Posted in Take it back on Oct 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Tom Brokaw got to pick the questions for tonight’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. He wisely directed much of the discussion toward the financial collapse, bailout and expectations going forward.
Unfortunately, he didn’t include any of the suggested questions published today in the New York Times, asked by some of today’s [...]
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Posted in Featured on Oct 1st, 2008 11 Comments »
That’s the gist of Tom Friedman’s column from yesterday. Here’s the heart of his argument, which is indeed worth considering:
Well, you say, “I don’t own any stocks — let those greedy monsters on Wall Street suffer.” You may not own any stocks, but your pension fund owned some Lehman Brothers commercial paper and your [...]
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Posted in Random Babble on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
The finance markets are going crazy and I need to know what to think. I’m a libertarian, so I’ve got to find information that will reinforce my preexisting worldview. Now, if I was a liberal, I’d read the New York Times to confirm my belief that the problem was too little regulation and [...]
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