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• Assessments and the tax revolt of 2010

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: Allegheny Countys politics have been thrown into a tizzy this afternoon.  Judge Wettick has ordered a four year rolling reassessment for the entire county as the base year system produces highly inequitable results.  Re-assessments are the local political career killer and everyone in the ...
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• Casino assessment battle begins

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson:  This is a casino post, while the next post will be a broader political-economy and municipal finance post.  The Post-Gazette reports that Allegheny County will assess the Rivers Casino in the near future instead of putting the problem off by hiring consultants to conduct the assessment.  The ...
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• Predictable Healthcare Problems

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: Something that I wrote in December 2007 that I saw while looking for another post, but is very relevant today: (I did not get all of this right, I forgot about the agenda setting power of not scheduling floor votes on horrendous bills, but Stupak-Pitts is the prime example of my last two ...
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• Karzais corruption pipe dream

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: The San Fransisco Gate is carrying a great whopper of a tall tale: With his reputation sullied by the messy election, Karzai gave assurances Sunday that he would rid his government of corrupt officials. "Individuals who are involved in corruption will have no place in the government," Karzai ...
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• Financial Planner humor

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 494
  I get this from a college buddy who is now a financial guy… It’s funny cuz it’s true — the older I get the riskier they both seem. And the joke came with it: Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune ...
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• ECON STUFF: Latin America Will Do Well, But Not Great

  
  Expat American Living in Brazil — Authority: 120
  Latin America will do well, but not great Brazil’s economy is on a roll now, but looking ahead the picture is not as bright as this article points out. Brazil has made impressive progress over the last 15 years, but it needs to make some fundamental changes to get the country growing faster. ...
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• This thing about the bees disappearing is no laughing matter

  
  Nancy Zimmerman: a canadian money coach (not a financial planner!) — Authority: 114
  photo credit: Jaroslaw Pocztarkski If you haven’t heard about it yet, you will over the coming months:  Bees are disappearing and the implications for our food supply are a whole lot scarier than you probably think. Eat apples?  check Eat carrots?  check Onions? check Blueberries?  check Garlic?  check ...
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• Corporatocracy 101 Part III

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  Commentary By Ron Beasley Barack Obama ran his campaign on the platform of change but by the time the election rolled around a year ago he had already been bought and paid for by Wall Street and the Financial Industry. James Lieber explains: Weve Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our ...
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• Mike in The Nation

  
  The Ambrosini Critique — Authority: 121
  “Let’s look at several of the problems that happened over the past few years in the financial sector, and see how legislative efforts have attempted to address them. (Spoiler alert: not very well .)” Mike tells this story: Our regulator’s goal isn’t to make a system in which there are never failures but ...
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• Corporatocracy 101 Part II

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  Commentary By Ron Beasley Yesterday we reported that we have the best government money can buy.  We have yet another example today. Goodbye to Reforms of 2002 It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President George W. Bush to sign, the ...
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• Getting Screwed since 82

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: Spencer at Angry Bear has a great graph that re-affirms the obvious; the American worker has been getting a smaller and smaller slice of a growing pie since 1982 and that decrease in pie proportion is independent of cyclical trends. The strong dollar or more accurately, the "high" dollar ...
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• Column on the Black and Decker Mfg Co sale to Stanley - in The Tentacle

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 511
  The Tentacle: Pulling the Plug on Maryland Kevin E. Dayhoff Wednesday, November 4, 2009 http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 http://tinyurl.com/ygnvfs2 Word spread quickly through Maryland early Monday evening that the Black and Decker Manufacturing Company is “merging” with The ...
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• This week in The Tentacle

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 511
  http://www.thetentacle.com/ Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/oc313 My other The Tentacle columns may be found here: http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41 Thursday, November 5, 2009 Happy Days Are Here Again? Chris Cavey Tuesday evening I joined the Republican faithful gathered in ...
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• Knock Me Over With A Feather

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By BJ Bjornson Admittedly, I don’t think this was too hard to figure out. Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to an analysis by a Purdue University researcher. . . . Fair pay for an average S&P 500 CEO should ...
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• Some Things Can Still Make Me Happy

  
  PowerUp — Authority: 121
  Make no mistake about it: I’m depressed as hell that my state became the 31st. state to vote down gay equality last night. But the result in NY23 is at least moderately good news, since it counts as a setback for the emergence of a real-life Christian nationalist party in this country. Seeing a statement like this ...
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• Casinos will solve all problems

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: Pennsylvania politicians are scared to raise broad based taxes even when everyone acknowledges that the state needs more long term and recurring revenue.  Gambling and other sin taxes provides for politically "cheap" money as those activities are voluntary activities that can be taxed at a very ...
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• 3 for 6

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 656
  By Dave Anderson: There were six races that I was paying attention to last night.  I thought Democrats or liberals would win the Maine gay marriage referendum, win on civil unions in Washington State and hold onto CA-10 by a decent margin.  I expected losses in NY-23,  and a blow-out in Virginia and a squeaker of ...
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• Crisis, Value and Marx’s “Order of Operations”

  
  Kapitalism101 — Authority: 108
  This is a draft of a paper I will be delivering, in some form, Saturday Nov. 7, on a panel called “Temporal Value Theory at a Moment of Crisis” at the “Rethinking Marxism” conference in Amherst. I hope to post a video of the panel next week. My apologies for the incomplete footnotes. I welcome comments. ...
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• Black and Decker sold to Stanley

  
  Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack — Authority: 511
  Word spread quickly through Carroll County early Monday evening, November 2, 2009 that The Black and Decker manufacturing Company is merging with The Stanley Works. The company has always had a profoundly strong presence in Carroll County because of the large manufacturing facility that employed generations of ...
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• "The Economics of Medical Care" Chapter from Thomas Sowells book, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, Linked at Investors Business Daily

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 496
  Dr. Sowell has granted IBD permission to run one of the chapters of Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One — The Economics of Medical Care — in its entirety. We are doing so because of its relevance to the debate over health care reform. The chapter will run in nine parts over the next week and a half. ...
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