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• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  The average person thinks he isnt.--Larry Lorenzoni As a country weve become less tolerant of economic failure. The result has been a series of interventions, such as meddling in the credit markets, promoting homeownership and creating a variety of safety nets for investors. Each crisis leads to an even greater ...
  18 hours ago

• Another Program FAIL?

  
  QandO — Authority: 138
  It appears a number of economists and financial experts see it as a failure. Not only a failure but an impediment to recovery . The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now ...
  1 day ago

• ‘Bushwhacked’ a fitting name for the aughts

  
  Oh!pinion — Authority: 119
  O ur Web rambles in recent days have taken us to a couple of sites wherein someone expressed uncertainty about what to call the decade we’re bidding a not-so-fond farewell to. After some thought, we suggest the “aughts” be nicknamed The Bushwhacked Years. It was a time when America was not only Bushwhacked, ...
  2 days ago

• The mission of Wall Street

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  Let us be clear; the mission of business is to make a profit within the laws of land. Everything else (social benevolence, et al) is a cost, which can only be afforded through profitability. The ‘failure’ of Wall Street can only occur in two ways; either laws were broken or the laws were badly written. The first ...
  2 days ago

• Hospital Security

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 149
  While I was on call yesterday, I tried to keep track of the number of passwords and security codes I need to function at work. The hospital has been converting over to bar coded security cards for most of its security, but many machines, computers and less frequently used doors require punch codes. Unless I ...
  2 days ago

• Regulation of the Day 93: Predatory Lending

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 540
  Congress has used the financial crisis as an excuse to regulate what it calls “predatory lending.” As so often happens, its new regulations have had unintended consequences. A bank in South Dakota, in order to comply with the new rules, is charging 79.9 percent interest for one of its low-limit credit cards. ...
  3 days ago

• Time of death: January 1, 2010, 12:01 am

  
  Hodak Value — Authority: 114
  That’s what a statistically improbable number of death certificates are likely to read due to our tax law.  No one will be able to prove which of the death certificates were fudged, or which doctors might have been fogging up the mirror for their patients until the magic hour struck.  But there is no question ...
  5 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• What more guns has brought...

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 151
  More Guns, Less Crime in 09 By Joe Gimenez Americans went on binges buying guns and ammunition in early 2009, worried that a radical leftist president and Democrat-dominated Congress would violate their Second-Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The effects? Less murder, robbery, rape, and property crime, ...
  6 days ago

• Doctoring The Accounts...

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 450
  Planning a charitable donation to a hospital, or taking part in a charity drive to get them a new scanner? Well, think again. Its likely to go towards refurbishing the hospital managers office or employing twelve new anti-smoking co-ordinators instead: Under new rules coming into force in April, hospitals will ...
  1 week ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  If we would know the power of truth we must emphasize it. Creedal truth is coal lying inert in the depths of the earth waiting release. Dig it out, shovel it into the combustion chamber of some huge engine, and the mighty energy that lay asleep for centuries will create light and heat and cause the machinery of a ...
  1 week ago

• The Unintended Consequences of Fascism

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 527
  Dave Hodges The Unintended Consequences of Fascism With increasing public dissatisfaction of the politicians forsaking of the American middle class in favor of Congress’ servitude to corporate special interests, many refer to our elected representatives as metaphoric whores who will do anything for monetary ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care History For The Holidays

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 109
  By now I figure most of you are partying or hanging with your families for Christmas Eve, but for those of you who’re snowed in or just too big a bunch of political junkies to get through the day without a fix, here’re my thoughts on the passage of the health care bill in the Senate. The work is not done. ...
  1 week ago

• How can you eat yer puddin if you don sign yer waiver?

  
  Daily Danet — Authority: 142
  How can you eat yer puddin if you don sign yer waiver?
  1 week ago

• Capricious prediction of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  The Public Option in healthcare is going to look like the public option in mortgages. Thats right, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  1 week ago

• Steven Crowder returns to Detroit and investigates what went wrong

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Here’s his latest video . (H/T Big Blue Wave ) I have friends in nearby Oakland County and it’s like a different world as soon as you get outside of the Detroit city limits. Detroit is a blue city in a blue state. Posted in Videos Tagged: Democrat, Detroit, Economics, Jennifer Granholm, Kwame Kilpatrick, ...
  1 week ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  1 week ago

• The Death Of In-Person Medical Conferences

  
  Better Health — Authority: 541
  Are medical conferences becoming obsolete? I think so. It was apparent to me at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions meeting and now a similar trend was noticed by Dr. Steven Sedlis at this year’s American Heart Association meeting: It felt like a ghost town. I ran into Ira Schulman, my medicine ...
  1 week ago

• A case study in why economists in Washington, D.C. should not lecture traders

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  on Wall Street . Too cheap to hedge, huh, Larry? Howd that work out for ya? Via Felix Salmon .
  2 weeks ago

• Unintended consequences--livestock production

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 450
  Or was it? New laws in Europe regarding the caging of chickens might destroy the industry and remove a valuable food source from the table. How to destroy an industry "Are EU consumers to be deprived of eggs based on the misplaced perceptions of flock wellbeing by extremists intent on destroying established ...
  2 weeks ago

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