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  • Stimulation- Music Video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GszFafZWxik The title refers to the stimulus package recently passed by Congress. Sung to the music of “Celebration”, by Kool and the Gang.
    Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by mathpol on February 16, 2009

  • Stimulation (as in stimulating the economy)

    The title refers to the stimulus package now before Congress. To be sung to the music of “Celebration”, by Kool and the Gang. Karaoke style. Stimulation
    Posted to Best of the Fray by mathpol on February 8, 2009

  • Auto Haters: Fat, Mean & Undermining Green

    Economist David Gordon wrote in his book Fat and Mean, “In the 1980s, by common measures, the proportion of managerial and administrative employment was more than three times as high in the United States as in Germany and Japan.” He also wrote that the US has a higher percentage of supervisors than Germany, Sweden, and Japan ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Bibble on December 11, 2008

  • Meltdown: My Analysis

    First, I would like to commend my sometimes Democrat sparing partner on Slate, degsme, for pushing me into taking off my Conservative hat long enough to put this together…thanks Degs. Then I will apologize for the length, bad grammar and style that may irritate some. This is a complex topic and this is only my analysis as to how we got to where we ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by MaxAmoeba on October 12, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • Congress and the financial meltdown

    And Nero fiddled while Rome burned... The Congress failed to pass the bail-out plan today. Then they recessed and went home. Could they be any more irresponsible? The credit markets are frozen. There is no liquidity to meet the demands for credit, for the money needed to fuel the economy. Companies and individuals cannot generate the cash ...
    Posted to Moneybox by miragelady on September 29, 2008

  • Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -

    So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008