Archive for the ‘Free Markets Solve Everything’ Category
Snake World
This is Daisy, who is, as you can see, blessed with great physical beauty. She’s even got matching beauty moles. She is somewhat vain in consequence. I tell both my dogs that they’re smart girls, good girls, beautiful girls. But with Daisy, it is definitely the latter that resonates. She takes in the sun like [...]
February 12, 2012
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Betty Cracker · 
60 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, General Stupidity, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Off With Their Heads
Excellent news (careful, link to Murdoch’s WSJ): New York’s attorney general on Friday accused some of the nation’s largest banks of deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that he said puts homeowners at a disadvantage in foreclosures. Democrat Eric Schneiderman sued Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo over their [...]
February 3, 2012
· John Cole · 33 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
Romney Releases Tax Information, Does Better with Florida GOP Voters
I know, I know: it’s wrong to assume that correlation implies causation. But look at what’s going on with Florida GOP voters. Nate Silver: Polls Suggest Gingrich’s Support May Have Peaked Polling released within the past 24 hours suggests that Mitt Romney may have stopped and possibly reversed Newt Gingrich’s momentum before the Florida primary [...]
January 26, 2012
· SteveM · 89 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Free Markets Solve Everything, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
Apple Can Afford To Do Better
The New York Times has posted a lengthy report on the conditions in factories that make Apple devices, and it isn’t pretty. “Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost,” said Li Mingqi, who until April worked in management at Foxconn Technology, one of Apple’s most important manufacturing partners. [...]
January 26, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 159 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
About That Class Warfare Thing
Buffett just seems like such a good guy: Buffett, a Democrat and Obama-supporter, had one question for Mitt Romney: “Do you think the tax system should be perpetuated?” He doesn’t blame the former Massachusetts governor or any of the ultra-rich for paying lower tax rates than most Americans and challenged Congress to make a change. [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 82 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Our Productivity Problem: US Workers Won’t Be Treated Like Zoo Animals
Foxconn, the giant Chinese manufacturer of iPhones has been in the news lately, most recently in yesterday’s Times piece on how they were able to respond quickly to retool to make glass-fronted iPhones: In mid-2007, after a month of experimentation, Apple’s engineers finally perfected a method for cutting strengthened glass so it could be used [...]
January 23, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 173 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Fire Walker Chronicles: Don’t Take The Money And Run
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker sure is endearing himself to voters this week as the recall effort has obtained nearly twice the signatures it needed to trigger an election. His latest antics? Becoming the latest GOP governor to turn down a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange, all but assuring that the [...]
January 20, 2012
· Zandar · 22 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Kochsuckers
A Novel Approach to Profit
This is pretty rich: Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments. The novel approach would have the funds arguing in the European Court of Human Rights that [...]
January 19, 2012
· John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
Class Warfare, Not Just for Republicans Anymore
Interesting: The Occupy Wall Street movement no longer occupies Wall Street, but the issue of class conflict has captured a growing share of the national consciousness. A new Pew Research Center survey of 2,048 adults finds that about two-thirds of the public (66%) believes there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the rich and [...]
January 11, 2012
· John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
What Mitt Romney’s Free Market Looks Like
Via Greg Sargent, this Reuters piece is a must read: The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City’s Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill. Gaping up at the cranes that swung 10-foot cast iron buckets through the air. Jumping at the thunder from the melt [...]
January 6, 2012
· John Cole · 83 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Republican Venality, Sociopaths
About Damned Time
This is a welcome change, and I hope it has a real world impact: The Securities and Exchange Commission is making a major change in how it settles some securities fraud cases, telling companies that they will no longer be allowed to say they neither admit nor deny the commission’s civil charges when, at the [...]
January 6, 2012
· John Cole · 67 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Clean Elections
Wow: HARTFORD, Conn.—In the past decade, most states have turned Medicaid over to private plans with hopes they could control costs and improve care. Nearly half of the 60 million people in the government program for the poor are now in the managed care plans run by insurance giants such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna. But [...]
January 6, 2012
· Kay · 87 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Free Markets Solve Everything
Kthug’s Slow Motion Nightmare
You honestly have to feel for Paul Krugman and the handful of others who have been telling us all along that austerity policies are bound to fail: Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity [...]
January 2, 2012
· John Cole · 37 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything
Department of Predictions
From this morning’s Toledo Blade: Investment from resurgent American automakers made big news in 2011, with General Motors and Chrysler announcing multiple large projects in Toledo and northwest Ohio that together total nearly $1 billion and should create or help preserve almost 3,400 jobs. Promise for the future of manufacturing in northwest Ohio was one [...]
January 1, 2012
· Kay · 89 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
First Thing We Do, Let’s Muzzle All the “Centrists”
Just as a sidebar, I loathe these ratfcking undercover-Rethuglicans with the heat of a thousand trashfires: ... Ken Vogel, Politico’s dogged money and politics reporter… dragged the Americans Elect leadership into a fascinating defense of their 501c4 status and decision not to disclose donors. “The folks running Americans Elect, they don’t know who the donors [...]
December 22, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 44 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything
