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Third Banker, Former Fed Member, "Found Dead" Inside A Week

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If the stock market were already crashing then it would be simple to blame the dismally sad rash of dead bankers in the last week on that - certainly that was reflected in 1929. However, for the third time in the last week, a senior financial executive has died in what appears to be a suicide. As Bloomberg reports, following the deaths of a JPMorgan senior manager (Tuesday) and a Deutsche Bank executive (Sunday), Russell Investments' Chief Economist (and former Fed economist) Mike Dueker was found dead at the side of a highway in Washington State. Police said the death appeared to be a suicide.

Via Bloomberg,

Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. He was 50.

 

He may have jumped over a 4-foot (1.2-meter) fence before falling down a 40- to 50-foot embankment, Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer said yesterday. He said the death appeared to be a suicide.

 

Dueker was reported missing on Jan. 29, and a group of friends had been searching for him along with law enforcement. Troyer said Dueker was having problems at work, without elaborating.

 

Dueker was in good standing at Russell, said Jennifer Tice, a company spokeswoman. She declined to comment on Troyer’s statement about Dueker’s work issues.

But as Michael Snyder noted recently, if the stock market was already crashing, it would be easy to blame the suicides on that.  The world certainly remembers what happened during the crash of 1929...

Historically, bankers have been stereotyped as the most likely to commit suicide. This has a lot to do with the famous 1929 stock market crash, which resulted in 1,616 banks failing and more than 20,000 businesses going bankrupt.

 

The number of bankers committing suicide directly after the crash is thought to have been only around 20, with another 100 people connected to the financial industry dying at their own hand within the year.

Dueker had also been a research economist at the St. Louis Fed:

He published dozens of research papers over the past two decades, many on monetary policy, according to the St. Louis Fed’s website, which ranks him among the top 5 percent of economists by number of works published. His most-cited work was a 1997 paper titled “Strengthening the case for the yield curve as a predictor of U.S. recessions,” published by the reserve bank while he was a researcher there.

So, with stocks a mere 4% off their highs, are so many high ranking and well respected bankers committing suicide?

 

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Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:45 | 4388007 Billy Sol Estes
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Maybe that is why Mohamed A. El-Erian took the golden parachute instead of the 'retire-early' offer.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:51 | 4388510 SDShack
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That's the most plausible explanation. Took his life so he doesn't have to face accountability for his actions. That's the sociopath way. I guarantee he didn't commit suicide because of any remorse or epiphany for what he did to others. This was nothing but a way to protect himself in his own twisted mind by saving himself from the embarrassment that the world will know he isn't the genius top dog that he thought he fooled everyone into believing he was. To put it briefly, "He can't handle the truth!"

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 02:06 | 4390744 Freddie
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The Milwaukee company is Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company which has a pretty good reputation.   They bought about $300 million in gold a few years ago and were possibly the only insurance company to do that. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=ajf0L9wTPq6Y&pid=newsarchive

$400 million in 2009.  Now why does a guy working for a company that just does indexing portfolios but was a fromer Fed member kill himself?

I wonder if he mentioned something to somebody at work that the game is almost over and they send out the MIC contractors who are good at "chipping" Mercedes too.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 08:46 | 4390995 Fíréan
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Northwestern Mutual Life has recently announced that they are considering to sell off Russell Investments while Russell is on top . . .

January 28, 2014Seatle Times.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022774446_russellinvest...

re. "the game is over "

of course for the sinister "theories" maybe all the top Seattle persons had been warned off heading for the Super Bowl game this weekend and not to tell . . . . the Sea Hawks are gonna to lose ?

My condolences to his family.

The other recent banker "suicides" :

"Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan bank executive, died this morning(  after he threw himself off the top of the bank's European headquarters (London)"

On Sunday (26 jan.2014), former (reitred) Deutsche Bank senior manager, William 'Bill' Broeksmit, 58, was found hanging in his home in South Kensington (London)"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547684/TWO-senior-American-bankers-working-London-commit-suicide-just-two-days-one-jumped-500ft-death-JP-Morgan-skyscraper.html

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:42 | 4387975 Van Halen
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He jumped off a 40-50 foot embankment? That's odd. And convenient if you can't get him to swallow poison or leave a trail shooting/stabbing/beating him to death.

