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[WSJ.com: Developments] On Strategic Default, Legislating a Double-Standard ...: Why no similar move by the House to punish strategic default by banks and corporations?  It is interesting that House Republicans are generally opposed to most regulation of corporate activities—preferring to leave the market to self-regulate—but have acted with House Democrats to regulate the economic activities of average Americans. This is yet another example of the double standard in America—one set of rules for Wall Street and another for Main Street—but this time the House is actually codifying this double standard.

[Finfacts] ECB Interest Rates in 2008: Fund Manager slams "wishful thinking ...: If this were to materialise next year, it would be the poorest inflation performance since the ECB came into being in 1999. Of course, it should be emphasised that the ECB see next year’s deterioration entirely in terms of the impact of higher oil and food prices and they also note that in 2009, which is the timeframe relevant for interest rate policy to have an impact, inflation should tumble to 1.8 per cent which is at or even marginally below levels consistent with the ECB’s target of price stability. 

[WSJ.com: Real Time Economics] FDIC's Bair: Incentives Needed to Cut Bank Size - Real Time ...: In addition, I will explain why an independent, special failure resolution authority is needed for financial firms that pose systemic risk and describe the essential features of such an authority. Finally, independent of the systemic risk issue, I will discuss the benefits of providing the FDIC with a statutory structure under which we would have authority to resolve a non-systemic failing or failed bank or thrift holding company, and how this authority would improve the ability to effect a least cost resolution for the depository institution or institutions it controls.

[Big Government] » Why the Financial Regulatory Reform is Flawed - Big Government: "The Senate reform bill quite plainly bans bailouts, and McConnell found himself under attack from all corners. President Obama called him out on this, PolitiFact labeled his statements flatly false, fellow Republican Bob Corker told reporters McConnell was wrong."

[The Radical Press] 1001 Quotes By and About Jews: England and the Jews, with our help, in the name of civilization and Christianity, have illegally made food contraband against friendly peaceable nations and call it economic warfare - viz: Jewish warfare - the Four Horsemen.” (War!

[The Big Picture] Deficit Hawks Want New (or double dip) Recession | The Big Picture: No good deed goes unpunished and O’B’s continuation of terribly flawed Bush economic policies ,I guess to maintain continuity during a time of panic, will now be used against him and the Dems running in 2010. A huge rookie error by O’B.

[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum] The Rastafarians: Leornard E. Barrett, SR.: Jamaica's economy is basically agricultural, employing over 40% of the island's labour force. Before the second World War, agriculture accounted for 36 % of the island's total exports in the form of sugar, bananas, and rum and comprised .

[15000 Useful Phrases] English Phrases - 15000 of them!: Ruskin earnestly counsels us to form the habit of looking intensely atwords. We should scrutinize them closely and endeavor to grasp theirinnermost meaning.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand | Space Based Solar Power ?: The authors of the Pentagon report mentioned earlier noted that space based solar “has the potential to be a disruptive game changer on the battlefield .[enabling] entirely new force structures and capabilities such as ultra long endurance airborne or terrestrial surveillance or combat systems” - which implies that there might be more than one reason for wanting to deploy space based solar power - like the symbiosis between nuclear weapons development and the nuclear power industry, it may be that space based solar power provides a civilian friendly reason for building 'star wars" type platforms in space.

[SamSederShow.com - unbought, unbossed] Oscar thread | SamSederShow.com: We are either going to hear them repeated by the likes of John Boehner and Eric Cantor as political attacks, or we're going to hear them from the mouth's of pundits, TV news anchors, and journalists describing a promise kept by Speaker Pelosi -- but only if she can shepherd the boldest campaign finance reform forward in American history.

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