Saturday, January 11, 2014

Obama draws a red line in America . . .

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. . . of job losses, the worst in the post-war, 71 months and still counting.

Summertime peaks in full-time work continue to recover despite ObamaCare

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There is still no evidence that the numbers usually working full-time are in decline because of ObamaCare. Since the passage of ObamaCare in...

Those usually working part-time have not increased in number since passage of ObamaCare in 2010

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November 2008 through December 2013 And that's because the government measure of part-time doesn't care if you work 29 hours, 30 hou...

Crony Capitalism Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of Contemporary Liberalism

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Jeffrey Snider, here : Employment grows not on the pace of redistribution-derived consumer spending in the lower classes, but as new firms i...

New study finds psychotic episodes occur at an earlier age among marijuana users

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Yahoo reports here : Among more than 400 people in South London admitted to hospitals with a diagnosed psychotic episode, the study team fou...
Friday, January 10, 2014

December 2013 Unemployment Falls To 6.7%, Total Nonfarm Jobs Up Only 74,000

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The employment situation report for December 2013 is here . The headline rate falls to 6.7% ending 5 years of unemployment at or above 7%, w...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Drudge's New Headline Writer Can't Spell To Save His Life: Makes At Least 6 Errors This Morning

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knockout roommate opponents' children's anti-Semitic Fournier
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Rush Limbaugh Today Totally Botches Income Quintiles On The Program

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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The relevant passage is here : Poverty is expressed a...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

24hour Minimum Temperatures In The Lower 48 Yesterday And Today

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Monday, January 6, 2014

Hey, Uncle Si Will Take Your Underwear Clean Off Your Butt!

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Hey Obama! We Could USE A Prolonged Period Of Excessively High Temperatures Right About Now!

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Polar Temperatures Well Below Zero Invade The Heart Of America

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Temperatures before 8:00 AM Eastern:

"Ben Bernanke Has An Almost Unbroken Record Of Being Wrong"

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Bye Bye Ben. Seen here : Ben Bernanke has an almost unbroken record of being wrong. In 2006, at the zenith of the housing bubble, he told Co...

Peter Wallison Says The Housing Bubble Is Back

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Here in The New York Times, where he blames sub-prime down payments, not interest rates: Between 1997 and 2002, the average compound rate o...

Obama Has Completed 160 Golf Outings In The Last 5 Years: The Practice Hasn't Helped

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White House Dossier here  reports that the president golfed 9 out of the 15 days while on his Hawaiian vacation, which means Moochelle was p...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

We Will Barry You

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h/t Theo
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Vanguard's Worst Performing Bond Funds In 2013

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Long Term Treasury Fund, VUSTX:                          -13.03% Long Term Government Index Fund, VLGSX:     -12.74% Long Term Bond Index Fu...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Antarctic Global Warming Scientists Rescued, But Rescue Ship Also Gets Stuck In Ice: Story Never Mentions It's Summer In Antarctica

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Chinese Snow Dragon stuck in ice after rescue Why would they go there at this time if they didn't think they could get to Antarctica? Th...

Current Fair Value Of The S&P500 Is . . . 1005

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Doug Short updates his regression analysis for the S&P500, adjusted for inflation, to come up with the S&P500 today about 80% above ...

Obama's Unemployment Level Is Still 20% Worse Than It Was Under Reagan And Remains The Worst In The Post-War

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The average annual unemployment level in the post-war has never been worse than under Obama. The unemployment level under Obama 2008-2013 st...