Or, if three of these guys really did kill themselves, I wonder if they were on to something we haven't found out yet.

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:42 | 4387977 corporatewhore
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so many odd suicides lately.  wasn't there one in London recently where he'd committed suicide inside a zipped gym bag?

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:34 | 4388476 reload
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that guy was a GCHQ analyst.

and amazingly he managed to padlock himself into the bag - but to the investigating authorities it was obviously a tragic suicide.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 02:10 | 4390749 Freddie
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Yes GCHQ aka part of Mi6.  They tried to make it a gay thing gone bad.  I think he was a quant type in crypto.

Doesn't GCHQ spy on American citizens for Uncle Samuel because it is "illegal."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:44 | 4387989 LFMayor
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"They say Jove laughs..."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 20:53 | 4390092 Seize Mars
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LFMayor

"...at the perjuries of lovers."

Nothing - at all - to do with bank murders.

Nice try, but FAIL.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:43 | 4387991 Dineroguru
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Hey Lloyd and Jamie--- take a hint and be good monkey see-monkey do banksters!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:43 | 4387992 Quinvarius
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I don't know what I'd rather find out in the woods.  A bag of money or a dead ex-Fed banker.  Both seem like a lottery win in life.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:35 | 4388248 e_goldstein
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If it's the latter, don't forget to poke it with a stick... alot.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:44 | 4387993 aerojet
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If all of them died I would not shed a tear.  They as a collective has so much to answer for in terms of human suffering, especially since 2008. I'm so tired of there being no solutions from DC except more propping up markets that should have crashed and burned and allowed the system to begin to heal the right way, but intstead they make the bubbles worse and worse so that the final end is a world war or at least 100s of millions of deaths one way or another.  I'm not kidding when I say that if we cared about our future we should be hunting these people down and ending this situation now before they create the conditions for mass human extinction.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:44 | 4387995 nightshiftsucks
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Everyones lack of empathy is very encouraging,and for the finishing move they should let me shit on them.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:47 | 4388019 Atticus Finch
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I think suicided.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:49 | 4388023 NoTTD
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For how profiteth a man that he should gain the world and lose his soul?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:50 | 4388033 alien-IQ
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I'm Bullish on Involuntary Suicides. It's a growth industry...with a long track record.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:58 | 4388034 jtz5
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Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:53 | 4388042 unrulian
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he jumped 1.2m and then jumped 40-50 meters...is that like shooting yourself twice?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:59 | 4388073 notadouche
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One might consider this along the same line as "the single bullet theory"  you know that crazy bullet that hit JFK, then Connely in the wrist, "stopping in mid air mind you...  making it the most ridiculous bullet in history"

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:54 | 4388051 BiteMeBO
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Be vewy afrwaid.  

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:54 | 4388053 machineh
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Russell Investments is an asset manager, not an investment bank or commercial bank. They designed the Russell 2000 small-cap index in 1984, and back-calculated it to 1979. It's the premier index for getting small-cap exposure.

Dueker's 1997 paper on the yield curve concluded that it is the single best predictor of recession:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/97/03/9703md.pdf

Dueker's insight proved its worth afterward in both 1999 and 2006, when yield curve inversions preceeded major bear markets and recessions.

Thanks for your good work, Michael Dueker.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:54 | 4388054 Fix It Again Timmy
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He tried to "short" suicide, being a banker and all...

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:20 | 4388638 waterhorse
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Next up, death by exploding derivatives.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:56 | 4388057 I Am Not a Copp...
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This is a good start

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:19 | 4388641 waterhorse
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Yes, reminds me of those lawyer jokes and the bottom of the sea.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:56 | 4388062 kchrisc
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3 dead in a week. Strangely, I feel safer. My guillototine is disappointed though.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:17 | 4388165 Disenchanted
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3 bankster deaths are certainly attracting more attention than the string of microbiologists dying  back in the early 2000s...

