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What's going on – News Roundup
ecthompsonmd March 23, 2009

This roundup is brought to you by Steve Benen (friend and master blogger) of Washington Monthly. * The major indexes on Wall Street were expected to soar in light of the new Geithner plan on toxic assets. And soar they did. * On a related note, it probably helped that there was an unexpected boost in existing home sales. * Bloodshed in Baghdad: “At least 25 people were killed and 45 were injured when a man walked into a tent of mourners and detonated himself in a town north of Baghdad on Monday evening. The death toll was expected to rise,

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The Errington Thompson Show 3-14-09
ecthompsonmd March 14, 2009

What a great show. I start off discussing the confrontation between Jim Cramer of CNBC and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. I had summarized the agrument earlier in the week here. Jon Stewart invited Cramer to be on his show on Thursday and, to his credit, Jim Cramer came on the Daily Show and took his beating like a man. As I mentioned before, the problem with CNBC and the other financial networks is that they are mouthpieces for Wall Street. There is no investigative reporting. My first guest is the author of Bad Samaritans, Ha-Joon Chang, a professor of economics at Cambridge

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Don't argue with Jon Stewart. He'll hurt ya (update).
ecthompsonmd March 11, 2009

So, this argument between Jim Cramer of CNBC and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show has continued. Basically, Stewart is accusing Cramer of being a cheerleader and not an analyst and Cramer is accusing Stewart of being a moron who knows nothing about the market. One thing is certain: Stewart isn’t a moron. With Cramer popping up on Morning Joe and the Today Show, Stewart wasn’t going to let this counterattack die down without some more Judo of his own. Let me restate that I like Jon Stewart and I don’t like Cramer or most other financial shows. These shows are

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