Study: Austerity Leads to Violence And Instability
Austerity and Runaway Inequality Lead to Violence And Instability< Study Shows That Austerity Leads to Violence And Instability A study...
QOTD: Blame the Corporate Lobby
Steven Pearlstein goes off on CEO’s and their corporate lobbyists — and why they shoulder some blame for our current fiscal...
FDIC Bank Closings
At a certain point, we may have to retire these charts — at least until the next wave hits us. Meanwhile, here are The Chart...
Synthetic Biology: E. Chromi
E. chromi is a collaboration between designers and scientists in the new field of synthetic biology. In 2009, seven Cambridge University...
Federal Finances: Budget and Growth
Interesting pair of charts from the JPM collection: The first very clearly shows what the 5 buckets of US government spending is: 1)...
Pentagon: We Cannot Account for Trillions in Budget
~~~ Source: Budget Buster: Pentagon Unable to Account for “Trillions,” Glain Says Peter Gorenstein Daily Ticker August 12 2011...
How the Fed boxed itself — and you — in
> This week’s Washington Post column is out, and its a look at what led the Fed to its current situation. Pretty much out of...
Screwed Up
Screwed Up is a lovestory and a story of not knowing a good thing until its gone. After a short honeymoon period monotony and arguments...
Weekend AM Reads
Some interesting Sunday morning reading materials: • Americans are angry. Why aren’t they protesting? (Washington Post) • S&P:...