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:50 | 4388509 WillyGroper
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Brucella Mycoplasm. 

Look it up. We're all infected.

100 Dead Scientists.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 05:18 | 4390876 Disenchanted
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The most famous(infamous?) suspicious microbiologist death:

 

 

On Thursday, July 17th[2003] sometime between 3 and 3:30pm, Dr. David Kelly started out on his usual afternoon walk. About 18 hours later, searchers found his body, left wrist slit, in a secluded lane on Harrowdown Hill. Kelly, the UK's premier microbiologist, was in the centre of a political maelstrom having been identified as the 'leak' in information about the 'dossier' Prime Minister Tony Blair had used to justify the war against Iraq.

 

David Kelly Murder

Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly?
Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:58 | 4388068 NoTTD
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He climbed over a fence than then threw himself off an embankment?  He planned all that, including dying in a most painful manner, yet left no note?

 

Next headline:  Prominent Banker Accidently Cuts Head Off While Shaving.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:08 | 4388126 adr
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They once found him laying on the ground with the gun and suicide note on the table. Even his suicide notes are written in Latin. His methods are so great that the bullets come out smooth and can't be traced.

When I commit suicide, I only do it by two shots to the back.

-the most interesting man in the world

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:49 | 4388504 HardlyZero
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Bankster meets embankment.  It's either The Onion or God.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:57 | 4388069 roadhazard
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Reading about financial people commiting suicide always make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Can we go for two in one day.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:58 | 4388071 samsara
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Something Happening Here,   What it is ain't exactly Clear.....

Nothing to see here.....

You already forgot about the rash of deaths of all those microbiologists in the early 2000's

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:02 | 4388089 MsCreant
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It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound, everybody look, bankers on the grooound...[insert groovy guitar riff about here].

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:07 | 4391078 Proofreder
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Battle lines being drawn ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs

Some one had to do it ...

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:14 | 4391086 Proofreder
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Suprised no one quoted the important lines in the tune ...

Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

step out of line,

the Man comes

and takes you away.

Truely words for our time.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:02 | 4388093 adr
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Or young women from Arkansas.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:26 | 4388181 Disenchanted
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sorry samsara, didn't see your post re: microbiologists...

but I left a link about that above in comment # 

4388165

 

 


Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:57 | 4388072 mattgallis
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Dexter?

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 07:10 | 4390947 trader1
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not dexter's MO...

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 11:58 | 4388076 One of We
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Former Clinton associates no doubt.....

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:23 | 4388186 Blano
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Hillary's minions are dusting off the rust for 2016.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:00 | 4388077 MsCreant
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Do they call the rise in the banker suicide rate a "dead banker bounce?"

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:20 | 4388643 waterhorse
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yes, aka a dead predator bounce.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:00 | 4388078 homiegot
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I love the smell of dead banker in the morning.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:00 | 4388083 notadouche
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In reality the one's that die early are the most tragic for the public because they are more likely the weakest links and would be one's that we would hear actual truths from and clear up the enigma wrapped in a riddle.  

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:01 | 4388087 adr
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The first thing you do when you know the heat is coming is to off your bag men. Thehy are the only ones to connect you to the crime. Which is why bag men are such valuable grabs for the FBI. That's how Mayor Jackson in Cleveland escaped. Everyone knew he was dirty, but they couldn't pin anything on him directly. They did catch a bag man once but he didn't squeal. 

The .1% don't do any work. Those under them run the scams, figure out the schemes. These guys that committed "suicide" knew too much. Imagine what happens if just ine real figure comes out about one of the multi-billion dollar fraud corporations currently trading at triple digit P/Es. Many very powerful billionaires will lose a lot of money.

 When you start looking into how many people connected with finance and government commit suicide, it really makes you wonder. The ranks of government and finance are filled with sociopaths that make Hannibal Lector look like a good choice for a babysitter. 

