October 12 2009 show notes

  • Guests:
  • Topics:
    • Sick of rush hour?! How about user fee highways?
    • Has Afghanistan become "Obama's War?"
    • Columbus Day.
    • How has private equity destroyed the American dream?
  • Bumper Music:
  • Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
  • Quote: "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." - Robert F. Kennedy.
  • Ad: "CSX - How Tomorrow Moves". New CSX Commercial Titled "Close To Nothing" released 9/15/08. Bicycles hauling trailers.

    "Until we can move a ton of goods using no fuel, we've got the next best thing. CSX trains can move a ton of goods 423 miles on one gallon of fuel. CSX: how tomorrow moves."

  • Article: "A Columbus Day Meditation - As Nobel Laureate Obama Decides Whether to 'Conquer' Afghanistan..." by Thom Hartmann.
  • Article: Blackstone in listing spree by Henny Sender.

    "Blackstone, the world’s largest buy-out firm, is planning to list up to eight companies it owns and sell at least five others, marking a reversal of its pessimistic view of the global economy and financial markets.

    Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone’s founder, told investors in a letter sent on Friday: “We see the world changing once again. At least for private equity, the worst is behind the industry.” "

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