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Bill Gross' Latest Target: Bill Gross

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Having fired a shot across Carl iCahn's bow yesterday, PIMCO's Bill Gross has a new target - once again talking his book...

Perhaps more Americans should spend more time that way... instead of watching every tick in AMZN and dreaming of retirement...

 

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Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:19 | 4089909 williambanzai7
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Gross: I didn't mean to insult you Carl. Which way do you prefer? 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:22 | 4089917 tbone654
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dream of working at AMAZON more like it...

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:26 | 4089937 hedgeless_horseman
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Bill Gates should have spent time working on Windows Mobile. That would have been a real legacy.  Anyone can give money away.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:28 | 4089949 Dr. Engali
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By working on Windows mobile you really mean stealing it.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:31 | 4089952 hedgeless_horseman
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...stealing it.

220...221...whatever it takes.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:54 | 4090055 cocoablini
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When you invest in US bonds now, you see your own mortality .Doom. meanwhile Carl ICahn is making a fortune frontrunning his own insidertrading

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:13 | 4090111 NotApplicable
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Why is TIME in all caps? Is it an acronym I'm not aware of?

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:17 | 4090124 astoriajoe
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Time, as in, not money.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:33 | 4090180 Bullionaire
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"...like Bill Gates."

 

Sterilizing all "third world" inhabitants, one vaccination at a TIME.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:57 | 4090239 Manthong
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A paragon of common sense, simplicity and elegance..

Like Windows code

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680403/this-is-what-a-toilet-looks-like-when-bill-gates-is-involved

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 14:02 | 4090734 knukles
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Talk about loosing one's audience, making enemies, sounding Princely.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 14:18 | 4090805 Anusocracy
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Bill Gates is a fabulously rich bucket of shit.

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 00:04 | 4092289 All Risk No Reward
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
~Malcolm X

Hi Gross, thanks fgor giving me the opportunity to expose the criminal Bill Gates and smack him so hard all your slobber will fly off Gates...

Bill Gates wants to kill off your grandma is willing to appeal to the greed of teachers to do it...

Bill Gates: End-of-Life Care vs. Saving Teachers' Jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MZG9vK0W8

Bill Gates uses global warming hoax to drive worldwide poverty and or mass death (excluding himself and his club, though)

BILL GATES EXPOSING DEPOPULATION PLANS OF AGENDA 21 ON LIVE SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3WXcRfsrTQ

"Innovating to zero."  Note that when Gates lies and says we have to get to zero to "save the planet" he has a picture of people in the background...  guess what he wants to get near zero?  What is that hypocrite's carbon footprint?

Bill Gates paralyzes 10s of thousands of children with his alleged "vaccines"

Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis
http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-and-47500-cases-of-paralysis/

For those people who want to look at charts that show:

1. About 80% of disease related deaths disappeared before vaccine were even introduced.  The major contributor to disease deaths IS NOT VACCINATION!

2. When vaccines were introduced, the already well established downward trajectory of disease deaths typically didn't budge - and sometimes even went up significantly!

Graphic Reality: The Charting of Truth Graphic Reality: The Charting of Truth Graphic Reality: The Charting of Truth Graphic Reality: The Charting of Truth

Graphic Reality: The Charting of Truth
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/10/29/graphic-reality-the-chartin...

There is a link to the graphs in the article, but in case people miss it, they can find the PDF of graphs here:

http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/media/Obamsawin_Vaccination_Tables.pdf

One last point - some vaccine free diseases like Scarlett Fever (it killed President Eisenhower's son!) disappeared at similar rate to diseases with vaccines - both before AND AFTER the vaccine was introduced.

Gross, I bet Buffett is a little dry - he could probably use some slobber himself for being such a good tax paying citizen.

Report: Buffett's Berkshire Owes $1 Billion In Back Taxes
http://www.newsmax.com/headline/buffett-irs-back-taxes/2011/09/01/id/409520#ixzz2inHCQTPv

While all this is Machiavellian evil, including Gross's gross slobbering of such an evil, wicked man, the kicker is bigger than all of the above.

