile
I hope you have some populist outrage left in you after the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer entertainment/lion-feeding/distraction, because AIG would like more of your money today.
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What Jon Stewart and Rick Santelli are really fighting about
The terrifying disaster behind the amusing Jon Stewart – Rick Santelli – CNBC feud.
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I dreamt of a house, haunted by all you tweakers with your hands out*
As foreclosure sweeps Chicagoland, expect more stories about party-house terror.
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Bet you Jed Clampett wants his money back
In case you were worried that the elections changed the Tribune editorial board – don’t be.
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Good news for midwestern hippies
Langerado and Pemberton are giving 2009 a miss, but the Rothbury festival is coming back.
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Say it with me: “We’re nowhere near a bottom in housing”
Chicago housing prices are on the skids, and the bottom is likely a ways off.
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Inauguration: So… what now?
Inauguration: Or, more accurately, stuff about after the inauguration for people like me who are maybe burned out after too much “history”
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Depends on what you mean by “one president at a time”
The president-elect moves quickly to save the economy from the still-president.