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[naked capitalism] The Summer(s) of Our Discontent « naked capitalism: Extra big stars go nova and blow up”¦ .Driving to Knoxville to visit Jenny, I noticed when the interstate got to Tennessee these new cable structures at various places along median strip.

[Business News] Truckload Shipping: Knock Knock! A Truckload Of Delivery!: However, it was not until in 1950s that this industry took a leap in becoming the number one option for the transport of goods when the American Interstate Highway System expanded. Kansas City StarBernanke Sees No Quick End to High Rate of JoblessnessNew York TimesFederal Reserve chairman Ben S.

[Rick's Picks] Deflation an Imminent and Fatal Drag on US Economy ”” Rick's Picks: The upshot of all the above is that, when judged by ACTIONS and not WORDS, people don’t REALLY give a crap about conserving oil, alternate energy, etc. It’s just politically and popularly regarded as obscene to say this …

[Holler From The Rooftops] Economy: Socialism for the Rich, and the Coming Depression: I wouldn’t predict a depression, if the government had just passed a stimulus bill in the area of the $12 trillion that the FIRE markets have received via direct bailouts, and Fed insurance of toxic paper waste and no interest loans backed by you ”¦say $12 trillion directed to subsidized manufacturing, keeping people in their foreclosed homes, nationalizing all insolvent banks, and instituting a massive nation wide urban housing and rail building project. This is not happening, and will not happen though the democrats have all the power to do it, and polling shows mass support.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil: Bernanke would be fired or forced out of office and replaced by Sheila Bair. The Fed would be split up into many more constitutent banks and reserve status would be given to natural resources much like the Weimar central bank did post- the Great Inflation (by means of rentenmarks).

[Economic Policy Institute] A rescue plan for Main Street: While this was necessary, it is clear that we also need a strategy to stimulate the economy from the bottom up””indeed, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently endorsed a fiscal stimulus designed to “boost overall spending and .Investing in national infrastructure””rail and mass transit, water treatment, school buildings and grounds, port improvements, levees and dams, and airport improvements””is one of the most effective ways to boost job creation and put money .

[Blog entry] Progressive Breakfast: The Incredibly Shrinking Senate Jobs Bill: Senate moving to further shrink size of House jobs bill, but may later pursue additional legislation. The Hill: "A Senate Democratic aide said that committee chairmen are beginning to coalesce around a proposal that is expected to be .

[Paul Krugman] Europe, off the rails - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: In the US freight locomotives move easily between railways, and while freight interchange isn’t perfect but is straightforward and all of the companies have strong commercial motives. In Europe interchange at borders leads to massive suboptimization of labor and equipment, many railroads see freight as a nuisance and have little incentive to expedite someone else’s freight.

[The Big Picture] Greek-Style Deficits in America? | The Big Picture: More compounded Government debt spending may bump up quarterly numbers enough to get politicians re-elected or to subsidize the hundreds of billions in compensation packages for banksters, defense contractors and for big pharma and health care insurance kingpins, but it will never constitute a recovery on bankrupt Main Street America. We live in Enron nation, where people like Madoff are only minor ponzi princes.

[Blog entry] The Big Fix (Hold On To Your Wallets): The next day, shamelessly, the two co-chairs and the staff director (all committed deficit hawks) will grace a forum sponsored by the Peterson Foundation, established by Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson largely to gin up hysteria about America's long term deficits.

[Clusterfuck Nation] Swingtime - Clusterfuck Nation: Another co-worker many years ago had a house fire, unfortunately he overlooked (so he said) paying his insurance bill, no coverage. One of the people living on another street, same neighborhood, a *jew*, helped my co-worker re-build his house, working every evening and weekend with him for many months, and solicited donations from his co-congregants/co-religionists to donate money for building materials.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - America's infrastructure ...: Please they think we forgot about Bernanke and Bush trying to pus their financial bail outs come on republicans think. Its not us democrats that want this country to turn socialist, so please do not say we are the ones turning this great nation into a socialist nation.

[Brad Setser: Follow the Money] Brad Setser: Follow the Money » Blog Archive » The fall in China's ...: China will “internationalize” (whatever that means) the Rmb when it suits them to do so, and my bet - if you mean convertibility - is two years after this Mother of All Recessions is over. As for a floating exchange rate (if that is what “internationalize” means), decades away, as Twofish says.

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