Bill Gates and Bill Gross are two major figures in the debt money system that guarantees their immense monetary wealth is someone else's inextinguishable debt because their money is required to pay off the debts that created their monetary wealth.

When Money is debt, somone's wealth is anothe person's debt servitude.

Consequences of Fractional Reserve Banking 2) - Poverty - Debt is not a choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQc0rLdB-E

Consider the implications of this - money is a zero sum game, BY DEFINITION.  The monetary balance sheet MUST BALANCE.  One person's monetary asset is someone else's monetary liability BY DEFINITION.

Consider what a bailout does to society...  society gets the INEXTINGUISHABLE DEBT while the connected insiders GET THE BAILOUT MONEY THAT SOCIETY NEEDS TO PAY OFF THE DEBT CREATED TO ISSUE THE BAILOUT MONEY.

Society gets 100% of the INEXTINGUISHABLE DEBT, the supra-national banking cartel that promoted both Gates and Gross gets the proceeds and also CONTROL OVER A FRAUDULENTLY BANKRUPTED SOCIETY.

This is EVIL INCARNATE, but all according to plan.

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.”
~Henry Ford

Now the kicker...  debt money 's inextinguishable debt is the #1 cause of poverty and poverty is the #1 cause of death, MURDERING over 20 million people per year.

The kicker is that these banksters who Gates and Gross choose to serve run nation states like Hitler ran ghettos...  put an enforcer in charge, deny them resources and the poverty and death will follow.

Netflix "A Film Unfinished" followed by "Empire in Africa" to an insight into how similar these two programs actually are.

Oh, and about targeting minority children for abortion....  and forcing GMO food's onto children in school...  and perverting education into operant conditioning training...

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:04 | 4090082 Oh regional Indian
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Sorry big bill, only one bill can be in charge of ghe glibal depopulation agenda, not two. Find your own evil task to fulfill. Paragons my leff toe! Vile humans is much more like it.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:40 | 4089980 Chump
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Not a single one of my data collectors works with that POS.  Just take me to the folder please, don't sync, don't configure a thing.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:44 | 4090010 Chump
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Oh and here's your obligatory exposure to some cracker culture on this beautiful Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0C_uivYf8M

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:53 | 4090041 hedgeless_horseman
Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:56 | 4090061 Chump
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You have good taste.  I'm nowhere near being able to play out of E like that (not that I'd ever come close to Fleck-level anyway).  Cheers.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:27 | 4089947 Hippocratic Oaf
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Maybe he should work at getting PCI pumped up so I can bail.

Piece of shit.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:51 | 4090043 Ruffcut
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Fuck bill gross, bill gates and all the rest of these greedy assholes. They can take all their ponzi money and shove it up their bankers and congresscritters assholes.  Oops, did I let the cat out of the bag?

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:20 | 4089913 Billy Sol Estes
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Bill Gates, proud contributor to GMO crops in Africa, weather modification, and other geoengineering studies to prepare the unwashed for their new NWO leaders.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:23 | 4089918 Boris Alatovkrap
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You are forget attribution of make crappy OS for 90% who cannot afford it Mac.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:25 | 4089934 LetThemEatRand
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And the whole NSA back door cooperation thing.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:32 | 4089963 THX 1178
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And genital mutilation of countless african boys.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 12:25 | 4090328 Boris Alatovkrap
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You are of course make reference of squeamish girl behavior of Boy King, Barry Soetoro, no? Is not from mutilation, pair has just not drop as yet.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 13:00 | 4090488 Cruel Aid
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LOL!

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:47 | 4090024 Chump
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Oh c'mon.  Surely they deleted _NSAKey.  They wouldn't just rename and hide it, would they??

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 12:05 | 4090264 RaceToTheBottom
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Cost does not imply value.  Sheep and Muppets everywhere....

