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    • Wed Oct 1st 18:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Cost of Putting Expedience Before Justice
      Very good article.
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    • Tue Sep 30th 11:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Too Late to Sell, but Calmer Markets May Lie Ahead
      We should take a page from Mao and send the traders and the politicians out into the fields to harvest the crops and shovel all the night soil they created.
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    • Tue Sep 30th 11:44 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why Have Things Gone So Wrong?
      Hear hear. My little midwest town seems to be doing OK. Houses are being bought and sold. People have their jobs and some of the business have "help wanted" signs put out. Grocery stores are still stocked. Electricity still works. Meanwhile, the world of Wall Street and Washington D. C. is in chaos, as the pretenders to great power try to outdo each other with their stupidity and their high titles and outrageous bonuses. Go home. Go away. Leave us alone.
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    • Mon Sep 29th 17:56 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bond Expert: Monday Wrap
      I certainly agree with the less taxes part. But it looks like Pelosi is going to go home without extending the corporate tax cut or without keeping the AMT at bay for another year. Taxes up, markets down.
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    • Mon Sep 29th 17:43 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Increase of State-Controlled Resources Threatens U.S. Consumers
      Our Congress is basically doing the same thing by keeping so much of our potential new oil fields off limits. They just do it sooner in the development stage and with less violence. Plus, Venezuela did it by demanding that oil leases be "renegotiated&quo... to a losing point for XOM and COP, which is sort of what Congress is doing with Gulf of Mexico leases. Rulers all think alike, don't you think?
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    • Mon Sep 29th 17:31 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Chevy Volt Debuts to Enthusiasm in California
      I basically agree with the novelty concept. I don't think a comparison with computers is valid. Computer costs came down because of ICs, and computer costs came down with computer size (a PDP8 used to fill the room, as I recall, in contrast with a pocket-sized iPod). A Volt is basically a Prius with a lot bigger battery, and a more expensive battery. A Prius, in turn, is a conventional car with a large battery and a small engine. Unless you see the possibility of the Volt battery shrinking drastically in size, I think the comedown in costs is not very realizable. You're still talking about generating electricity rather than just passing it along, as in an IC.
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    • Sun Sep 28th 11:52 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Does Not Translate Into Effective National Energy Policy
      "Drill, Baby, Drill" is not claimed to be (at least by Republicans) the total of a national energy policy. It is one thing we can do. Actually, the exact proposal is to allow drilling in new areas that we expect will produce a good amount of oil for the effort expended. The author's data supports this in a way, by pointing out the areas that are allowed to be drilled are getting so worked over that production declines. That's why we need to explore in new areas (coastal plain ANWR, offshore U.S. OCS). But if you want to compare slogans, it would appear that the Democrat's slogan is "Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill". Perhaps you could have a column on why that is not effective national energy policy, or even a small piece of a national energy policy.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 14:55 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bailouts: Misunderstanding the Moral Hazard
      A portion of the last housing bill was for activist groups like ACORN. It would be a small percentage of each Fannie/Freddie mortgages taken out.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 14:41 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      To Avoid Failure, Get Really Big; Everybody Else, Watch Out
      Because the banking industry exists to carry out the Fed's wishes, as expressed through their money rates. Your local hamburger stand can't do that.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 11:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Options Trader: It's Deal or No Deal Friday
      If the Chinese foreclose I vote to give them Washington D.C. and everybody in it.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 11:34 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Secret Villain Behind Our Economic Collapse
      Hic! Um. Burp.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 10:49 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why Friday Came Early
      Just let it go. And everyone in Congress and the newly elected President vows to take a four year vacation. They'll do less harm that way.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 10:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why Friday Came Early
      Justin Fox is just a typical liberal Time reporter. The purpose of cutting the capital gains tax would be to encourage people to BUY the toxic assets, clear them up, and sell them at a profit. With no taxpayer money. Some people obviously need a lot of explaining. Justin, please take an economics course or two.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 10:43 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Proposed 0.25% Trading Fee Per Transaction - A Bad Idea
      Here's a better idea. Every time one of us citizens trades stock, we receive 0.25% from a fund composed of all the campaign moneys of the polititicians, plus the refunded bonuses from their Wall St chums.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 10:40 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Proposed 0.25% Trading Fee Per Transaction - A Bad Idea
      The catastrophe would be that we pay for the catastrophe and then we pay another quarter percent to the same Washington D.C./New York City mob that started all this mess.
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