DISQUS

paulbe · 1 year ago

Oh they get it alright, they just couldn't give a rats arse.

Andrew · 1 year ago

Whether inflation, war, political lies or an ever increasing Big Brother syndrome in the USA, Ron Paul just came out with an address that names names and points the finger at the doorstep of those who continue to destroy our republic. I doubt any of the names will come as a surpise.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=911_1210767551

ThingsComeUndone · 1 year ago

OT how did Europe convince their insurance companies to go along with national healthcare?

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Obama is now soaring.

Gallup Poll shows a 11 point lead over Hillary.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/107329/Gallup-Daily-...

steve303 · 1 year ago

The government has been fast and loose with real inflation numbers for year -- partially in an attempt to keep COLAs low. The crazy adjustments used to calculate CPI are just unreal -- price increases are offset whenever the manufacture makes a slight change to the product, as it's assumed to be an additional feature for the consumer. Estimates of the actual consumer inflation rate have placed it between 7.5% - 9% per year. Meanwhile, wages remain stagnant, and we are told everything is great because we can borrow more money to offset the day to day increases due to inflation. I suppose this is what you get when you have an MBA running fiscal policy.

ThingsComeUndone · 1 year ago

We need a regular posting once a week of real economic numbers vs Bush's imaginary numbers we need a place investors for small investors to get real numbers rather than try guessing which government number is false or which MSM talking head is lying.
We need explanations and examples of what the numbers mean. Investment, Economics, and politics are all related.

ThingsComeUndone · 1 year ago

We need to get anybody getting a government bailout to reduce their salaries to government levels until they pay the taxpayers back the money they borrow, or they can take their chances with the freemarket...or maybe they really don't need the money.
Is the Fed getting anything in return for keeping interest rates low to help out the banks? Is the Fed collecting interest on the collateral it has accepted from the banks.
Are those interest rates competitive?

Wisconsin Liberal · 1 year ago

Those banks that needed the bailout should be paying oh say, 30%. Like they charge the rest of us when we are a bad risk. If it is good enough for us.......

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

Criminally off topic, but I am reading in The Oregonian on-line that the crowd at Waterfront Park in Portland today to hear Obama could have been around 50,000, and that the line waiting to get near snaked from the park all the way up to Portland State University. I hope this is a harbinger of what Oregon is going to do on Tuesday to offset all the racists in West Virginia.

Indigo · 1 year ago

Either that or we're all just idiots for tolerating and condoning this behavior.
Maybe not all of us, but a loose tolerance for incompetence is a factor in the general situation. The governing class is not disposed to provide for adequate compensation and facilities to the middle and low income communities. It isn't just a sense of entitlement that they have but an archaic sense of social justice gone wrong, like many ill-aspected people, their moral compass always points only to themselves. Our failure to speak respectfully to them and about them is, in their self-referential construct, proof of social injustice. They believe we are arrogant and unjust to them because we hold them accountable.
This is no line in the sand they've drawn, this is a wall they've built, they want class struggle, they need it in some twisted way that I don't understand. This steady stream of nonsese, as Chris calls it, is evidence to the wary that the system isn't just a little bit broken, it's ruined.
It's going to be an interesting summer.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Once you factor in the fact that we're still subsidizing the oil companies, we're paying $17.00 a gallon....plus interest.

Still wondering why Bush wants the Sauds to pump more oil? It's because the oil there is so crude that only China can refine it.

If China had sent men to fly into the WTC's......


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jr · 1 year ago

This is McCain's America, where corporations are always right and the bottom 99 percent are always wrong

Andrew · 1 year ago

One of the best financial sites for the average individual so as to understand the truth about our financial situation can be found at www.financialsense.com.
Jim Puplava is one of the best financial commentators around and if you go to his site you can listen to all or part of his three hour financial updates with people who know what the real numbers are rather than the garbage the government puts out or the spin from CNBS, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal and other spin machines.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

I didn't agree with the bailout idea, but I will say that we need to consider the amount of retirement monies that are invested on Wall Street.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

First comes a devaluation of real estate; then comes inflation; next comes recession; then, depression.

It's simple Econ101. There will be no turning back from the Bush years.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

"If you ignore energy and food prices, the Corporate outlook is good."

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

In a Karmically perfect world these bullish blind bovines would be eaten alive by the hungry hoards.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

I keep reading all of these BULLSHIT articles about how $10 a gallon gas would be good for us. To me it is just "the man" getting us used to it. So that 4, 5, 6 doesn't seem so bad. Gas that expensive in the next couple of years would devastate our civilization. In the long term it might be plausible. If real alternatives are developed. But right now we choose between eating corn, wheat, or soybean and petrol. All $10 a gallon would do is make some very rich people even more obscenely rich. Man will not be satisfied even as a rich man kills the last polar bear and eats the last fish in the sea! And the last peasant is starved by a rich man who enslaves him.

TexasVietVet · 1 year ago

Calm down, folks. I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation why things continue to go up in costs.
As long as you listen to the conservanazis and vote for them, things are going to continue to get worse.

I just want to remind you folks that we have the best damned democracy money can buy.

Someone has to make one helluva profit off our stupidity.

What would Sieg Heil limblagh say about all this whining over costs of basic necessities like Oxycontin ?

Gorgonzola · 1 year ago

I am amazed that it took the oil soaked wretches so long to find out that they could get away with jacking up gas prices, especially under the cover of Cheney and Bush. Gas prices have been high in Europe for a long time. The difference is that the money there goes to provide health care, public transportation and other socially beneficial services. In this country, the money merely lines the pockets of the oil barons.