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 13:27 | 4090570 Boris Alatovkrap
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Please, Boris is no choice but to use of antiquated Win 3.1 on crappy Intel x86, not is sheep or muffin, but cannot is afford it Mac, even old Mac.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 15:01 | 4090962 RaceToTheBottom
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Boris, I used to drive a soviet copy of a italian fiat,

I have a soviet copy of a swiss watch,

I have a soviet copy of a german camera,

I have a soviet copy of a japanese lens,

and you are telling me you don't have soviet copy of apple?

that, my friend, is a lot of crap!!!

 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 18:59 | 4091647 Boris Alatovkrap
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You are very smart funny! Some thing is not so ease of copy because Mac OS ROM is lock. Maybe brilliant Ukrainian hacker is break ROM, but then Ukrainian programmer is charge high price for ROM copy, so Boris is still use old x86.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 23:58 | 4092320 RaceToTheBottom
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Maybe Heathkit?

Atari?

XBOX?

Google?

Apple is for people who have abdicated thinking.

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 03:04 | 4092519 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris is one time enjoy Heathkit, even if most Amerika chocolate ration is wax.

Sun, 10/27/2013 - 20:07 | 4096223 RaceToTheBottom
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Heathkit was time before America gave up their technical interests

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:31 | 4092524 monad
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(tarded)

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:24 | 4089933 Al Huxley
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And mandatory vaccinations, don't forget the vaccinations.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:15 | 4090118 tarsubil
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Yeap, the shit he and his wife have done in Africa smells to high heaven. The Gates Foundation is a tax haven NWO organization for the demonic plans of the possessed.

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 03:20 | 4092527 monad
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Monsanto proving ground

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:32 | 4089959 WillyGroper
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Ah yes, Bill & Melinda the paragon's of eugenics.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:33 | 4089962 LauraB
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... and Common Core.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:22 | 4089920 TrumpXVI
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Exactly!

I should spend more time like Bill Gates; giving away millions of $.

Oh wait, I don't HAVE billions of $, or millions either......or even....

Oh, let's just forget about it.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:29 | 4089953 LetThemEatRand
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When you are as wealthy as Gates, you set up foundations in order to avoid taxes, and to erect a monument to yourself.   And you get to pretend you're a good guy in the process.  Win win. 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:57 | 4090068 Ruffcut
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Yes, just like the rockafuckers. you are correct sir.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:22 | 4089926 Dr. Engali
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So what he is saying is he should spend more time figuring out how he can cause moar harm to the population than he already has.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:26 | 4089927 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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This is the same Bill Gates who's philantropy is being focused to set up a massive centralized database to be used against US citizens later on. It is not the giving part that is problem it is how it is allocated to do the most good or make the biggest meaningful impact dollar for dollar.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/common-core-dangerous-domestic-spying-...

Bill Gates was one of the leaders of Common Core, putting his personal money into its development, implementation and promotion, so it's unsurprising that much of this data mining will occur via Microsoft's Cloud system.

Even the Department of Education, though, admits that privacy is a concern, and that some of the data gathered may be "of a sensitive nature."  The information collected will be more than sensitive; much of it will also be completely unrelated to education.  Data collected will not only include grades, test scores, name, date of birth and social security number, it will also include parents' political affiliations, individual or familial mental or psychological problems, beliefs, religious practices and income.

In addition, all activities, as well as those deemed demeaning, self-incriminating or anti-social, will be stored in students' school records.  In other words, not only will permanently stored data reflect criminal activities, it will also reflect bullying or anything perceived as abnormal.  The mere fact that the White House notes the program can be used to "automatically demonstrate proof of competency in a work setting" means such data is intended to affect students' futures.

Perhaps even more alarming is the fact that data collection will also include critical appraisals of individuals with whom students have close family relationships.  The Common Core program has been heavily scrutinized recently for the fact that its curriculum teaches young children to use emotionally charged language to manipulate others and teaches students how to become community organizers and experts of the U.N.'s agenda 21.

