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Creating Fiscal Strife
One of the things that drives me crazy as an economist and a citizen looking at this so-called “fiscal cliff” is that our fiscal strife has been created by the people least likely to suffer from its...
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Fiscal Bunny Slope Updates
Good Evening! I’m trying to get through a serious patch of the dread lazies. All the rain and cold and glum has me in nap mode. But, I thought I’d follow up a bit to BB’s morning post that had some...
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Sunday Reads: Light one up and make sure you inhale that full bodied...
Smoking Santa…who would want to light up after a long night delivering gifts, right? Good Morning Journalism, is this what it has come to? Right-Wing Publication’s Outrageous Cigarette Review Sounds...
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Wednesday Reads: Flowered Floats and Fiscal Cliffs and Fruitless Lawsuits
Good Morning How did y’all spend your first day of 2013? Were you watching the fiscal “parley” of enemies down in the swamp? After seeing what as become Obama’s calling card, his apparent need for...
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The Agony and the Idiocy
Some one needs to take the shovel away from Joe Scarborough. He’s about ready to wind up in Siberia with that hole he’s digging himself. I’ve never seen such obsessive compulsive self-destructive...
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A Tale of Two Sequesters in multiple chapters — Chapter 1:WTF is this thing?
I’ve been avoiding this unpleasant subject because I was hoping dynamics would change and maybe patriotism, reason, or some semblance of sanity would strike the elected officials in the beltway. That...
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The Sequestration Blues: Part 2 Pete Peterson Creates a Crisis
Ben Bernanke joined the chorus of economists concerned about the impact of the sequester on the sluggish recovery. This is not the first time the Fed chair has commented on misguided and dysfunctional...
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Sequestration Boogie
Well, it’s here. It’s the day the Mayans predicted!! It’s the beginning of the end of civilization in the Americas! Sequester Disaster Day is here! Well, it’s here for those of us that like to drive...
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Sunday Reads: Cuba, Castro, and the Idiots at CNN
Good Morning We have come to the end of spring break, it is amazing to me how fast time flies by…I have some interesting links for you, some of them I have saved for a little while, you may just want...
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Wednesday Reads: Beg, Borrow, Steal…Maybe Blackmail Will Do?
Good Morning My fingers are tingling like they are being poked with hundreds of little pins, and since we have some rain coming towards Banjoville…my arthritis is acting up as well. So, this morning’s...
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Tuesday Reads: Hostage Situation
Good Morning!! I hardly know where to begin this morning. The insanity that has gripped the nation’s capital is so extreme that some kind of intervention may be necessary. Is it possible for the UN or...
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Friday Reads: Economic Anemia
Good Morning! Since I’m in the middle of revamping my course for Graduate Finance Students in International Finance and reviewing textbooks and the usual stuff, I thought I’d focus on the economy for...
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Tuesday Reads: Evil is as Evil Does
< Good Morning!!! I really don’t want this to turn into a mini version of my mom’s rants on “people are no damn good” that I grew up hearing as frequently as some kids hear bed and supper time...
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Woman in Red: Debate, Election and the Shutdown…The GOP’s Albescent-churian...
Good Morning As promised…I bring you the latest edition of The Woman in Red….(It has taken me days, in fact almost the last 24 hours has been straight on through.) You can read the earlier issues at...
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Lundi Gras Reads
It’s a beautiful day for Carnival Season today! It’s warm and sunny! We’re so overrun by tourists that it’s not the weather keeping me inside. It’s work and the Krewe of Chad who all seem to be...
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Friday Reads
Good Afternoon! Our Federal Government continues to morph into something hostile, xenophobic,and corrupt as we look at yet another weekend where taxpayer money will be filtered into a private resort...
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Monday Reads: The Wheedle and the Damage Done
Good Morning Sky Dancers! I continue to believe that a huge number of Christians in this country actually make this the least Christian country on the planet. After all, white evangelicals were the...
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Monday Reads: While you were watching the Circus Come to Town
Fotos antiguas de un circo espeluznante: Circo Antiguo Aterrador Morning Sky Dancers! I thought I’d remind us that there’s policy gone missing and forgotten while T-Russia and psychopaths continue to...
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Monday Reads: Bonfire of the Insanities
One of the “The Eight Omens” of the fall Aztec Emipire Good Morning Skydancers! I’m going to do my economist thing today because, my family, I think you need to know that the last year has been about...
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Sunday Cartoons: No Pay, No Backpay
Good morning. Well they finally did it…with two hours to spare: The final vote was 88-9. The nine senators who voted no were all Republicans, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Ted Cruz...
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