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  • The only

    Taxing the rich and only the rich is not going to make US a better place to live. Instead, it creates a dangerous disconnect between taxes paid and benefits received. For the past eight years we've had policymakers telling us ''deficits don't matter'' which is another way of saying ''there is such a thing as a free lunch.'' What we need right now ...
    Posted to Politics by abshandra on November 14, 2009

  • Good Points Worthy of Consideration

    Good points worthy of consideration. However I believe the term ''frontrunning'' has been misapplied by Mr Spitzer. ''Frontrunning'' is typically defined as a trade executed by the executing broker for his own account in advance of a trade already ordered by that executing broker's client and based upon information provided, or implied by that ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by MegaCynic on August 19, 2009

  • Blinded Regulators Can't Wield a Big Stick

    part of the regulation that destroyed transparency in the shadow financial sector required regulators to defer to private credit rating companies - rather than depend on government regulators to investigate independently the credit worthiness of the toxic securitized mortgage investments in this case, it wasn't deregulation - it was proactive ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by barry payne - economist on April 2, 2009

  • The Government Made Me Do It: Insanity Plea of Free Traders

    When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master -- that's all. (Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll) for ...
    Posted to Dialogues by barry payne - economist on March 4, 2009

  • Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

    I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009

  • Americans Fear Regulation More Than Competition

    if there's one message that has been force fed into the mindset of Americans by free market ideologues, it's that the only monopoly is government, all private business is competitive and all regulation is socialism. the myth that competition is unique to unregulated private business is at the core of the economic crisis, as testified to by ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by barry payne - economist on January 23, 2009

  • Bush's major impact may not be on list in article.

    History, say 50 years from now, has a way of changing perspective and values so the major impact of Bush's policies may not be one on the list. Two of my candidates are the reframing of the rights of the individual and the redefinition of executive powers. The financial crises for example may, in retrospect, be judged as a result of changes in ...
    Posted to The Big Idea by cl8doll on January 15, 2009

  • George W. Bush Is an “Old-Shoe”

    George W. Bush is the veritable “old-shoe“: Comfortable and unpretentious, also seemingly unmoved by anything - shoes being thrown at him, wars gone bad, huge deficits, the effects of insufficient oversight and regulation of the financial community, incompetence and negligence on the part of his appointees, politics driving almost every decision ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by mathpol on December 17, 2008

  • George W. Bush is the Veritable “Old-Shoe”

    George W. Bush is the veritable “old-shoe“: Comfortable and unpretentious, also seemingly unmoved by anything - shoes being thrown at him, wars gone bad, huge deficits, the effects of insufficient oversight and regulation of the financial community, incompetence and negligence on the part of his appointees, politics driving almost every decision ...
    Posted to Bushisms by mathpol on December 17, 2008

  • one thing to remember: LTCM

    Long-Term Capital Management thought it could beat the market by hiring the best and brightest, including many PhDs and Nobel laureates ... and they crashed and burned spectacularly. Enron had ''The Smartest Guys in the Room,'' and they too turned out to be too smart for their own good. Raw intelligence alone does not make sound ...
    Posted to The Big Idea by KanisSapphirus on November 17, 2008
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