20 Questions for the Secretary-Designate

In preparation for Secretary of Education-Designate Arne Duncan's confirmation hearing in the Senate tomorrow, ... to improve student achievement and narrow achievement gaps? How should the federal government be involved ... use of static test scores or do you favor a model that compares individual student growth from year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:37:34

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DrumBeat: December 18, 2008

Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11

My Holy Place

I have not disappeared. I have 4 sick boys, and my week has been nuts. Still, it's Friday, the girls are gone to Pocatello, Redbeard has a temporary job, and other than a brief run into town for baby wipes, it's going to be a snuggle on the couch day.Sometime soon I am sending my laptop in for repairs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:03:00

DrumBeat: December 23, 2008

Steve LeVine - Blunder: A New Age for Russia In August, Putin’s Russia seemed unstoppable, specifically after its five-day war with Georgia punctured the appearance of a new era of U.S. power in the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia seemed the crowning achievement of a several-year-campaign of projecting Russian power over its [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 14:14:56

The Text Of A Speech I will Deliver Today To The Rotary Club

When Phil Dunbar first approached me on the subject of speaking I was somewhat hesitant although I might not have said so.   I am typically a shy person in a lot of respects, and tend to be a real homebody…and have always had some difficulty with the public speaking thing.   I clearly remember the first speech I ever gave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 11:38:00

YOUR TOP TEN CONGRESSIONAL HITS, coming to your neighborhood shortly, is the plan (stolen from Tapped): * S ... mortgages by bankruptcy judges, new regulations for the credit card and financial industry ... interference") and perhaps another go at the Ledbetter law ("removing barriers to fair pay for all workers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 20:47:59

Crafty Creditors Are Making Changes

This is a guest post from Tisha Tolar is a freelance writer providing content for CreditCardAssist ... . By today’s standards, a good customer can simply be late paying a debt other than the credit card ... and charges to accumulate, leaving you in even greater debt. Credit card companies rely on the fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:10:23

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/6/2009

Tuan Jim sends an string of important news articles about the gas pipeline crisis caused by the deadlock between Russia and Ukraine. He notes that the affected countries are dusting off alternative sources of energy — fuel oil and nuclear reactors — for electricity generation.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, C [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:50:00

Turned Into A Money Vehicle

A report from the Associated Press. “Existing home sales in the Northeast dropped more than 9 percent in October from last year, while the median sales price in the region sank 5 percent to $277,000, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. Michael Lynch, regional economist at Global Insight, said the largest economy in New England, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:48:32

The G-20 Washout By Mike Whitney

November 18, 2008 — dandelionsalad Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney November 17, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse“ As expected, the G-20 Economic Summit in Washington turned out to be a total bust. None of the problems which have pushed the global economy to the brink of disaster were resolved and none of the main players who gamed the system with [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 15:30:23

The Choice Has Been Made, but the Consequences Don't Have to be the Same

America made a decision about two months ago. We all got together--or, actually, about 63 percent of us got together--and unfortunately decided that we wanted a nanny state and would march forth, hand-in-hand and foot-in-mouth, toward totalitarianism. In 1964, America faced a similar choice between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 18:13:43

Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker

While you were watching football this morning and afternoon President-elect Barack Obama had a busy day, though part of it was pre-recorded on Saturday. We have three news videos below, plus the transcript of Obama's Sunday morning interview on NBC. First, the political news: He appointed retired Gen [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 02:01:03

Mr Mortgage Loan Mod Survey - I Would Appreciate Your Assistance

I need a favor from all of my mortgage broker and home owner friends out there ... done the right way.  I have swung completely over to this side of the fence as regulators, law makers ... is fully re-underwritten using present income and debt levels, prudent 28/36 debt-to-income ratios [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 16:03:10

Bernanke's Speech (Or we are all AIG)

The Crisis and the Policy ResponseFor almost a year and a half the global financial system has been under extraordinary stress--stress that has now ... confidence in credit markets. However, although the subprime debacle triggered the crisis, the developments in the U.S. mortgage market were only one aspect of a much larger and more encompassing credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:06:00

ArvinMeritor Completes Sale of Wheels Business to Iochpe-Maxion S.A.

ArvinMeritor Completes Sale of Wheels Business to Iochpe-Maxion S.A. TROY, Mich., Sep. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ArvinMeritor, Inc. (NYSE: ARM) today announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its Wheels business – formerly a division of the company’s Light Vehicle Systems segment – to Iochpe-Maxion S.A., a Brazilian producer of wheels and frames for commercial vehicles, railway freight cars and castings, for approximately $180 million. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-21 21:23:22

Transcript: President George W. Bush at American Enterprise Institute, Includes Q&A | December 18, 2008

(Source: White House Press Office) 10:44 A.M. EST MR. DeMUTH: Mr. President, what’s on your mind this morning? THE PRESIDENT: First, thanking you for being the leader that you’ve been, and thanking AEI for generating good thought. People in the public arena need to have support for philosophy — and that’s what you provide, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 20:43:07

