Activity Summary

First Buzzer: 41
Buzzed Up: 98
Buzzed Down: 13
Comments: 1,605

Boris D commented on this! - 5 hours ago

Initial Jobless Claims Rise to 480,000

- thestreet.com
“Isn't Obama gonna take credit for this too, or just when it's "not as bad as expected"? The last time when it went from 10.2% to 10%, those figures were false. You probably didn't here about the correction. I thought he has "created or saved" a… ”
1 Vote
Boris D buzzed this up! - 5 hours ago

Initial Jobless Claims Rise to 480,000

- thestreet.com
1 Vote
Boris D commented on this! - 14 hours ago

Citi to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (AP)

- Yahoo! Finance
“"We want our borrowers to have a much less stressful time, to spend their time with their families during the holidays as opposed to worrying about their homes" Aww, how nice. Can you suspend my credit card bills too? Or at least your 29.9%… ”
23 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 16 hours ago

Citi to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (AP)

- Yahoo! Finance
“From 1999... Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to… ”
23 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 16 hours ago

Citi to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (AP)

- Yahoo! Finance
“In 2005, Senator Obama threatened to filibuster a bill that would have regulated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and prevented the whole housing crisis that put us in this terrible economy. ”
23 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 16 hours ago

Citi to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (AP)

- Yahoo! Finance
“Of course, after the holidays they will have to foreclose twice as fast to make up for that lost time. It's so nice of them to wait until those people go further into debt with the holidays. Merry Christmas!! Happy New Year!! Now get out. ”
23 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 17 hours ago

Citi to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (AP)

- Yahoo! Finance
“They were gonna foreclose on 133 houses each day? Wow, the economy is really back "from the brink" huh? If you want the truth about why the housing market tanked, Buzz up this New York Times story from 1999... Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid… ”
23 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 18 hours ago

High and lows: Bernanke honored then denounced (AP)

- Yahoo! News
“Bernanke's objective seems to be to turn our dollar into toilet paper. The stimulus hasn't stimulated squat. We are not better off because they are printing all of this monopoly money, we are gonna be much worse off. Just as FDR's policies… ”
261 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 19 hours ago

Democrats Lash Out At Obama Over Health Care Disappointments

- Huffington Post
“Ummm.. you do know that teabagger is a gay slur right? Hypocrite. ”
243 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 19 hours ago

AP-GfK Poll: Gains for Obama, not his Afghan plans (AP)

- Yahoo! News
“If you believe this poll you might also believe this little nugget ... "The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and… ”
715 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 20 hours ago

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

- nytimes.com
“In 2005, Senator Obama threatened to filibuster a bill that would have regulated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and prevented the whole banking crisis that put us in this terrible economy. ”
4 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 20 hours ago

Democrat Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll

- Wall Street Journal
“Could it be because they support redistributionist socialism over Capitalism? Could it be because instead of listening to their constituents they "go to Andy Stern and the SEIU" to be told how to vote? ”
68 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 20 hours ago

High and lows: Bernanke honored then denounced (AP)

- Yahoo! News
“Bernie Sanders? Republicans and Bernie agree on something? Bernie Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist. He is the first person elected to the U.S. Senate to identify as a socialist, although the difference between that and most… ”
261 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 20 hours ago

High and lows: Bernanke honored then denounced (AP)

- Yahoo! News
“"He (Bernanke) knew how the passive Fed of the 1930s helped create the calamity — through its stubborn refusal to expand the money supply." Actually the fed reduced the money supply just before the stocks crashed which was a major cause of the… ”
261 Votes
Boris D commented on this! - 20 hours ago

High and lows: Bernanke honored then denounced (AP)

- Yahoo! News
“"But Bernanke also knows the economy would be much, much worse if the Fed had not taken such extreme measures to stop the panic." Can we stop these false statements that they saved us from the "brink"? We are going to be worse off because of what… ”
261 Votes