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• Fight Back Against Wealth Destruction

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  By Frank Holmes CEO and Chief Investment Officer, US Global Investors A bill taking shape in the U.S. House would hurt you by imposing a transaction tax on hard working middle-class Americans who buy and sell stocks, bonds and other financial instruments. The sponsors say this tax would raise $150 billion a year ...
  9 hours ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Literature is mostly about sex and a little about having children. Life is the other way around.-- unattributed We currently have the best politicians money can buy. I suspect it might be conducive toward better governance should this channel of undue influence be severed. Can you disagree?-- Epicurean Dealmaker ...
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• Virginia Postrel on yet another way

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  giving is better than receiving : As Cheryl Strayed writes in a terrific essay in the December issue of Allure: Receiving sometimes hurts. Bad gifts tell us not who we are, but who the gift givers wish we would be—thinner, say, or a Japanese capitalist rather than an aspiring writer. Or, perhaps worse, they ...
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• This is one of those extremely uncomfortable cases when the right thing to do is the wrong thing. What do I mean?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Well, we all seem to agree that the Greenspan/Bernake money-printing, interest-rate-lowering, bubble-blowing economic theories are just about the worst ideas in the history of economics. Bernake has so totally screwed-up the economy of the USSA that nothing short of abolishment of the federal government and federal ...
  2 days ago

• When Congress writes lengthy, complex bills

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 566
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h The 2,000-page healthcare bills before Congress underscore the importance of the Read the Bills Act (RTBA). Let’s continue to pressure Congress to pass it. Feel free to borrow from or copy my letter . . . James Madison, Father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist ...
  2 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• The collapse is baked into the cake at this point. So we have two choices.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  1: Leave the gangsters in power, Bernake included, and let the system collapse. 2: Replace the gangsers with somebody we suspect is better (?Volcker or Paul?). If we leave the Bernake and company gangsters in power, they and their horrific policies will be utterly discredited. So at last we’ll have a chance to turn ...
  2 days ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.--Horatio Walpole The important thing when you have Asperger’s is not to be able to do stuff you can’t do, but to surround yourself with people who can.-- Penelope Trunk Federally funded jobs increase deficits, whereas private-sector jobs ...
  3 days ago

• The Dangers of a Live Twitter Feed

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 171
  It seems to make all the sense in the world. You are WPMI-TV, the NBC affiliate that covers southern Alabama and some of the Florida Panhandle, and you rent a big electronic billboard to promote your nightly news and weather team.
  4 days ago

• The Dangers of a Live Twitter Feed

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 172
  It seems to make all the sense in the world. You are WPMI-TV, the NBC affiliate that covers southern Alabama and some of the Florida Panhandle, and you rent a big electronic billboard to promote your nightly news and weather team.
  4 days ago

• The Dangers of a Live Twitter Feed

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 717
  It seems to make all the sense in the world. You are WPMI-TV, the NBC affiliate that covers southern Alabama and some of the Florida Panhandle, and you rent a big electronic billboard to promote your nightly news and weather team.
  4 days ago

• Bloomberg Magazine gets punkd

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  My hot-off-the-presses January 2010 issue features the lead: Carbon Capitalists : JPMorgans Blythe Masters says banks are crucial players in the global warming fight . Bloombergs news wires have been featuring the Climategate/Climatequiddick news since November 20, the first being a 11:34am link to the Pajamas ...
  4 days ago

• Public Prekindergarten for Poor Only

  
  The Newsless Courier — Authority: 118
  They never see somebody elses dollar they dont want to spend. Im talking about the Charleston County School Board, of course. In its rush to add more prekindergarten classes for low-income children, some members are planning to drive private preschools out of business. Oh, most of them dont say that, and some ...
  4 days ago

• My capricious prediction for the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  A carbon tax (or cap-and-trade) will destabilize relationships between nations.
  5 days ago

• More Money, More Fishing

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 717
  The island of Kiribati began to subsidize coconut harvesting in the hopes of encouraging fishermen to switch to the coconut trade and thereby help preserve Kiribatis reefs from the ravages of overfishing.
  5 days ago

• More Money, More Fishing

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 172
  The island of Kiribati began to subsidize coconut harvesting in the hopes of encouraging fishermen to switch to the coconut trade and thereby help preserve Kiribati’s reefs from the ravages of overfishing.
  5 days ago

• More Money, More Fishing

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 171
  The island of Kiribati began to subsidize coconut harvesting in the hopes of encouraging fishermen to switch to the coconut trade and thereby help preserve Kiribati’s reefs from the ravages of overfishing.
  5 days ago

• Killing trees with kindness

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 124
  From the New York Time s: Investigators are trying to determine who drove six-inch nails into hundreds of red pine trees near Backus. They think the vandals might have thought they were saving the trees from logging; about 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. But now the entire forest ...
  5 days ago

• Twitter Billboard Leads to Epic Fail [PIC]

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  A TV station in Alabama is learning that live Twitter billboards sometimes deliver unintended consequences. read more
  6 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  6 days ago

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