My favorite conspiracy that is probably fact is that the whole Jack the Ripper thing was a cover created by the royal family so they could kill off all the prostitutes from a brothel because the prince couldn't keep it in his pants and knocked one of them up. Can't have the bastard child of a prostitute sitting on the throne.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:11 | 4388130 Meat Hammer
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They were suspicious of this guy from the start.  He would say things like, "I can't work late tonight.  My son has a baseball game." and "No hookers, please.  I'm happily married." and "I have my clients' best interests at heart".

He was doomed and they knew it.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:19 | 4388417 smacker
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On your Royal conspiracy...they have got themselves in a similar situation again.

Think: the current third in line to the British throne.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:42 | 4388701 Things that go bump
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I think the 3rd in line is an infant. Young Harry is 4th. I once met a guy in a bar who claimed to be in the line of succession to the British throne, though I took that with a grain of salt considering the circumstances. I understand there are several thousand people on that list. An illegitimate child would have to be legitimized to get into the line of succession, as Henry the VIII considering doing with his acknowledged bastard, Henry Fitzroy, before he got himself a legitimate living son. These days, I imagine the problem with such a royal indiscretion would be the scandal of it, though with what they've weathered in the last 30 years I'd think a little Fitzroy or 2 would hardly cause more than a ripple. 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 19:21 | 4389831 smacker
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You're assumoing that the 3rd in line to the throne made physical contact during his wife's impregnation.

There is no certainty of this.

It may well have been artificial insemination and therefore anybody's sperm that was used.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:01 | 4388088 LawsofPhysics
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Odd, he wasn't jewish.  I thought that was a requirement of all Fed members?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:05 | 4388097 Billy Sol Estes
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Used to be the requirement to get on the Supreme Court in the good ole days.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:26 | 4388196 notadouche
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Wow nice handle and very old school and specific.  

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:30 | 4388224 therevolutionwas
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but unpleasant to think about.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:59 | 4388344 Billy Sol Estes
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Old McReynolds would literally walk out of the chambers if Brandeis even opened his mouth.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:39 | 4388264 Pseudo Anonym
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not odd at all that

Odd, he wasn't jewish.

that's why the goyim is dead.  just a friendly warning for the others that would want in on the family run criminal racket.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:07 | 4388092 Typing Typer
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Well it is a pretty high bridge, Google an image of it, Tacoma Narrows Bridge. If you fell off, it would probably kill you.

Of course, how you fall off is altogether a different matter!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:59 | 4388559 Pseudo Anonym
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i dont google.  google spies on me.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 20:59 | 4390115 Seize Mars
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Pseudo Anonym

When you shout from that bridge do you hear a Pseudo Echo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KGF8lg6Dc

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:06 | 4388106 John McCloy
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 I suppose his Hot Tub wasnt being installed till next week.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:06 | 4388110 Smuckers
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Inflate or die. 
I guess we know now.

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:08 | 4388113 all-priced-in
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His most-cited work was a 1997 paper

This may be a clue.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:08 | 4388114 madcows
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My first thought was "He has a conscience?"

But, then I thought, "Hell, it's definitely b/c he ain't raking down 3 million dollar bonuses now that the FED has taken away some of the punch bowl."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:08 | 4388115 Carl Popper
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Unfortunately it is usually the ones with a conscience and some guilt feelings who commit suicide.

Most likely the wrong bankers are killing themselves.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:31 | 4388677 css1971
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What makes you think they are killing themselves? Oh because the authorities said so to the press?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:07 | 4388117 djsmps
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Night of the long knives

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:23 | 4388178 youngman
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I see a trend here.....

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:23 | 4388187 Waterfallsparkles
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Bernanke retiring and 3 Bankers commit suicide? 

Wonder if they were buying the Market with FED funds.  Cannot have any tatle tales.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:24 | 4388191 whatthecurtains
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Why can't Jon Corzine take this route out?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:22 | 4388648 waterhorse
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and Fuld, Cassano, Benmosche, Geithner, Rubin, Paulson, Summers, Weill, Bernanke, Blankfein, Moynihan, Lewis, Dimon...

