Friday, October 30, 2009

My Kind of Ditto Head

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

"A Sham GDP for a Sham Economy"

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OCTOBER 29, 2009, 1:18 PM ET Mean Street: A Sham GDP for a Sham Economy By Evan Newmark Americans rejoice! GDP grew by 3.5% in the third qua...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Parable of Old Butch the Rooster

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From the blog Too Much Liberty: A Parable John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens) called 'p...

The Banks Must Be Restrained

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Total bank failures year to date reached 106 yesterday, bringing the total cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund this year to about $25 bi...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Hu, Wen, Deng, Obamao

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5 RMB each, Joy City, Xidan, Summer 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009

90 Jobs--10,000 Applicants/99.1% Disappointed

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The country needs to create roughly 150,000 new jobs per month just to keep up with first time job seekers, but the inventory of already une...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Keynesian Moment: Markets Can Stay Irrational Far Longer Than You Can Stay Solvent

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Very thoughtful and wise words of warning today, making sense of the nonsense, from Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture. For the original...
Friday, October 2, 2009

Congratulations, chicagoansforrio.com!

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Congratulations Chicagoans! You escaped a financial catastrophe of Olympic proportions. Now if you could just get rid of Daley, Stroger, and...

Chemical Castration for Pedophiles in Poland

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Roman Polanski maintains citizenship in two countries. One of them is Poland. Let's send him there for justice. Poland okays forcible ca...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Myth of the Obama Mandate 2008

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The supporters of Barack Obama like to point to his 9.5 million vote margin of victory over John McCain in last year's election as evide...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

John Smith Looks for a Job

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John Smith started the day early, having set his alarm clock (made in Japan) for 6:00 AM. While his coffeepot (made in China) was perking, h...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Oba Mao

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Why does an entrepreneur in Beijing think Mao and Obama are kindred spirits?   Maybe because they are?    
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A Prayer for President Obama

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"May God bless and keep the president, far away from us. Amen."
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Sons of Liberty and Nullification of State Power

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The nullification of the power of the British state during the American "Revolution" actually prevented a revolution as far as the...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

An Open Letter to President Obama

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Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare m...