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[FreedomWorks blogs] 1 Year Later: Obama's Approval Rating Plummeting | FreedomWorks: Reckless spending, big-government takeovers and secrecy are the opposite of what we were promised. We were instead promised a transparent and fiscally responsible government--which is where the center of American politics is, where the Tea Party movement is, and is what Massachusetts newly elected Senator Scott Brown ran on--and why he was elected.

[Clusterstock] Mysterious Direct Bidding Strength Leads Traders To Suspect A ...: U.S. equity markets), and none of their time making loans to people and businesses in the United States. No wonder these reckless fatcats turned around 180 deg in 1 year!

[Don Surber] Not a good week to be a liberal « Don Surber: You'd also wonder, now, how the bamster was teaching Constitutional Law at Chicago (once a famed law school); given how little he knows about the US Constitution. And, it's debates. Up ahead? As president the bamster can select replacement parts for the Pentagon. As well as for the Supreme's. .... However, an reckless splurge, such as a 'stimulus' which is farmed out to cronies, blasting the annual deficit into orbit while stimulating nothing, is not a wise investment. ...

[Clusterstock] It's Not Too Late: Don't Let The Consumer Financial Protection ...: Eventually, the sale and re-sale of deceptive mortgages and other dangerous products made trillions of dollars for Wall Street while bringing down the American economy. When the industry’s recklessness brought the biggest banks to the brink of collapse, Wall Street turned to the taxpayers for bailouts and guarantees, which put it right back into big profits and big bonuses.

[iTulip.com] Asylum Markets of the post FIRE Economy - Part I: Locked Up - Eric ...: \nThirty years of the FIRE Economy, with its asset inflations, deflations, and reflations, its special relationships with foreign lenders who financed the game, its tax and regulatory programs geared to asset special interests, its public debt policy to take from the future and give to the present, brought us here—to the Market Asylum. It’s a place where interest rates cannot be raised, nor lowered, because at rock bottom they sit at the level where the over-leveraged private and public sectors need them to stay.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » The Irish Economy in 2010: “If international investors are ”˜impressed’ by the Irish government’s ”˜difficult decisions’ then it’s because the country is so small it never occurs to them that exploded out to a US or UK scale these ”˜difficult decisions’ would spark revolution. They see Irish decision makers and they do not see power: they see the hapless global village idiot State and they feel (delete whatever doesn’t apply in the situation) 1) charmed or 2) pity.”

[*SUSAN LOONE's Blog*] When it comes to RPK's son, wow, so efficient ! « *SUSAN LOONE's Blog*: calvin tan. May 20, 2009 at 2:59 pm | #131. Quote. hey wake-up economy is picking up not b`cos of a leader`s doing but it is yours n my money @ EPF is doing the wonders remember 60 billion value cap. anonymous dud. May 20, 2009 at 3:00 pm | #132 ..... I also recall Tony Blair's son being hauled up by the Metropolitan Police for reckless driving and Tony didn't give a flying f..k if his son was charged or fined or jailed for a week. An offense is an offense. ...

[Labourhome] Labourhome » Blog Archive » The Death of Labour: The reckless antics of the City of London were encouraged by Brown as a source of revenue. Those reckless antocs were also stoked via a deliberately fueled housing market, artificially low interest rayes, unrestrained consumer borrowing and a credit fre-for-all which the government pushed all the way because of the revenue stream from VAT etc it was producing.

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Wages of Failure: Exec Comp at ...: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Holger Spamann, Harvard University - Harvard Law School .were perhaps not coincidentally the reason private partnerships survived the crisis do not seem so enormous when it seems rather safe to assume no executive would willfully drive their firm into the ground on account of compensation to be gained despite reckless risks being taken.

[The Radical Press] The Radical Press » Blog Archive » Extortion charges against Wiebo ...: In this final, yet relevant category of Plant’s report, he again makes mistaken reference to what he calls the “West County Community Council” and attributes their biased remarks to the general community at large when he suggests that there is a “…widely held belief in the community that the Justice System was too lenient on LUDWIG”.  As the Trickle Creek residents rightly point out making such a statement again is in error because, “This comment contradicts the fact. As Plant reports, he only talked to one WCCC person and 2 local police officers and excluded ”˜the many supporters of the Ludwigs from outside their immediate group.’ Therefore, how can the report truthfully say it is a ”˜widely held belief’?

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » No Billionaire Left Behind: That would potentially enable us to stop royally fucking our economy with the race to the bottom mentality that seems to be prevalent in every business today (more $ in the hands of the masses, means more $ to buy goods built in this country…simplistic, but bear with me here). Unfortunately, with the media long-captured by wealthy interests as demonstrated by their willingness to publish propaganda like this article, and with the wealthy able to protect themselves from the outcome of their economy-fucking behavior, I honestly and truly believe that it’s going to take social upheaval with some heads rolling to get real change.

[Mises Economics Blog] Sticking to the Official Narrative - Mises Daily - Mises Economics ...: Viirlaid said, "don't underrate yourself". You and others here are far, far more articulate regarding freedom, free-markets and the unseen negative consequences of government intervention as opposed to those, usually members of the R party, who talk about freedom and free-markets but don't have the first clue, and couldn't explain it if their lives depended on it.

[The Most Important Blog... Ever] The Most Important Blog”¦ Ever - Envelope Please”¦ The Lovely Awards ...: these were all hallmarks of the conservative ascendency that reached its culmination in this decade.  And the spectacular embarrassment seen with the awful images of Katrina showcased the failure of conservative ideology better than any other event. 

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