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:25 | 4388194 SpanishGoop
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Saves rope later on.

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:29 | 4388210 yogibear
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Dead men tell no tails.

Watch out for falling banksters. Those out of favor with the central banksters will accidentally die.

Goes to show you how diabolical the financial system has become.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:27 | 4391105 Proofreder
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TALES - idiot

WTF !  Why does no one proof what they type ???

Doesn't take but a couple of seconds, just to look at what one keys into the ether ...

but NO ONE seems to do that in the race to be the first to hit reply and vent and then hit Save.

but never reading what they have written ...

Save does not equal: Iwin'causeIamfirst,mofo!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:29 | 4388213 spooz
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Better to have possible whistleblowers suicided before they pull a Snowden on the banksters. Just idle speculation.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:32 | 4388226 chindit13
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So this is what Zerohedge has become?  You know nothing of this man, yet you rejoice in his death because he had an association with an industry every last one of you has used to live above your means (mortgage, credit card, car loan, student loan, etc.).  I wonder how many of you know the genesis of this very website.  Any who do apparently have a very selective belief in redemption.  Some posters in this thread have even lost loved ones recently, and came to the audience to elicit sympathy, yet cannot summon an ounce of compassion for someone else's loss. 

I see no difference, moral or otherwise, between you addled brain clowns and the absolute worst of those who set the financial system afire, with one exception:  at least some of those other folks have been a success in life.  To be both an abject failure and morally reprehensible is pretty much the bottom of the barrel, or in your case, cesspool.  Hey, maybe your $48 silver is down at the bottom!

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:37 | 4388253 El
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I don't celebrate anyone's death or misfortune, but these were not good people. Let's not pretend they were now.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:23 | 4388652 waterhorse
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banksters are not people.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:39 | 4388262 Typing Typer
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Wow! That was a really good speech, until you declared all the readers and posters here (whom you know nothing about) to be failures in life, contradicting your own moral outrage that people here have attacked the deceased of this thread, whom they also know nothing about, thereby shorting out all your own moral umbrage, and showing that you are the same creature which you proclaim to abhor. Other than that, you were really on a roll there for a few sentences!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:47 | 4388300 Pseudo Anonym
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there's a /sarc off flag missing some place there, no?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:08 | 4388378 smacker
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Of course we didn't know this individual personally.

But...you know...there's an old saying that begins "if you sup with the devil ..."

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:31 | 4391111 Proofreder
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... use a long spoon.

?????

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:13 | 4388398 GoldenDonuts
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You are correct.  There are some pretty heartless responses here to this man's death.  On the other hand I think that there is enough evidence of some horrible behavior from this group that always goes unpunished that it is hard to feel simpathy to these people.

Libor rigging, mortgage fraud, ponzi schemes, etc etc etc.  Maybe this guy was a good guy and does not deserve to be lumped in with the Jamie Dimons of the world but as everyone who reads this website knows life just isn't fair.

Oh and my $20 silver is doing just fine thank you very much.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:22 | 4388427 Spumoni
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There are some miserably hard facts to face in this world. One of them is that our DNA has become riddled with rot and corruption. Whether this man was a saint or a devil matters not a whit. Perhaps he had information that would have brought additional pressure onto the criminals at the banking cartels. Maybe he was just depressed and feeling bad about having been part of the greatest robbery ever committed-by his chosen profession. Perhaps none of the above is relevant at all. Whatever it may be, chindit, judging another's success or failure in terms of money sets this whole dirty wheel in motion-and for that, we are all as guilty and lowdown as anyone else, so save your sanctimonious finger for your nose. You are no better than the best or the worst-you're just another member of the organism.

Success, for a human soul, rests upon a simple principle-'do no harm.' The harmers need to be culled from the herd if it is to survive.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:45 | 4388497 Pseudo Anonym
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you have me in tears

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:29 | 4388455 linrom
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You have no idea what these people can do the rest of society? This man was on top directing an army of bandits. So yes, one less 'bandit' equals one giant step for man.