Combined with this form of data collection, it's easy to envision truly disturbing untruths and distortions making their way into the permanent record.

Like Common Core, states were bribed with grant money from the federal government to implement data mining, and 47 states have now implemented some form of data mining from the educational system.  Only 9 have implemented the full Common Core data mining program.  Though there are restrictions which make storing data difficult on the federal level, states can easily store the data and allow the federal government to access it at its own discretion.

The government won't be the only organization with access to the information.  School administrators have full control over student files, and they can choose who to share information with.  Theoretically, the information could be sold, perhaps withholding identifying information.  In addition, schools can share records with any "school official" without parental consent.  The term "school official," however, includes private companies, which have contracts with the school.

NSA data mining is troubling because it could lead to intensely negative outcomes, because it opens up new avenues for control and because it is fundamentally wrong.  Common Core data mining and tracking students with GPS devices is far, far scarier.

It gives the government the ability to completely control the futures of every student of public education, and that will soon extend to private and home schools.  It provides a way to intimidate students – who already have a difficult time socially – into conforming to norms which are not only social, but also political and cultural.

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He'd have been better off using that money to tip people when he buys a cup of coffee. Since that dollar goes directly to the person you intend to help.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:37 | 4089955 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2013/201309100.asp

Here is some reading on how they plan to link all these state databases together since the Department of Education is allowed access to each state database the way common core is set up.

And more

http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/

1. Sneaky Thing Number One: It bribed the states with ARRA Stimulus monies to build 50 linkable, twinlike State Longitudinal Database Systems (SLDS). This act created a virtual national database.

2. Sneaky Thing Number Two: It altered the (previously privacy-protective) federal FERPA (Family Educational Rights Privacy Act) law to make access to personally identifiable student data –including biological and behavioral data– “legal”.

3. Sneaky Thing Number Three: The US Department of Education partnered with private groups, including the CCSSO (that’s the Council of Chief State School Officers –copyright holders on Common Core–) to collect student data nationally.

4. Sneaky Thing Number Four: It used private-public partnerships to promote data linking among agencies. The Data Quality Campaign is one example. The National Data Collection Model is another example. The Common Educational Data Standards is another example.

What do these “models” really model?

Example one: from the Data Quality Campaign: “as states build and enhance K12 longitudinal data systems they continue building linkages to exchange and use information across early childhood, postsecondary and the workforce and with other critical agencies such as health, social services and criminal justice systems.”

Let that sink in: linking data from schools, medical clinics, and criminal justice systems is the goal of the Federal-to-CCSSO partnership. So nothing will be kept from any governmental agency; nothing is to be sacred or private if it is known by an SLDS serving entity (any state-funded, state-accountable school).

Example two: from the National Data Collection Model:

your child’s name
nickname
religious affiliation
birthdate
ability grouping
GPA
physical characteristics
IEP
attendance
telephone number
bus stop times
allergies
diseases
languages and dialects spoken
number of attempts at a given assignment
delinquent status
referral date
nonschool activity involvement
meal type
screen name
maternal last name
voting status
martial status
– and even cause of death.

Proponents point out that this is not mandatory federal data collection. True; not yet. But it’s a federally partnered data model and many states are following it.

5. Sneaky Thing Number Five: The Department of Ed created grants for Common Core testing and then mandated that those testing groups synchronize their tests, report fully and often to the U.S. Department of Education, share student-level data, and produce “all student-level data in a manner consistent with an industry-recognized open-licensed interoperability standard that is approved by the Department”.

