Category Archives: Economics

Nessus Rising: S & P Downgrades US Credit Rating

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Eric Francis

Note, I am posting this a second time with better search engine optimization. The article below is identical, and it’s where the comments are collecting. –ef

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Nessus Rising: S & P Downgrades US Credit Rating

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Eric Francis

Note, this article was updated Saturday morning. Friday night, Standard & Poor’s announced that it had downgraded the United States’ credit rating. This issue was going back and forth all day between the Department of Treasury and S & P. … Continue reading →

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They stole it fair and square

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Eric Francis

What Republicans who refuse to raise taxes or raise the debt ceiling are saying, in effect, is that they stole the deficit fair and square. These bars represent what was spent by Bush Jr. (left) and Obama (right, projected to … Continue reading →

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Politico: Where US fiscal crisis negotiations are at

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Eric Francis

–DRIVING THE DECADE: At 6 p.m., “the President and the Vice President will meet with Congressional Leadership in the Cabinet Room to discuss the ongoing efforts to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction. There will be a pool spray … Continue reading →

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Sex and Politics in the Two Americas

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Eric Francis

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves I was an Edwards fan in early 2008. I applauded his Two Americas message, approved his aggressive stance against insane money and ruthless corporations. I hoped his record on litigation suggested a presidency willing … Continue reading →

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When Outrage Becomes More Important than the Crime

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: В There’s a lot going on to be pretty crazy mad about: economics, foreign policy, the environment. Not only now, but over the last year, the last eight years, hell, the last thirty or forty years. As … Continue reading →

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Blowing the Roof Off the House of Cards

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: What an interesting turn of events. Late last week,В corporate interests using a financial news network to influence the market was exposed through the take down of CNBC’s chief cheerleader Jim CramerВ by Jon Stewart of The Daily … Continue reading →

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The Strange Case of Stewart v. Cramer

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: What is illusion? What is reality?В I think anyoneВ who is fully awake knows there is a slim to nothing veil between the two.В  As a nation and a world swirling for the past ten years under Neptune … Continue reading →

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Ignore Alien Orders!!

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: In the classic 1980s science fictionВ black comedyВ film They LiveВ by John Carpenter,В  the hero, a homeless laborer trying to survive in the streets of LAВ stumbles upon aВ crate of sunglasses in an alley. PuttingВ them on heВ sees that the … Continue reading →

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Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: Lather. Rinse. Repeat:В  When you askВ the government for money to bail you outВ of trouble, please don’t use it toВ purchase a corporate jet. Don’t buy your company expensive week-long retreats atВ lavish spas when you get the government … Continue reading →

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