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Saturday, March 02, 2013

The US Treasury's Ability to Borrow is Already Threatened

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This is in response to a comment that stated that there would be no change in congressional behavior until our ability to borrow was th...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Lazy, stupid, or lying?

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This is in response to Dr. Krugman's May 24, 2011 blog entry: Debt Arithmetic: Wonkish "Still, Serious People tell us that investo...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Corporate tax musings

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This is a response to the following: http://blog.darkuncle.net/post/5413503554/i-wonder-what-my-libertarian-friends-think-about Corporate pe...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

The value of a metaphor.

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A bar hires a police officer as a bouncer. He cards people as they come in, breaks up the occasional fight, and tosses people out when they...

High Priced CEOs... why?

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A rather funny comment got me to thinking about something: "A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sit...

"Wisconsin lie exposed" is bunk

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I haven't done too much reading about the situation in Wisconsin. But, a few Facebook posts pointed to an article by Mr. David Clay Joh...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

2012 Budget Proposal - a Broken Process

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On my drive home today I listened to some Senators speaking about President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget. Their speeches reminded me of ...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

How to level the playing field

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In a conversation on reddit today, I read a comment that I think most of the people in the US and the "western world" would agree ...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

"Create jobs" idiocy

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If I see another politician claiming that they'll "create jobs" I'll probably cry. How did the electorate become so men...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What would be a good investment in the near term?

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Right now is generally a bad time to play in the stock market. The enormous levels of Federal Reserve interference in the markets (as well ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

New York Times article from 1910: doctor complains, medical prices are too low

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I've transcribed the text of this New York Times article since it's a bit hard to read in the scanned version . This is worth a rea...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

We don't need to pay more people to ignore the problem

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This is just asinine. WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The Obama administration plans to unveil on Monday a new plan for dealing with troubled...
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