These people have declared war on us! If you don't believe that, just read what Tom Perkins said---kristallnacht? This is all because some began to notice such things like 95% of all income gains going to 1%.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:33 | 4388469 resurger
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Tell us about the genesis oracle?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:47 | 4388722 walküre
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Nice speech from a very high horse. Get off it. Called "Schadenfreude" and believe you me, Wall Street is full of hubris and could care less what anyone thinks of them. They're "gods" remember?

The guy is dead. He doesn't care about ad hominems one way or another.

His family will deal with it if he has any. Hopefully someone close to him will ask for an autopsy and an independent review of his cause of death.

Suicide can be an honorable act to trigger life insurance if the family is looking at financial destitution. That may or may not have been the case here.

His office reported he seemed very stressed out at work. Regardless of their typical stress levels, they thought it was worth mentioning. The office noticed it. He obviously had some sort of problem and either he took the short road or his problem was "fixed" by someone else.

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 15:51 | 4389001 jomama
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the comments section has definitely gone south in the last couple years.  i will admit i was tempted to condemn this person as well - just as i wanted to kick the ass of every bum around my neighborhood because my car keeps getting broken into.  but you're right, each person is case by case, and while the sector is reprehensible, some of these keyboard vigilantes are sounding pretty uncivilized.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 16:44 | 4389228 nightshiftsucks
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And look at what the so called civil people of this world have done.The politicians and bankers and .001% have destroyed our way of life.Just wait and see,life is about to become even more uncivil.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:33 | 4391117 Proofreder
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Keyboard Vigilante +100

Thanks

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 20:50 | 4390090 Backtable
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"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 10:38 | 4391121 Proofreder
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aaaaannnnnnnnnnd here's the ref ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

seems a good way to respond to most anything.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 01:41 | 4390702 PT
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It's true.  If something bad happens to your friend or rellie, you don't want to find out about it on ZH.  You certainly don't want to read the comments on ZH.  When it comes to unfortunate outcomes discussed on ZH, I know there are at least a few people on this planet, strangers that I have never met, to whom I owe an apology.

OTOH, certain sentiments needs expressing.  Certain crimes need acknowledgement, and ZH is what it is and we are grateful for that.  Just keep sensitive people away from here at sensitive times.  You wouldn't do a burn-out at a funeral, you wouldn't perform an autopsy in front of the funeral audience, you probably shouldn't be reading ZH at a funeral either.  Doesn't mean it is inappropriate for the rest of the world. 

Some wife and kids lost a hubby and father.  They probably thought he was an upstanding member of the community.  Kind of a sad time to find out the truth on ZH.  But millions of people are suffering from the actions of that man - homeless, bankrupt, lost their homes, jobs, divorce, suicide ... you speak up for the family of the one bankster, we speak up for the millions of little people that you have ignored. 

Re : " ... he had an association with an industry every last one of you has used to live above your means ..." .  You're pulling the orphan defence:  The kid who kills his parents and then pleads for mercy from the judge on the grounds that he is an orphan.

First up, "living above your means" ain't what it used to be, or at least, speak for yourself.  Secondly, those who chose to live within their means suffered even more as prices were bid unsustainably high by idiots that were enabled by the banksters, thus the sensible people were forced out of the market altogether.  Yes, I'd love to shove the idiots and their banksters in the same hole together, but ultimately it was the banksters who enabled the mess.  The idiots went along for the free ride, but most of them were also screwed at the last minute.  Do banksters lose anything when a home is foreclosed?  What happens when the foreclosed home is sold to another idiot?

It's true that we ( I - I  don't really know about anyone else ) know nothing about this man.  He could be good, bad, bad planning on going good (as suggested by others), but the comments are consistent with the industry he was in and the company he kept.  If he was a member of a bikie gang, he would get comments consistent with the stereotype bikie.  If he was Afghan and had a beard, he'd attract certain types of comments without anyone even knowing his religion etc, etc, etc.  This guy was a bankster.  The truth about banksters has been well publicised.  He may have thought he did well by not becoming a member of a bikie gang.  Turns out his gang is just as bad.  He may deserve the negative comments here, otherwise, shit happens.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 07:12 | 4390952 trader1
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+1

voice of reason

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:31 | 4388227 juicemoney
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Not enough of you guys are asking "why now?"