RJ: LuvGuv seeks state worker pay cuts

Posted by Tazzie 9 Jan 2009Available at:http://www.lvrj.com/news/37325544.html?numComments=184(185 reader comments so far pasted below)Jan ... to include a 6 percent cut in pay for state employees, including teachers, in his proposed budget, a source ... to drive teachers away, wreck the education system totally, demolish it -- take 6 percent away and see [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:32:00

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU MAY BE Police officer saluted for saving drowning girlNEW BRUNSWICK HIGHWAY HIGH RISK MOOSE & DEER LOCATIONSNEW BRUNSWICK HIGHWAY VIDEO CAMERASNew Brunswick Weather: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:21:00

DrumBeat: December 14, 2008

Global oil supply will peak in 2020, says energy agency Global oil production will peak much earlier than expected amid a collapse in petroleum investment due to the credit crunch, one of the world's foremost experts has revealed. Fatih Birol, chief economist to the International Energy Agency, told the Guardian that conventional crude [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 14:06:53

Obama to Balance the Budget… Someday

Congressional Blue Dogs are commonly described as moderate or conservative Democrats, ... by supporting legislation that would make the House’s pay/go rule a law. “We have had communications ... team has indicated it favors “statutory pay/go,” which would make the House budget rule a law [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:33:23

Equal Justice Works Launches Student Debt Relief Podcast

If you are graduating from college soon and worried that your career options are limited due to your staggering student loan burden, ... of Law, Equal Justice Works has launched its first podcast show on the topic of student debt relief ... hurdles for any person entering a public service career is student loan debt – and law school grads may [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 17:53:00

A Further Critique of Romer and Romer

by cactusA Further Critique of Romer and RomerLet's take another look at the main Romer and Romer findings, namely that under some circumstances, tax cuts are good for economic growth. In the past I noted I have a few problems with it, but I thought I'd let the Romers work speak for itself as much as possible when making this critique [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 11:27:00

January 10 2009: Hornswoggled Absquatulation

Russell Lee Tobaccy Candy 1940 Pool hall, Shasta County, California Ilargi: The revolving doors between Washington and Wall Street are swinging like never before. Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin are the finance powerhouses in the upcoming Obama administration. They were in the exact same place 10 years ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:28:00

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« PreviousHarry Reid: Trigger Happy Next »Barack Obama, Olympic (Committee) Bound Latest Lie: "Death Panels By Proxy" Posted by Karen TumultySunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:17 pm 56 Comments • Trackback (0) • Related Topics:Max Baucus, congress, health care, senate, death panels, death panels by proxy, fear-mongering, medicare There they go again. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 16:17:24

Russell Kirk on Bush I's Iraq war

Last night, I came across a speech I had heard before, of Russell Kirk in 1991 in the waning months of the presidency of George H.W. Bush entitled "Political Errors at the End of the Twentieth Century."  It reminded me so much of our current time in the waning days of George W. Bush’s presidency, and war in Iraq, that I had to post it up [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 02:11:17

The Crisis and the Policy Response - Benanke

SpeechChairman Ben S. BernankeAt the Stamp Lecture, London School of Economics, London, EnglandJanuary 13, ... on many financial institutions and shook investor confidence in credit markets. However, although ... one aspect of a much larger and more encompassing credit boom whose impact transcended the mortgage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:16:00

UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO ITS HIGHEST LEVELS IN 16 YEARS: NEWS FROM THE USA

Jobless Rate Hits 7.2%, a 16-Year High:The nation lost 524,000 jobs in December, reflecting a pervasive fear among employers that if they fail to shed workers quickly their companies may go under in a recession poised to become the worst since the 1930s [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 19:09:27

Tapped Breaks Down the First Ten Senate Bills

Tapped Breaks Down the First Ten Senate Bills Tapped is reporting on the first ten bills that will be considered by the Senate and provides some ... another go at the Ledbetter law ("removing barriers to fair pay for all workers"). S.3 -- Homeowner ... Street bailout -- a larger part of foreclosure reduction. S.4 -- Comprehensive Health Reform Act of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:43:49

MCEA Sets its Annapolis Agenda

Following are the remarks of MCEA President Bonnie Cullison at the union's legislative breakfast this past Saturday. In attendance was the vast majority of Montgomery's statehouse delegation. Note the union's positions on the state school aid miscalculation, GCEI and teacher pensions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:00:00

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 05 January 2009

FINTAG COMMENT MOT. In the UK, when an automobile is more than 3 years old it has to have a yearly MOT. This involves a garage checking the vehicle is road worthy. Given nobody is stupid enough to buy new cars, with all this anti bling sentiment and old being the new black, many more cars will be having MOT's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:49:10

Laying Out Student Loan Options for CBO

Around this time of year our friends at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ... Grants As we have said previously, the role student loan guaranty agencies play in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program is anachronistic, inefficient, ill-defined and riddled [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:41:49

New Credit Card Rules and Regulations - The Good and The Bad

Note: The New Credit Card Rules Do Not Go Into Effect Until July 1, 2010 These days, it seems like whenever there’s a good thing going or some attractive opportunity for pecuniary gain or profit, the masses ultimately swarm the offer like locusts until they’ve completely ruined it for everyone else [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 03:28:28

Do We Have Too Many Lawyers?

