Pound for Dollar
January 27, 2011The Brits feel the ugly pinch of wasted economics: The UK economy shrank by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as Britain’s recovery from recession faltered. … Economists said the first estimate…
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Krugman at 4 AM — Jobs Limited
December 6, 2010Trying to find a job in the US is getting to be worse than a bitch. From Calculated Risk: For the current employment recession, employment peaked in December 2007, and this recession is by far…
Krugman at 4 a.m. — Home and Hearth
October 15, 2010One of the key ingredients that formed the great “American Dream” was having your own home — king of the castle/manor/vast holdings. So it was for years and years: Hard work, thrift and owning your…
Krugman at 4 A.M.
October 8, 2010Job hunting will apparently go from bad to worse and then beyond. From Gallup yesterday: Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 10.1% in September — up sharply from 9.3% in August…
Slumping Toward Disaster
October 5, 2010“…she has trouble acting normal when she’s nervous…” — ‘Round Here, Counting Crows Just to really, really wanted to brighten up your morning. First, the International Monetary Fund admits that Europe, and the US, is…
Krugman at 4 a.m.
September 20, 2010Famous, mega-rich person, Marie Antoinette, has been credited, though not so in reality, with the ugly phrase, “Let them eat cake” when observing the starving poor — a similar asshole stance from GOP wag, US…
Krugman at 4 a.m.
August 30, 2010In keeping with the reality of early morning, it’s always a heart-touching, easy embrace to read Nobel Prize-winner and NYT columnist Paul Krugman, especially on Mondays — in a quiet, peaceful pre-dawn it’s hard to…
Blind Oversight
July 27, 2010Long ago, when in high school, I lost almost $100 somewhere after a shopping trip. My mother — always aware of how a bit means a lot, and even with the money being my own…
Slow-Melt Irony
November 21, 2009One of the great turds of the US political system, Sen. James Inhofe, yes, that silly-assed Republican from Oklahoma, displayed a most-marvelous bit of horror-irony this week as he tweaked the future and all those to…
Home the Buck
November 2, 2009Home is not the castle so trumped years ago — now it’s nothing more than a file in the immoral portfolio of US banking’s financial system. A system that’s so skewed you can’t tell the…