Wall Street's curmudgeon-in-chief, Third Point's Dan Loeb, pens a letter critical of the President. A former Obama supporter, Loeb is turned off by the President's "smack downs" on successful Americans, otherwise "known as the 2%." His holiday gift for Obama's true believers: "He's Just Not That Into You."[View news story]
I am starting to get very tired of the hyperbole
Raising the highest marginal tax rates 3% is not "destroying" anyone whether or not you think it is correct
Chemical tests confirm parts of the Gulf floor show such heavy oil contamination that marine life may be threatened, and "there's no longer any action we can take" to remove that oil, says NOAA scientist Charlie Henry. BP's (BP) on the hook for damages, but calls the report good news for showing beaches and seafood are safe. [View news story]
I'd love to hear people express their views without using the socialist bromide in 2011
The confrontation in Wisconsin is all about busting public employee unions and has nothing to do with fixing a budget crisis in the state, Paul Krugman writes. Unions act as a "counterweight to the political power of big money," so big money wants them out of the way. [View news story]
my neighbor just told me he is about to retire on 14K a month from being a fire captain.
Facing complaints that it has reduced coffee-making to "a mechanized process with all the romance of an assembly line," Starbucks (SBUX) is ordering baristas to slow down and make fewer drinks at a time. Baristas warn the slower methods mean longer lines, giving rivals a chance to lure away unhappy customers. [View news story]
They make sugar and calorie laden drinks with industrial scale roasting operations
Nobody who goes to sb really cares about the magic
Obama's "economic fish stories," claiming that the stimulus was several times more potent than his own chief economic adviser believes, are becoming embarrassing. The numbers so lack credibility, they might as well have been pulled out of a hat. [View news story]
I'm personally regretting my vote for Obama
If we were going to get a traditional business as usual politician I would have preferred an more effective one like H Clinton now
The Truth About the U.S. Housing Market [View article]
Maybe I am reading the data wrong but to your point "Atlanta and Detroit made the 'least restrictive areas' list, but they also had some of the worst housing bubbles" doesn't seem to match the data as presented here unless I am missing something.
I would also dispute your assertion about this being a comparison of high density to low necessarily.
Over the whole urban area metros like Houston are rather dense and I know for a fact that San Jose is very low density.
The correlation is interesting but I am sure there are many factors as you have brought up.
My intuition as a lifer in the Bay Area and San Francisco tells me there is truth to this. I am sure that most "planning" is counterproductive where I am
President Obama will propose a six year public works program to combat unemployment, with $50 billion of up-front spending on roads, rail and airport runways. The administration says it will work with Congress to fund the plan without adding to the deficit, perhaps by cutting subsidies on oil and gas exploration and production. [View news story]
Public transportation fails time after time in the US because we don't have the landuse to support it.
Just building lightrail in low density cities is a waste
Obama's "economic fish stories," claiming that the stimulus was several times more potent than his own chief economic adviser believes, are becoming embarrassing. The numbers so lack credibility, they might as well have been pulled out of a hat. [View news story]
Honestly that sounds like the book Dubbya Bush wrote. Recall that guy ever admitting anything?
The Wrong Kind of Falling Homeownership [View article]
Where I live in the Bay Area there still appears to be a bubble
The area is also characterized by the "haves and have nots" geographically (San Francisco being unique, high prices and bad schools). It's either a blue collar suburb with very poor schools that has been devastated in this downturn or modest looking but upscale suburbs that have held up well and have prices disconnected from incomes.
My wife and I pay about 2K in rent per month. If we had a child we might need more space and might need to pay 2.5K
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says workers have stopped the flow of drilling fluids from a natural gas well in Pennsylvania that leaked the chemical-laced water for two days. Critics say hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - could poison water supplies; the company claims the incident posed "minimal" environmental impact. [View news story]
Without the threat of regulations imagine how polluted our environment would be.
And please don't tell me about the fantasy land where air is "owned" and everything is adjudicated based on property rights on earth
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says workers have stopped the flow of drilling fluids from a natural gas well in Pennsylvania that leaked the chemical-laced water for two days. Critics say hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - could poison water supplies; the company claims the incident posed "minimal" environmental impact. [View news story]
This is an inherent part of capitalism and why we need regulations even if they are inefficient.
economic efficiency isn't the end all when you are dealing with pollution of the commons .
The Truth About the U.S. Housing Market [View article]
This is a good point although if you look at the population increase in metro like Houston you would have to conclude that it is "desirable" to some people apparently as SF has hardly grown in 50 years.