Being a lawyer no longer means being able to pay the bills. I was concerned to read that law firms were trying to hold pay below the going rate of $35 an hour for contract attorneys in Washington, D.C., and New York, according to the National Law Journal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:27:19

The Fun Part – Assigning Blame

The piece I wrote for YaleGlobalOnline, which I mentioned in my last entry, was published today, and is called “US and China Must Tame Imbalances Together.” In the article I try to argue that the roots of the current financial imbalance – or, more accurately, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:57:55

Concentrating the Wealth, Pt. 1

Last week I ventured into the "spreading the wealth" discussion with a post attempting to unpack one aspect of why even some people who might be helped by the kind of economic policies Obama is proposing are against them anyway. It was a rather long post, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:33:36

Carnival of Personal Development Edition #3

Happy New Year everyone! I’m delighted to host the January 5 edition of the Carnival of Personal Development! This is the 3rd Edition of the Carnival and we have more than 80 articles lined up. Most of the articles are really good reads, so I suggest you bookmark this page and return to it every time you want to grow as a person, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:16:48

CT AG Proposes Law Allowing Only Nonprofits to Operate Debt-Reduction and Foreclosure-Prevention Entities Amidst Numerous Scam Complaints

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal proposed legislation last week that would allow only nonprofit organizations to operate debt-reduction and foreclosure-prevention entities in Connecticut and would ban up-front fees for such services. He said he hopes the legislation, backed by many... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:43

Algonquin Power: A Renewable Energy Income Investment

The Pendulum Swings to Cash Over the long term, market cycles are characterized by swings of sentiment, and changes in investor preferences ... attention because changes in Canadian tax law meant that the funds were changing hands, and I thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 00:01:53

DrumBeat: December 27, 2008

Oil giants are itching to invade Iraq For Iraq the timing couldn’t be better. As reserves dry up around the world and national governments tighten their grip on what is left, the industry is more desperate than ever to get its hands on the Iraqi honey-pot [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:00:31

Brownian (dis)economics

In an attempt to clarify what I mean by Brownian (dis)economics, here is an explanation ... a debt-fuelled boom.  Alas, what Brown’s policies have, in effect, created is a medium-termist (10-year ... )economics because they have had the opposite effect to what was intended, thanks to the trusty law [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:04:31

Obama’s Global Poverty Bill

BARACK OBAMA AND THE UN’S DRIVE FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Tom Deweese Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Senator Barack Obama has introduced the ‘Global Poverty’ bill and it’s on the fast track to Senate passage, probably because of his high profile position as the expected Democrat presidential nominee [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:55:54

As Hungary's Recession Deepens The Central Bank Cuts Rates In "Snails Pace" Mode

by Edward Hugh: BarcelonaThe fact that Hungary's National Bank did not decide to make an unexpected interest rate cut at its meeting earlier this ... at a “gradual and cautious” pace. The reasoning behind this view is simple, any more rapid reduction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:37:00

Obama and the World Crisis by Richard C. Cook

December 7, 2008 — dandelionsalad by Richard C. Cook featured writerDandelion Saladrichardccook.com December 7, 2008 We Hold These Truths by Richard C. Cook Originally uploaded by Lorri37 Even as preparations are underway for Barack Obama to assume office as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, the U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 03:53:20

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008 ... s exuberance), but also still be battling with the implications of the credit crisis for the global economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33

Congress Should Withhold Second Part of Bailout from Treasury by Dennis Kucinich

November 18, 2008 — dandelionsalad Dandelion Salad afterdowningstreet.org Nov 17, 2008 Citing Administration’s Failure and Unwillingness to use funds to Prevent Foreclosures, as Congress Intended Washington D.C. (November 17, 2008) Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 03:47:40

Why Even Good Credit Might Get Cut

(Photo: Dan Esparza) You can afford your mortgage, you have a high credit score and you pay your bills on time every month ... individuals account, as a form of loss mitigation. The problem this poses for many travelers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:35:39

Arne Duncan sails through confirmation hearing for Education Secretary. Duncan, Ted Kennedy statements

STATEMENT OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY AT THE NOMINATION HEARING FOR SECRETARY OF EDUCATION- DESIGNATE ARNE DUNCAN (As Entered into the Record) ... do all we can to help every student achieve, by providing additional time for learning during the school day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 01:57:42

The first one is to find a way (Business Receivership)

The first one is to find a way (Business Receivership) ... accountant or broker create the first contact and gauge interest. * Once settlement payment is complete, you will release us of any from further debt obligation regarding this account. * Other actual [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:09:07

As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia

“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,” ... by the conflict-ridden negotiations over Ukraine’s gas debt. And just to add to the nighmare, Ukrain’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18

Wave of Redemptions Hits Hedge Funds

Myron Scholes, the 1997 Noble Prize Winning Genius involved in the demise of Long Term Capital Management has done it again ... fund that lost $4 billion a decade ago after a debt default by Russia. He started Platinum Grove [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 06:51:00

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