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Quit Doling Out That Bad-Economy Line

…yet account for 52 percent of foreclosures. This suggests that today’s mortgage difficulties are probably a side effect of the otherwise happy fact that….. The rest is over at WAPO…rdan…

One Alaskan’s take on the Palin business

…that before the McCain camp got involved, the Governor stated of the Legislative investigation: “That being the route they choose, so be it. I’m happy to comply, to cooperate.” (KTUU.com,…

Spend the billions on F and F a different way?

…this money to keep shareholders happy, why not divide the money by the amount of money all people owe on their mortgages and then grant them a once off government…

Peak Oil and prices in two years from now

…be happy with over the next 3 years. And that, of course, will keep the diastolic blood pressure of the economy at dangerous levels. ——————– by reader One Salient Oversight…

Angry Bear Center for School Teachers

…from other countries happy that they got stuck holding questionable securities. But again, take the cost and concentrate it, and the U.S. economic picture looks worse yet. And with other…

Where are the Household Entrepreneurs?

Glancing through the CBO survey that only checked one side of the ledger, and therefore made Greg Mankiw happy, I came across the data on Corporate Taxes paid, by Quintile…

Global Warming costs: another view

…the arithmetic quite so happy about CO2? The Senate bill may very well have failed because these issues became public knowledge and more fully understood by some of the Senators….

STOCK MARKET VALUATION

…thing the late 1800s was so great would really be happy with decades of falling earnings or profits. Since WW II earnings growth has become much more stable and market…