While I’m trying to decide whether unmanaged funds are preferrable to mismanaged ones, and wondering whether any discussion of Mark Cuban (I like the picture better than CNN’s) belong here,*…

…before Mr. Miller’s Education and Labor Committee on her proposal. George Miller: Looking at redirecting tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts. At that hearing, the director…

…contains no safeguards against the possibility that banks will simply sit on the money. “Unlike the British government, which is mandating lending requirements in return for capital injections, our government…

…join unions to improve working conditions. A book review considered whether globalization could improve working conditions. Two articles mentioned legislation that took working conditions into account. One article disputed that…

…and households, generally, to restore their balance sheets through more conservative spending patterns. Getting the economy going again will require getting the banks on a sound footing, so that mortgage…

Hat tip Movie Guy China reverting to form as the world’s workshop By Peter Marsh Published: August 11 2008 03:00 Excerpts: China is set to overtake the US next year…

…Kevin Drum noted that, according Peter Nicholas of the the LA Times Obama was only a few tens of billions short of adding up counting the expiry of the Bush…

…4. DollarCollapse.Com 5. Angry Bear 6. Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis 7. Naked Capitalism 8. Peter Schiff 9. GREG MANKIW’S BLOG 10. The mess that greenspan made Barry had a…

…Institute Martin Weitzman, Harvard University Peter Wilcoxen, Syracuse University Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University Anyone you know? The report is quite long, and I have not scanned it. Perhaps another person?…

…Real reform, therefore, may require constitutional change that effectively limits the taxing and spending powers of government.” The Cato types see it as welfare, they disagree with government welfare programs…