Occupy Wall St/Boston

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion

It would indeed be awesome if there were no economy, no businesses, no money, none of those awful employed people, if each person could just go and mug anyone with a dollar more than he himself has in order to "even things out," etc. But then we'd be living in John Lennon's "Imagine."
 
Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion

I don't think anyone's making that argument, Itchy. There is a legitimate criticism to be made about luxury condos, as to whether they provide much benefit to the city. I believe that they do, not only by enhancing the skyline, but also by increasing the value of the tax base. But I also would argue that an office tower does more for the city.

Anyway, I agree with you that it's not really topical for this thread, but if you are going to discuss it, I don't think broad generalizations are helpful.
 
Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion

Henry, I and others have asked that people not turn a thread about a particular building into a drop-site for political talking points. Pierce and jass then persisted with that line of rhetoric. Once they did so, I responded.

If you want to lecture to violators of this thread's topical integrity, I would point you to Pierce and jass.
 
Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion

Pierce's post was a response to Whigh's ("6 paragraph") post, which came after Data agreed that the last (single, arguably innocuous, tongue-in-cheek) sentence of his post was probably off topic.

Jass simply opines that what a building contains may be relevant to the discussion.

You have done your own part in keeping the political discussion alive. "This needs to stop, but first let me have the last word!"

Maybe you should stop pointing fingers.
 
Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion

itchy said:
If you want to lecture to violators of this thread's topical integrity, I would point you to Pierce and jass.
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What I said was that PBS building would probably interact better with the street than an insurance building.

Thats not controversial. And even if it was controversial, how is it not relevant?


Discussing my preference over the tenant/owner of a building is not relevant to the thread...?

In what world?



Your ridiculous strawman army isnt helping. Combined with your "dont discuss things I personally dont like to read!" posts just shits up the thread.
 
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"The REAL Elephant in the room--the Global Casino


Any bailout of the European countries/ banks is a mere bandaid.

The real elephant in the room is the global casino of derivatives--weapons of mass destruction. MF Global--just a trial run?

The current exposure of well known banks cited in trillions of dollars is:

BNY--------------------------1.375
State Street-----------------1.390
Morgan Stanley---------------1.722
Wells Fargo------------------3.352
HSBC-------------------------4.321
Goldman Sachs---------------44.192
Bank of America-------------50.135
Citibank--------------------52.102
JP Morgan and Chase---------70.151

for a visual understanding of how much this is and what too big to fail means

see:http://demonocracy.info/infographics..._exposure.html

bwt "

I copied this off a website I usually blog on. Hopefully you can link on to the website its pretty interesting.
 
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