Prepping for the State of the Union address
By: Daniel J. Becker With the state of the Union coming up and the current national attention having been drawn toward the question of the nation’s personality via reality mimicking…
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Hey anti socialist! You really don’t want to sit on UHC, Cigna, Microsoft, Walmart, Koch brother’s, GE, Boeing or Buffet’s corporate boards?
By Daniel Becker Just thought, being the new year, we might want to start it off with some actual new thinking about how to make our economic system better. I…
Trade policies, stimulus, and tax cuts
…Mulloy, a USCC commissioner, and Daniel Slane, chairman of the commission, were keynote speakers of a talk, “Competing with China: How the U.S. Can Create Jobs in the 21st Century.”…
Let the tax cuts go and you actually stick it to the top for real.
By: Daniel Becker (DOLB) On Countdown (12/9/10), Keith had on Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International Machinist Union. It was a chance for an “I told you so moment”in that…
The Class war summed up in quotes
By Daniel Becker I just want to lay out the debate going on in our economy right now. There are 4 debaters. President Obama/Geithner et al, President Obama 2008, the…
All you need to know to understand President Obama
By Daniel Becker I watched then read President Obama’s interview on 60 Minutes. The following is the most telling quote: PRESIDENT OBAMA: …And, you know, I can make some really…
Main Street America and getting to be middle class
By Daniel Becker We all know the arguments about the loss of good jobs. Automation, competition, outsourcing. We’ve been told that America was striking out to raise it’s status when…
Wall St. as tax collectors
…And anatomy of a tax sale describes the 17 LLCs traced back to one hedge fund: Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund led by former Fannie May chief Daniel Mudd,…
Tax cuts paid for? With job creation? Can’t get there from here.
by: Daniel Becker This is a simple little exercise that frankly I wonder why no one with a pulpit (that would be you congress critters, executive office and MSM) has…
Intermission
by: Daniel Becker This is just a little something toward the “get to know your blogger” department of AB. It’s just in case anyone thinks that we have no real…