ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.1
Apr 13, 2010 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS
Posted by Mike Pell
Alright, this Theme has been nagging at me for a long time.
And our closeness to April 15th and Tax Day was the trigger.
I don’t like what I see going on here- we simply cannot keep spending Money like we are in this Financial Crisis that is far from over.
And I am tired of certain words like Bailouts, Unsustainable and especially Trillion, (who the hell ever even USED Trillion in conversation before a few years ago?).
A Trillion is a Million MILLIONS!
There are so many songs about Money, and others that can apply here, I again do not know how long the series will last.
It all depends on how the muse strikes me. This is free-form radio!
So a musical look at this topic, and I am not doing this Theme entirely all warm and fuzzy, but at times with a definite snarl!
Mike
Tags: April 15th, Bailouts, Billions, Free-form Radio, Millions, Tax Day, The Muse, Trillions, Unsustainable
ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.2
Apr 16, 2010 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS
Posted by Mike Pell
I realize I may make some people uneasy with this series, but I am just expressing my deep concern about our economy.
I fear we will go bankrupt!
If you are a normal, sane person, you would never balance your home budget and spend the way the government has, and is continuing to do.
My own balancing act here is to warn, and at the same time be entertaining with the musical selections.
While the Stock Market has always been a gamble- no sure thing, just like in Horse Racing- the game was never rigged, and some of the biggest risk takers have been the biggest winners.
But due to the reckless actions of some banks and Wall Streeters, there were people who lost everything.
Bernie Madoff anyone?
However, I don’t need and don’t want any more overseeing by some federal agency than is absolutely necessary…in ANY aspect of my life.
The Government and Wall Street will be the targets of my music and my scorn this episode.
So you are invited to join me in mild protest that may grow as we go along.
At least I hope you think the music is good, varied and entertaining.
And hey, listening is free and will not be taxed…yet anyway, lol!
Mike
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Horse Racing, Stock Market, The Government, Wall Street
ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.3
Apr 20, 2010 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS
Posted by Mike Pell
As promised the last time, a look at our being caught up in, and being far too concerned with, the material world.
I don’t feel like writing today, and there are Stanley Cup Playoff games to be watched.
After all this time, you know what I do and how I go about it- it is a different way of presenting music.
I have here in this chapter words spoken and music played.
If you listen you’ll get the message, so why write about it, lol?
Mike
ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.4
Apr 22, 2010 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS 1 Comment
Posted by Mike Pell
Here is another chapter on Money and The Financial Crisis from me, self-appointed Pessimism Czar.
There will be an interruption in this series, so I wanted to make sure I got the chance to take a poke at the those repulsive bottomfeeders we call politicians.
This also gives them time to send any agency they want after me- maybe I need some reindoctrination, lol!
Bring it on punks!
There has never been a time when I held politicians in such utter contempt- they have dipped below even lawyers in the scum department.
The music here will reflect my feelings, and maybe yours, maybe not.
But I have always done an honest presentation of Rockollections.
Frankly I am uncomfortable with this on a rock & roll show.
But a Financial Crisis is a Financial Crisis, one that is looming big-time in my opinion, so the honesty from me is still there- and I hope I am wrong about all this.
Big government will bring us economic collapse, it’s as simple as that.
If I can make someone aware or curious about the future, and they take a good long hard look, then all the better.
Hell, I played protest songs in the 60’s, so why not in 2010?
Here’s something my man Neil Cavuto wrote in his Common Sense:
Back to Reality
By Neil Cavuto
Good month, good quarter.
So why, a lot of you ask, do I always talk about this economy and these markets and just say, good grief?
Because I’m worried.
I’m happy to see the market up and moving; it’s just that lots of things have me fidgeting and worrying.
I know markets climb a wall of worry, but I’m talking a bigger wall of reality: The reality of spending money we don’t have; blithely assuming we’ll have buyers for all this debt we can’t stop.
I just find it ironic that Boeing was the worst performer among the Dow 30 stocks today, even though it was the best performer for the first three months of the year going into today.
Boeing ending the quarter with a warning: Health care will cost. A lot.
They’re just the latest. There will be more.
Because there will be a reckoning for committing companies to bills they cannot pay, and a society to a tab it cannot afford.
There will be other countries, like China, who say it ain’t worth the fuss holding dollars, so they pull back; and more secret meetings of countries looking for financial alternatives to us, so they will push back.
There is some comfort in knowing as bad as things are here, they are worse out there. So we benefit not because we still don’t stink, but because they stink more.
That is hardly the stuff on which bull markets are built, but these are exactly the markets to which suckers are drawn — convinced that we’ll find a way to pay for all of this. And companies that dare complain are making political hay of this.
I say, enough of this — and back to reality. Not red, or blue: Green. We’re spending it, and we’re losing it.
Just don’t lose sight of the simple reality that what fuels this rally isn’t so much what Barack Obama is doing, but what Ben Bernanke is providing: near zero percent interest rates.
Rates so low, it keeps inflation in check, and investors in clover. Until the bills come due; the folks who help pay them demand more for their trouble, and suddenly they’re not zero. And mortgages aren’t five percent, and the prime pushes higher, and our financial date with destiny comes nearer.
Because hear me when I say that date with destiny is coming.
A date marked by Republicans who let spending get out of control and Democrats who took the reins and let it get out of control more.
A bipartisan blood bath, brought to you by a government that saw it but didn’t tell you, and presented now by a lowly TV anchor, here to say: I warned you.
Have a wonderful day.
Next week, something much lighter, something I have wanted to do for years but I would never realize in time when this particular event was going to happen.
I actually know this year, so I can’t let it pass by without noting it with music.
So a Special Show next week.
After that, 4 weeks of another series I did a few years ago.
I need a leave of absence, but this Money series will continue come hell or high water.
Unless they take me away after this episode, lol!
Mike
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