voodoo economics

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• Another neo-fascist day in Venezuela

  
  Venezuela News And Views — Authority: 495
  This Wednesday we got yet another cadena from Chavez with a series of scary announcements. Chavez said that the opposition wants to win the National Assembly elections of next year so that it can make a "constitutional" coup like in Honduras to get him out. Besides demonstrating that his knowledge of democracy ...
  13 hours ago

• Paging Barney Frank

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 127
  The motel room seemed to shrink as days wore on, and their belongings bulged from its one dresser and closet. Papers. Clothes. Hair accessories. Room 267 had become a cramped way station for a family of four, far from what Daverena White had in mind when she decided to buy a house. via Fallout: In the real estate ...
  5 days ago

• From the “Land of CZARS” comes this Question: Did Government Move Too Slowly on crib recall?

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 138
  Coming from the land of CZARS, one is likely to ask which government moved too slowly – the Bush government or the Obama government or both? Sometimes the headlines coming from the “Land of CZARS” misleads. In a recent case the “Land of CZARS” said “ PEOPLE ” , when CZAR-land actually was talking ...
  1 week ago

• The real Venezuelan income

  
  Venezuela News And Views — Authority: 495
  Tal Cual today carries a rather crude diagram on what is the real income of Venezuelans, depending whether you calculate it at the official exchange rate of 2.15 per 1 USD, or the street rate varying widely from 4 to 6 per 1 USD. We are either the "richest" country of the subcontinent, or the poorest. Take you pick ...
  1 week ago

• Poll: Public shifting blame for recession

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 138
  CNN Poll Washington (CNN) — Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames ...
  1 week ago

• We are in recession

  
  Venezuela News And Views — Authority: 495
  All that huffing and puffing, all that barking at the wrong tree, all that braggadocio that we were immune, that as a socialist economy we did not care anymore about Wallstreet... and we got into recession anyway, after the other guys, but just as some of the other guys seem to start pulling out of it or at least ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smile Harder!

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 127
  In reality, the government report says unemployment rates remained steady at 9.5 percent. And the number of jobs actually rose, by 80,000. And the number of jobs for college-educated Americans rose more than in any month in the last six years. via Did Unemployment Really Rise? – Floyd Norris Blog – NYTimes.com ...
  3 weeks ago

• The New Voodoo Economics: Jobs ‘Saved’ by Federal Stimulus Dollars

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  The federal website that tracks the final destination of the $787 billion “stimulus” package reported more than  640,000 jobs were created or saved by the funds as of October 30. A closer look at one state’s reporting, however, should cast serious doubt on that number’s veracity. Washington state is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Think Happy Thoughts

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 127
  Oh, well. Maybe we’ll still get the monorail. Here is a graph showing the true effect of the stimulus package on unemployment. And the answer is: the predictions were wrong and the stimulus seems to have had no effect whatsoever. The Terminator said in a podcast last Spring that unemployment was going to be the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Voodoo Economics at Work!

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 138
  Voodoo Economics can transform a healthy economy into a recession within three years! The neocons, by and large, appeared to be true adherents to Reaganomics – known by many as Voodoo Economics. Voodoo economics appears strange even at the common sense level. The implementation of voodoo economics by the neocons ...
  4 weeks ago

• George H.W. Bush And America

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 138
  I just read this post on George H.W. Bush: The Bush Legacy: The Business is Personal U.S. News & world report by Jamie Stiehm, Thomas Jefferson Street blog Colleague Mary Kate Cary sent a black and white bouquet of words George Herbert Walker Bush’s way this week, praising President Obama for speaking ...
  5 weeks ago

• "Learn To Love Insider Trading," by The Wall Street Journal [Voodoo Economics]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Does the recent collar of terrorist-supporting hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam suggest insider trading as back en vogue ? The moving of markets with propriety information nobody else gets hasnt been cool since Wall Street ...until now. Love it , says the WSJ. The most basic definition of insider trading is: ...
  5 weeks ago

• Who Wants to Be Governor of the Failed State of California?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  f the miserable status quo continues and the Republicans succeed in their long-term project of turning California into a failed state the time might not be far off when the labor unions of this state... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 weeks ago

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