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Category Archives: Economics
I think I’ll wait with filling up then…..
This is the Forward Curve oil price for Wrest Texas Intermediate. I’m not quite sure that I believe it….
Posted in Baffling me with science, Don't ask me, Economics
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The Limping Middle Class
Excellent New York Times article by Robert B. Reich. Premise: 37% of all consumer spending is by the wealthiest 5% of Americans, this caused by an increasing wage inequality since 1980. Unless this inequality is reversed (as it was between … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, This is important
Tagged New York Times, Robert B. Reich, wage inequality
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“People deserve the government they get” – H.L. Mencken
The Washington Post asked its readers for a one word thought on the Debt Ceiling debate and then put it into a word cloud. Idiots elected by idiots
Obama needs a Michael Douglas moment…
He needs to come up with a speech as good as Michael Douglas’s character’s in “The American President“ Something like this. My fellow Americans The issue at the heart of the debt limit discussion is as simple as this: If … Continue reading
