…67.2 United States: 27.4 Any room to bend the curve? Certainly looks as if there might be: Well, at least Turkey and Mexico can feel good about themselves. Happy Xmas!…

…price from the middle of 2007. By the time the recession is officially declared, the trend has started. And while Bear’s fire sale to JPM causes a decline in bank…

…was a charity work. How the Google book deal will handle such work is left as an exercise.) I like the book, and am very happy to have had a…

Mish sends us to “Track the Money,” recovery.gov’s breakdown of where funds have been sent and spent. He’s not happy, but I suspect he’s suffering the Jared Bernstein Problem: only…

…Goldman. This one has something of a happy ending: In July, the Beckers won a David-and-Goliath struggle when Goldman subsidiary MTGLQ Investors dropped its bid to seize their house. By…

…not see it in their business. I think this GDP rise, “we’re out of the recession” was just more of the inside the beltway pundit MSM happy talk. How else…

…relating her ASA experience. Fortuantely, her experience has a cheerful happy ending. And her closing line summarizes why there is such a push among people for a “public option,”; the…

…who writes at New Deal 2.0 “Happy Halloween: Pay Curbs are a Trick on the Taxpayer, Not a Treat” feels like an anti-climax…Greenberg is way ahead of the curve. Worth…

…and “Poll: Happy, Healthy Obamas Out Of Touch With Miserable Americans.” Well I’m sorry ghost of Katherine Graham turning over in her grave, but wacky headlines are just not enough…

…of money which make the PAC’s happy? One of the defects in DoD weapon system acquisition is the disconnect between what is needed to provide for the common defense and…