6. Sneaky Thing Number Six: The Department of Education directly lied to the American Society of News Editors. In a June 2013 speech given to the American Society of News Editors, Secretary Duncan mocked the concerns of parents and educators who are fighting Common Core and its related student data mining:

A new set of standards — rigorous, high-quality learning standards, developed and led by a group of governors and state education chiefs — are under attack as a federal takeover of the schools. And your role in sorting out truth from nonsense is really important… They make.. outlandish claims. They say that the Common Core calls for federal collection of student data. For the record, we are not allowed to, and we won’t. And let’s not even get into the really wacky stuff: mind control, robots, and biometric brain mapping. This work is interesting, but frankly, not that interesting.”

Despite what the state school board and the federal Department of Education claim, corporations do know that Common Core and student data mining are interdependent.

CEO of Escholar Shawn Bay spoke at a recent White House event called “Datapalooza.” He said (see his speech on this video, at about minute 9:15) that Common Core “is the glue that actually ties everything together” for student data collection.

And President Obama himself has called his educational and data related reforms so huge that they are cradle to career” -affecting reforms. Secretary Duncan now refers to the reforms not as “K-12? but as “p-12? meaning preschool/prenatal. These reforms affect the most vulnerable, but not in a positive way, and certainly not with voters’ knowledge and consent.

The sneakiness and the privacy invasion isn’t just a federal wrong; there’s state-level invasion of local control, too: to be specific, our state’s robbing parents of the right to fully govern their own children.

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And who's fucking philantropy is funding the cloud system for all this. Okay Gross you be more like Gates. It is more than just giving it is where and how.

 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:51 | 4090049 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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"cradle-to-career reforms"

Chew on the implications of that and the applications........................ Then apply the thought process of inverted Marxism to it.

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 12:23 | 4093261 monad
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In addition are questions sampling the effectiveness of the conditioning/brainwasher - corrective and diagnostic feedback. Completing the questionaire is voluntary, but its for the greater good, so everyone is strongly encouraged to participate. Baaa

Alinsky for "Teacher Organizers"

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:24 | 4089931 thewayitis
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  Ya Great Paragons pushing GMO food shit ......Give me a fuckin break. We don't need that shit.

 

 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:25 | 4089940 Ignatius
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Gates should stick to building 'buggy' computer software.

Dipshit 'Foundation' owns large chunk of Monsanto.

 

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:26 | 4089941 Running On Bing...
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Tell it to my fellow Walmart workers making $6/hr because of you fucking bubble blowers and wallst insiders.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:26 | 4089942 kaptainkrunch
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Can we please refer to Bill Gross as Bill Disgusting going forward? Just a thought

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:27 | 4089945 LetThemEatRand
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I think Bill Gross just took off a white glove and lightly slapped himself on the face.  In jest, of course.  Now back to him counting his money and leading the sheep to slaughter.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:31 | 4089956 jmcadg
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Bill Gates should be cleaning windows. Cunt.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 13:01 | 4090491 machineh
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Polluting the PC ecology with crapware like Microsoft Word ought to be a capital offense.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:34 | 4089958 DOGGONE
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Conpersons are everywhere ...!

The MAIN ENABLER of sizable asset price bubbles is keeping the real price histories out of sight.
For example (by me)
http://showrealhist.com/RHandRD.html

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:37 | 4089975 orangedrinkandchips
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GROSS should be SHUTTING THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING MUTT.

 

get a fucking haircut and come to reality that it's gone! you look like hell.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:39 | 4089978 Mercury
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Perhaps more Americans should spend more time that way... instead of watching every tick in AMZN and dreaming of retirement...

 

Pouring money into Africa has traditionally had a terrible ROI for its intended beneficiaries but I suppose this time could be different.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:40 | 4089979 Jason T
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I live near Cornell .. Ezra Cornell, the fellow who founded the university said it best:

"My greatest care now is how to spend this large income, to do the most good to those who are properly dependent on [me]—to the poor and to posterity. Ezra Cornell"

He would found an institution.

 

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ezra/exhibition/introduction/

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:41 | 4089992 TrustWho
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AMZN makes zero profits, so talking heads focus on sales growth which is really market share growth from the brick and mortar competitors due to cheaper prices and no sales tax.

