Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve
February 22nd, 2007Homeless by Choice
February 20th, 2007I’m from this area, and the fact that this guy only got done by the pigs once is amazing. His vehicle is pretty good. Anything bigger and it’s an automatic bust. Via: Los Angeles Times: After a long day of film classes, working at the Apple Store, rock climbing at the gym and finishing homework […]
How Extreme Is Your Job?
February 20th, 2007Hamster on the wheel? It’s more like out of the frying pan and into the fire. Via: MSNBC: “The hamster-on-the-wheel analogy is the best way to describe how I felt,” she says. For Agoglia, quitting felt like her only option. It’s a feeling shared by many Americans who know that simply working hard isn’t enough […]
HOME PRICES FALL BY LARGEST AMOUNT EVER
February 15th, 2007* yawn * Via: CNN: The slump in home prices was both deeper and more widespread than ever in the fourth quarter, according to a trade group report Thursday. Prices slumped 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the fourth quarter of a year earlier, according to the report from the National Association of […]
PROPOSED U.S. LEGISLATION: EXIT TAX
February 15th, 2007As wealthy people attempt to flee America, the U.S. Government is planning to rob them at gunpoint with a tax on UNREALIZED gains on their property! Via: DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAIRMAN’S MODIFICATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE “SMALL BUSINESS AND WORK OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 2007†Scheduled for Markup by the SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE on […]
10 Stocks to Last the Decade, Revisited
February 15th, 2007Fortune should be called, How to Lose a Fortune. Via: Fool: Back in the summer of 2000, Fortune, a highly respected publication and home to many fine pieces of journalism over the years, published an article titled “10 Stocks to Last the Decade.” An easy enough challenge, one might surmise — simply picking 10 companies […]
The New PSYOP Payload: Bird Flu and the Collapse of the Internet
February 14th, 2007I’m still paying attention to the fallout from the incident involving the root DNS nodes. In the course of following that story, I came across the Strong Angel III operation, which proposed a scenario involving a pandemic avian flu outbreak with follow-on strategic information warfare attacks. Today, Slashdot linked to a story from last June […]
The Untold Story of Milk
February 9th, 2007Oh man, I can’t wait to get this: The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products by Ron Schmid. Via: Amazon Reviewer: Milk is bad for you. No mammal needs milk after being weaned. Raw milk is dirty, dangerous, and a major health hazard. Only pasteurized milk is clean and […]
London Is the New Plutocrats’ Paradise
February 9th, 2007Is it a coincidence that London is the most Orwellian city in the world? Via: Independent: From frenzied bidding for art worth £400m to a stampede for fine French wine, London is in the grip of an unprecedented spending spree fuelled by £9bn of City bonuses and an influx of super-wealthy foreigners. The capital has […]
HSBC WARNS OVER U.S. MORTGAGE BAD DEBT
February 9th, 2007Via: Times Online: HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, last night gave warning that bad debts in its troubled US mortgage lending business would be 20 per cent higher than forecast. The bank blamed the impact of slowing house price growth, which it said is being reflected in accelerated delinquency trends across the US sub-prime mortgage market. […]
