…assets are worth nothing, I’ll gladly take all of your cash, funds in your bank accounts, and other financial assets. In turn, I’ll even buy a week’s worth of groceries….

…the increase in nominal household net worth. But even by this measure, net worth at the end of 2004Q3 was lower in inflation-adjusted terms relative to where it was at…

…it. Bush chose the wrong way. Pretty good line. – Lehrer: Was the war worth the 1058 lives lost so far? Bush: “every life is precious.” Now, here’s a story…

…of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told…

Worth a Day Pass James Moore in Salon on the media’s eager swallowing of the neocon/Chalabi tale, hook, line, and sinker, with a particular emphasis on the New York Times’…

…policy. … The highest figure ever recorded, 64 percent, say the result of the war in Iraq has not been worth the cost in lives or money. Only 29 percent,…

…access to life-saving and life-improving drugs? Surely not. What about this question? Is it worth $400 billion for the nation’s elderly to have access to life-saving and life-improving drugs? As…

…system”. Whether rising inequality should in fact be seen as condemning capitalism in this way is a question worth addressing in its own right. There are reasons to doubt it….

Greenspan: Stop Cutting Taxes and Fund Education Well, actually, he didn’t say anything about how to pay for more education. But if it’s worth doing, it’s worth spending money borrowed…

…world, up from 476 in 2003. Their total net worth jumped to $1.9 trillion from the $1.4 trillion the magazine counted in 2003. “After two years of significantly falling fortunes,…