Other companies have no to little revenue growth, but they cut investment and employees to grow bottom line, so talking heads say forget revenues, because only profit growth matters.

All of this brought to you by the great minds on the Federal Reserve Board. A bunch of unelected crimminals guarding the hen house. Ron Paul should file some lawsuit against The Fed just to do discovery on this crimminal organization. If the people knew, they would understand President Andrew Jackson warnings....

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was  given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson 

As Nicolas Trist – secretary to President Andrew Jackson – said about the incredibly powerful privately owned Second Bank of the United States, “Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, — the bare existence of such a power, — is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.” (Schlesinger, The Age of Jackson, p.102)

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:52 | 4093212 monad
Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:42 | 4089999 sangell
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Rich guys used to just found a university and name it after themselves and leave it at that. Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt etc. Giant telescopes and hospitals were popular too but whatever they did they tended to be patriotic types and used their money to benefit America and Americans. Gates doesn't seem to much like his own country or most of the people who helped him become so rich.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:44 | 4090013 MachoMan
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To tackle the general premise of Mr. Gross' comments, and not make a personal attack on Mr. Gates, I believe Mr. Gross is misguided in his notion of philanthropy.  Every act humans consciously undertake contains an element of self interest, whether it be intrinsic or extrinsic.  In the context of altruism, we're just discussing situations where intrinsic motivations tend to overpower extrinsic.  In short, the notion of philanthropy, charity, giving, altruism, etc. is no more or less noble than developing a successful business and becoming obscenely wealthy.

However, the mention is curious as is the general string of commentary by Mr. Gross...  feeling guilty about something Bill?

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:32 | 4090176 the grateful un...
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BG is a lot less anti-statist since he was caught (secretly) doing the Feds business

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:48 | 4090030 pragmatic hobo
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bill gates is hardly a role model ...

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:53 | 4090052 ejhickey
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AMZN:  not profitable yet the stock is up $32 per share.  if this doesn't look like 1999-2000, i don't know what does.  now i am not above making money off this bubbleicious stock.  i bought some at the close last night and sold it this AM.  got to take advantage of luck and found money when it pops up.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:18 | 4090130 astoriajoe
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I think that was the longest string of +1s I'd done on ZH. I had like 10 +1 in an unbroken string.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 11:30 | 4090166 the grateful un...
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that's parasite, not paragon

par·a·site

[par-uh-sahyt] Show IPA noun
1.
an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the  [server] host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment. 2.
a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, [first you pay, then you get the blue screen of death, then you call Redmond]  as one who lives on the hospitality of others.[the PC user invites him into his home, after which he steals their data, sells the data to the government, who wrongfully imprisons him . oh sorry that's the way it works in China, not here] 3.
(in ancient Greece) a person who received free meals in return for amusing or impudent conversation, flattering remarks, etc. [don't you feel better for all this?]

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 12:02 | 4090261 RockyR
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Bill and Melinda Gates are pagans?!?!?  I didn't know that!

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 12:46 | 4090421 ToNYC
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should, should, pointing at paragons and over-there, not here: Gross is just beginning to smell the waves in the Laguna Beach Hills. Bill's got TIME and you'll see him act up once he realizes sooner that it's all going away 100% just when he's so not ready and that NOW leaves no 'should' undone, doing it all the time.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 15:23 | 4091030 Zer0head
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He and Melinda are great paragons.

 

the question is paragons of what?

 

This 50050 square foot single family home has 8 bedrooms and 25.0 bathrooms. It is located at 1835 73rd Ave NE Medina, Washington

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1835-73rd-Ave-NE-Medina-WA-98039/49118...

It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0

Yes Billy you too need to emulate Bill, and purchasing Jennifer Anistons $40m dump in BH was a good start. http://realestalker.blogspot.ca/2011/06/update-jennifer-aniston-lucky-la...

 

In fact poor old karl lives in a modest 11k sq ft PH in NYC

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