I hate bankers as much as the next ZH'er but this is really suspicious. It looks like somebody is severring all ties... or silencing whistleblowers. 3 bankers so far in positions with access to confidential information... I'd be worried as to what they are covering up. They didn't do much over LIBOR or the Comex but suddenly tying up loose ends now? I think we are approaching SHTF at an increasing pace.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:02 | 4388354 smacker
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Be very suspicious when God's bankers are discovered hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London. a-la Roberto Calvi.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:55 | 4388531 HardlyZero
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Corzine.

The next 'big thing' was to bail out the EMs...after the successful bailout of the banks and US by the FED.

They must have all been juicing up their EM portfolios on the hope of making a killing...uh profit.

 

That is how Corzine took down MFGlobal...the leverage on EU 'breaking out'.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:32 | 4388233 smacker
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3 down, 30,000 to go.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:34 | 4388234 El
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Between this, that, the other, and 11 of Nancy Pelosi's closest bailing from Congress, it is almost enough to make one think something might be going on here.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:33 | 4388235 Fezter
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What did they know that we don't know?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:34 | 4388242 SAT 800
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Wake me up when they start on the Politicians.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:36 | 4388255 earnyermoney
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Hey, Bernanke! Follow his lead.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:36 | 4388257 _ConanTheLibert...
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I know one thing. Banker suicides bring out the best responses.

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 07:18 | 4390954 LongMarch
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The life of a banksta brings out the worst in people; their death, the best.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:49 | 4388306 OldPhart
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I find I have appalling apathy.   I may be cold hearted (definitely am), but I want to share a few words of encouragement withthe banking class..."Jump, you fuckers!"

Take it to heart.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 15:12 | 4388830 FeralSerf
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You would like to protect the Jamies and the Hillaries from those that know what really happened and might rat on them, eh?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:49 | 4388309 MagicHandPuppet
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"If you like your banker, you can keep your banker."

"...except that one... and that one... and that one."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:58 | 4388334 _SILENCER
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He probably looked over his shoulder, saw an axe-wielding Patrick Bateman after his ass, freaked right the fuck out, took the short route to the parking garage.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:57 | 4388336 RaymondKHessel
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Look, he's flying!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:58 | 4388337 Okienomics
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Was there a suicide note?  Can't help but think an intelligent man in such dispair would feel compelled to express the reason; absent a note seems more like "suicided" than suicide.  Any psychologists or profilers out there have an insight on this?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:57 | 4388342 FishHockers
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Any truth that he shot himself in the back of the head three time?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:58 | 4388345 ak_khanna
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Could the bankers be starting to suffer from guilty conscience that they are single handedly responsible for the financial hardships faced by the millions of people around the world?

Oops sorry, what was I thinking, they are bankers, Gods special creatures made without soul or conscience alongwith the politicians.

 www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40231.html

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 12:59 | 4388349 MFLTucson
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Perfect, keep them coming!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:03 | 4388353 robertocarlos
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 All those years wasted in an economics class-room have me depressed.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:04 | 4388357 q99x2
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This is what it took to get them to stop in the 1930's.

They are like pedophiles. They won't stop until they are locked up.

Let me know when they take down Dimon, Blankfein and Yellen.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:05 | 4388360 Nasquak
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Found on road dead... hmmm... Was he driving a Ford?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:24 | 4388434 Spumoni
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Nope. Chevy.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:56 | 4388543 Tortuga
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Nope, Fiat Chrysler.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:04 | 4388362 NoWayJose
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The bankster hit men keep getting better and better...

