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He declares victory and will bring the troops home by 2011.
Archive for February, 2009
February 28th, 2009
Category: Financial crises
What’s it like to go from being a manager to being a janitor?
February 28th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Can the Democrats hang him around the neck of the GOP? Doesn’t hurt to try. And of course any time Michael Steele or John Boehner or Mitch McConnell wants to distance himself from the guy who’s rooting for the country to crash and burn because he doesn’t like the current pilot, they’re welcome to do [...]
February 27th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Reagan lied all the time, and he was perfect. Therefore, Jindal did nothing wrong. QED. Clap louder!
February 27th, 2009
We need to invest in carbon sequestration not for our sake — but for India and China.
February 27th, 2009
Category: Campaign 2012
That story about Katrina and the sheriff and the boats? Not perzackly true.
February 27th, 2009
Category: Campaign 2012
Huck to CPAC: “The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may be dead, but a Union of American Socialist Republics is being born … Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff.”
February 26th, 2009
Category: Financial crises, Language and usage
In support of using the terminology of guardianship for temporary bank nationalization.
February 25th, 2009
Category: Financial crises
My friend the astoundingly-smart investment manager is less impressed by the Woodward-Hall-Bulow plan than I was. He’s not against it, but he doubts it has much advantage over a straight nationalization that would wipe out the stockholders and make the bondholders and other non-deposit creditors take a haircut to be determined. The text below crunches [...]