lancemannion.typepad.com - 3/20/2009
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Various types of rich people in this country, none of which I am, but that's just too bad for me. We've got our legacies, the beneficiaries of inherited wealth, heirs and heiresses who were born on top of piles and piles of money. We've got our celebrity rich, movie stars, rock stars, ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 3/26/2009
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Today, House Republicans released their budget plan, entitled
“ The Republican Road To Recovery .” They claim...
the plan “curbs spending, creates jobs and lowers taxes, and controls the debt; and it will soon have our economy growing ...
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Republican Budget Plan: ‘Undo’ The Stimulus, Cut Taxes ...
firedoglake.com - 3/23/2009
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firedoglake.com —
Timothy Geithner's new TALF plan, like all his
other plans, seems designed to shovel billions into the...
coffers of the very same bankers who got rich on the mortgage bubble. When the public gets a glimpse of the tip of this giant iceberg, as they did ...
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Timothy Geithner: Making Countrywide Executives Rich Again
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The Sideshow —
... that it's owned by the wheeler-dealers. And that leaves it with no ability to counter crude populism." "AIG unit sues Countrywide over loan losses: A unit of embattled insurer American International Group Inc. filed suit against mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. in California federal court Thursday, alleging Countrywide misrepresented the health of loans that the company insured, resulting in massive losses." It's a gang war! Lance Mannion on rich people, and bonuses. Sam Seder and Bobby Kennedy on Ring of Fire, on eight ...
If Economics Ever Wants To Be A Real Science ...
Open Left - Front Page —
... were talking about.
Feynman, again, was a physicist. I never made it all the way to physics, calculus was grueling enough at the time, but I have it on good authority that it's hard.
As this programmer, also inspired by that principle, said, when people can't explain themselves without speaking in jargon salad, they're either clueless themselves or are trying to baffle you with bull.
No Jargon
Thing is, the real estate market has been a lie for years and some thieving parasites (via) used that lie to defraud the home-buying public. Other ...
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