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:10 | 4388385 Bunga Bunga
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Suicide or not, they must have seen something terrible and ugly coming.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:13 | 4388392 Warhead
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Wait, so he goes to a bridge to jump off something and commit suicide, but he DOESN'T choose the bridge? Like that was maybe too far to walk or it just didn't occur to him? So either this wasn't suicide, or he was an idiot despite being chief economist at an investment firm and a former fed economist...oh. I see.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:15 | 4388406 Cornholiovanderbilt
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Yea and Michael Hastings had a "car accident" 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:20 | 4388420 q99x2
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To hell with all these dead bankers. Let bygones be bygones. I wanna know what the mafia in NY is deciding about BitCoin.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:19 | 4388422 Fezter
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Maybe this is a new fad that will catch on with gvernment types.....

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:25 | 4388440 Hongcha
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Bingo Fezter.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:20 | 4388424 Billy Sol Estes
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Shouldn't we all be chanting "Run! Run! Run!" outside branches instead of "Jump!" ?

Same result I think.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:23 | 4388438 Hongcha
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Chicken Soup for the Soul.  Keep 'em coming.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:55 | 4388534 Tortuga
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I've never understood that chicken soup and soul thing?

Now, bacon anything, that carresses my id?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:26 | 4388446 ian807
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Three dead? Well, it's a start.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:29 | 4388448 Son of Loki
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<< a group of friends had been searching for him >>

 

"Luigi "BeeBee Eyes" Lorenzi, Guido "Garrotte" Giardano, Carmello "The Carver" Carducci and Franky "Flathead" Favolio...had been searching for him...."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:30 | 4388456 Fix It Again Timmy
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How can anyone have sympathy for these fuckers?  Can't make that last mortgage payment after faithfully paying 29 years and 11 months?  Tough shit, the house is ours, the street's your home!  They all need to jump or slit their wrists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 15:10 | 4388817 FeralSerf
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"These fuckers" are the ones that would have testified against their bosses.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:30 | 4388457 mick_richfield
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So it really is a war.

But what are the sides?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:34 | 4388470 mick_richfield
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Something about this just doesn't seem right.

Police said that Mr. Dueker apparently committed suicide by tying his hands behind his back and shooting himself in the head three times.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:41 | 4388493 Inthemix96
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What a fucking waste eh?

This bankster with some of his thieved earnings decided to take parachute lessons.  On his first jump, off he goes, flying like an eagle straight down, pulls the rip cord, nowt happens, pulls the back-up rip cord, nowt happens, pulls the 'Never Needed Ever' emergency rip cord, nowt happens, plummeting like fuck at the ground, he passes a bloke going up.

'You know out about parachutes mate?', He shouts,

'Fuck all, you know out about gas cookers?'.

;-)

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:48 | 4388500 SgtShaftoe
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First it was journalists dying in mysterious impossible deaths, now bankers dying in mysterious implausable deaths.  Veterans are dying from presumed suicide in great numbers..  No, no cause for alarm.  Back to the telescreen everyone. 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:47 | 4388502 Yen Cross
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     I guess the NSA finally found his stash of "gay midget tranny porn", and he didn't want to join the "Eternal Servitude Club."

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:52 | 4388521 Tortuga
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This is just wrong. I want to:

 

RICO all banksters, govt bureaucrats, treasonous teleprompter readers, and their political whores, past and present.

 

Hari kari isn't adequate punishment.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:57 | 4388550 Lord Koos
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Well, it's a start.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:16 | 4388558 BadDog
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Excuse me if these questions have already been asked, but I just saw this.  Were there autopsies performed?  If so, by whom?  What were the results?

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:01 | 4388566 Arkadaba
Fri, 01/31/2014 - 15:47 | 4388992 Pumpkin
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Must have been close to the truth.  It's gone.

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 16:39 | 4389211 Arkadaba
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Weird. If you cut and paste the url the link is still working

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 17:24 | 4389375 TheAnswerIs42
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Nice article.

The working link is: http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2014/01/on-death-and-derivatives/

 

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 14:07 | 4388599 ZeroRights
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This smells and sounds like a Clinton is running for office!

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