Всем сегодня пристало посетить хотя бы одну песню потрясающего поэта, величайшего из всех бардов, певших и поющих по-русски, с благодарностью.

http://borkhers.livejournal.com/497587.html
http://gazeta.aif.ru/online/superstar/07/10_01
http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/screenwriter/sov/31494/bio/

Александр Галич:
"... И что душа? - Прошлогодний снег!
А ( Read more... )

Иосиф Бродский:
"...
и чтоб гончим не выдал
ни моим ни твоим
адрес мой - храпоидол
или твой - херувим,
на прощанье - ни звука,
только хор аонид.
Так посмертная мука
И при жизни саднит."

"Храпоидол" определённо гапакс (hapax) по отношению к всему объёму творчества Бродского.
Но что интересно, частотность этого слова - повторюсь, =1 у Бродского, равна всего ( Read more... )

Nikkei 225 lost 11 % on W, S&P 500 lost 9% HALF OF IT IN THE LAST HOUR OF TRADING DAY

VIX players did well

pseudo quote of the day:

Hank Paulson: "You bank heads will never be able to make as much money as I did when I ran Goldman! Not under our new socialist rules, except my successor Lloyd Blankfein, of course. "

After  the major index gave back the Monday gains I wrote today:
Stock Market is Going in Wrong Direction! - Not if you are short.....it ain't.
http://powerbar.livejournal.com/17838.html
But, of course, not a good for 401(k)s, some institutional investors, pensions, union funds. That reflects ( Read more... )

$400 trillion interest-rate swap market
$1 trillion "trillion-$-Obama" deficit to come
$700 billion bailout approved by Congress
$635 billion of writedowns (bad loans)
$125 billion coming direct "gov" (via taxpayers) investment in nine of the biggest banks, including Citigroup and GSG
and after all these:
(Reuters) - Wall Street had its worst day since ( Read more... )

"А вообще Еруслан (Лазаревич) происходит
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" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Obama
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. " -Bill Clinton
ok, not a big deal, really

Stock Market is Going in Wrong Direction!
- Not if you are short.....it ain't.

via freerepublic Osage Orange

"short term recovery" as my previous post says - the term is short indeed


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Intrade's political futures indicate Obama will probably pick up 364 Electoral College votes (> 270 ).

"I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans ( Read more... )

"The most frightening words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I am here to help.'"
Ronald Reagan.
(via merlin_au)