…view and not making any personal evaluation. *** the one sour note is “La quarta alternativa è quella di Carlo Nordio, magistrato inquirente a Venezia,” that is “the fourth alternative…

…the cause of austerity which is achieved by national unity and by ending intra-Italian conflict. Huh you ask ? How can a revolution be an alternative to conflict ? The…

by Linda Beal Perry’s Flat Tax Proposal The Atlantic has a good summary article contrasting Perry’s Flat Tax proposal (an alternative choice to the income tax, that is modeled after…

…to find one where Obama is to the right of the average American. The average American is eager to soak the rich. Obama prefers soaking the rich to the alternative,…

…will be gone.” The other party says “the best we can do is go small and pretend it’s enough.” There is no alternative source of growth in either of those….

…the US Consumer from the BlackRock Investment Institute, If long-term leverage sustainability is assumed to reside near 1990 levels, then the bulk of the deleveraging process remains ahead of the…

…that way. In this case wage flexibility doesn’t help the unemployed — it makes the alternative of working worse so they consider their horrible predicment the best they can hope…

…because the alternative will still–somehow–be worse. But I really can’t see how, in good conscience, I could defend the economic policies of a guy who has signed on to fiscal…

…Congress to pull back the money that hasn’t already been thrown away? Shouldn’t he be proposing some other alternative? (If the problem, as we were told a while back, is…

…instead with a standard: *Really, folks, does no one celebrate fifteen years? The only other alternative I could find that specifically mentions “fifteen years of marriage” is even more depressing….