Lots going on here without a doubt but the true bubble in SF was not within the city but was in the exurbs.
Mexico's birth rate has declined greatly recently to the point that within a decade you will be reading articles in mainstream press about "where have the Mexican workers gone"
Pennsylvania has become a battleground over hydraulic fracturing - the natural gas extraction method that is increasingly important to opening up new territory, but is also under fire for potential links to contaminated groundwater. [View news story]
Curious if you guys have even read the article or have followed this issue at all. The people complaining sure don't look like "liberals" to me but then I am a San Francisco native so what do I know
Wall Street's curmudgeon-in-chief, Third Point's Dan Loeb, pens a letter critical of the President. A former Obama supporter, Loeb is turned off by the President's "smack downs" on successful Americans, otherwise "known as the 2%." His holiday gift for Obama's true believers: "He's Just Not That Into You." [View news story]
Raising the highest marginal tax rates 3% is not "destroying" anyone whether or not you think it is correct
It is getting hard to take people seriously
Chemical tests confirm parts of the Gulf floor show such heavy oil contamination that marine life may be threatened, and "there's no longer any action we can take" to remove that oil, says NOAA scientist Charlie Henry. BP's (BP) on the hook for damages, but calls the report good news for showing beaches and seafood are safe. [View news story]
The confrontation in Wisconsin is all about busting public employee unions and has nothing to do with fixing a budget crisis in the state, Paul Krugman writes. Unions act as a "counterweight to the political power of big money," so big money wants them out of the way. [View news story]
jealously is kicking in again
Facing complaints that it has reduced coffee-making to "a mechanized process with all the romance of an assembly line," Starbucks (SBUX) is ordering baristas to slow down and make fewer drinks at a time. Baristas warn the slower methods mean longer lines, giving rivals a chance to lure away unhappy customers. [View news story]
Nobody who goes to sb really cares about the magic
Obama's "economic fish stories," claiming that the stimulus was several times more potent than his own chief economic adviser believes, are becoming embarrassing. The numbers so lack credibility, they might as well have been pulled out of a hat. [View news story]
If we were going to get a traditional business as usual politician I would have preferred an more effective one like H Clinton now
The Truth About the U.S. Housing Market [View article]
I would also dispute your assertion about this being a comparison of high density to low necessarily.
Over the whole urban area metros like Houston are rather dense and I know for a fact that San Jose is very low density.
The correlation is interesting but I am sure there are many factors as you have brought up.
My intuition as a lifer in the Bay Area and San Francisco tells me there is truth to this. I am sure that most "planning" is counterproductive where I am
President Obama will propose a six year public works program to combat unemployment, with $50 billion of up-front spending on roads, rail and airport runways. The administration says it will work with Congress to fund the plan without adding to the deficit, perhaps by cutting subsidies on oil and gas exploration and production. [View news story]
Just building lightrail in low density cities is a waste
Obama's "economic fish stories," claiming that the stimulus was several times more potent than his own chief economic adviser believes, are becoming embarrassing. The numbers so lack credibility, they might as well have been pulled out of a hat. [View news story]
The Wrong Kind of Falling Homeownership [View article]
The area is also characterized by the "haves and have nots" geographically (San Francisco being unique, high prices and bad schools). It's either a blue collar suburb with very poor schools that has been devastated in this downturn or modest looking but upscale suburbs that have held up well and have prices disconnected from incomes.
My wife and I pay about 2K in rent per month. If we had a child we might need more space and might need to pay 2.5K
A modest house would be 700K
It's hard for me to reconcile this
Right-To-Rent Becomes a Reality [View article]
We do
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says workers have stopped the flow of drilling fluids from a natural gas well in Pennsylvania that leaked the chemical-laced water for two days. Critics say hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - could poison water supplies; the company claims the incident posed "minimal" environmental impact. [View news story]
And please don't tell me about the fantasy land where air is "owned" and everything is adjudicated based on property rights on earth
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says workers have stopped the flow of drilling fluids from a natural gas well in Pennsylvania that leaked the chemical-laced water for two days. Critics say hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - could poison water supplies; the company claims the incident posed "minimal" environmental impact. [View news story]
economic efficiency isn't the end all when you are dealing with pollution of the commons .
We need to be reasonable
The Truth About the U.S. Housing Market [View article]
Lots going on here without a doubt but the true bubble in SF was not within the city but was in the exurbs.
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Your comment is ridiculously childish
Pennsylvania has become a battleground over hydraulic fracturing - the natural gas extraction method that is increasingly important to opening up new territory, but is also under fire for potential links to contaminated groundwater. [View news story]