Excess Hoggage - All Along the Watchtower Edition
By Libby
Song in my head.
Yikes. It's been awhile since I've done of these so there's a lot o' links, starting with the mortage meltdown. It seems dereg burst the bubble.
The surge success is put to the test. I hope they pass it.
The spin on the Iran NIE just made me seasick.
When peace becomes a dirty word, the world is a sadder place.
I'd like to think Robert Kagan had a real change of heart, but I'm not holding my breath.
This horrible accident reminded me of the perils of dereg in safety standards.
Shocking. Abstinence only sex ed doesn't work.
It's really not too late to impeach. The timing in fact could never be better.
Climate deniers skeptical of facts, but not of the skeptics.
It seems we've misplaced some Iraqi trainees who were here by invitation of the military.
Speaking of the military, contrary to popular opinion, the families do not support Bush and they don't mind if retired military says so.
Yet more on mortgage meltdowns.
This is a redux of a post I also did here but the discussion in comments was interesting on whether Bush can be called a tyrant.
Did you know that Iran has stopped accepting dollars?
A really good case to be made for abolishing state secret privilege that comes with a delicious Jack Bauer scenario.
I don't think it's all that bad that Freedom Watch gets to air their ad, if only the left would jump on the new policy and buy some ads of their own.
Inventor of wedge politics, Matthew Dowd, really is a jerk.
And a nice profile of a pioneer for a woman's right to choose.
Also, if you still haven't had enough of my blogviating, there's always the Detroit News. I really have to get a better photo done for that gig.
Song in my head.
Yikes. It's been awhile since I've done of these so there's a lot o' links, starting with the mortage meltdown. It seems dereg burst the bubble.
The surge success is put to the test. I hope they pass it.
The spin on the Iran NIE just made me seasick.
When peace becomes a dirty word, the world is a sadder place.
I'd like to think Robert Kagan had a real change of heart, but I'm not holding my breath.
This horrible accident reminded me of the perils of dereg in safety standards.
Shocking. Abstinence only sex ed doesn't work.
It's really not too late to impeach. The timing in fact could never be better.
Climate deniers skeptical of facts, but not of the skeptics.
It seems we've misplaced some Iraqi trainees who were here by invitation of the military.
Speaking of the military, contrary to popular opinion, the families do not support Bush and they don't mind if retired military says so.
Yet more on mortgage meltdowns.
This is a redux of a post I also did here but the discussion in comments was interesting on whether Bush can be called a tyrant.
Did you know that Iran has stopped accepting dollars?
A really good case to be made for abolishing state secret privilege that comes with a delicious Jack Bauer scenario.
I don't think it's all that bad that Freedom Watch gets to air their ad, if only the left would jump on the new policy and buy some ads of their own.
Inventor of wedge politics, Matthew Dowd, really is a jerk.
And a nice profile of a pioneer for a woman's right to choose.
Also, if you still haven't had enough of my blogviating, there's always the Detroit News. I really have to get a better photo done for that gig.
posted by Libby Spencer at 1:21 PM
12 Comments:
did reagan cause the great depression as well? or the stagflation of the 70's?
the problem has nothing to do with any of that. the problem is the federal reserve prints too much money and creates artifical booms which then go bust.
no amount of regulating can prevent the fed induced boom and bust cycle
Lester, we are simply never going to agree on this point. Dereg is why the economy is in such a mess right now. They let the bankers and investors get 'creative' and they created a disaster.
so stop giving them the means with which to be creative. stop printing money at a rate that encourages ridiculous lending schemes. if the easy credit is out there one way or another it's going to create a boom and subsequent bust. You are never going to have a regulation that can prevent that. It's a monetary not a moral issue.
here
http://www.surrealgourmet.com/html/foodadv/stinky.html
go have a cheese epiphany like this man did
I'm not going to argue this with you Lester. It's pointless. We're both firm in our positions here. We simply have to agree to disagree.
And I'm not going to eat any stinky cheese either. Yuck. My mother loved that stuff. It smelled so bad my dad made her keep it in the garage.
liberals talking about the economy is like republicans talking about the environment. the distance is impossible to bridge so why bother. sifficet to say there are thousands of regulations in place which mainly serve to make things more expensive
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/mortgage-fix-mirage.html
the explanation krugman and other fascists don't want you to read
You know what Lester? Go read Atrios. He has a long series of posts on this that he calls the shitpile and he's not saying anything different than Rockwell is here. And Atrios is a dirty f'ing hippie liberal.
well atrios is missing the point if he feels regulation is the answer.
do you remeber "good times" in the theme song they go
"eeeasy credit rip off!" regulations won't change that, it's caused by lower interst rates that democrats, who are beholden to the "middle class", and republicans, who are beholden to the people who sell to them, both cry out for because it's a short term fix that benfits them and gets them re elected.
so, krugman and I probably agree on one thing: that people who have bad credit should not be offered deals that subvert the whole point of the credit system by giving them what they don't deserve.
but as rockwell demonstrates, people will come up with all sorts of reasons to break that code. in this case, black people had a higher rate of bad credit, therefore it was racist to deny them the same oppurtunities people with good credit had.
regulation essentially gives banks all the tools but tells them not to use them. these people are bankers. BANKERS. this is the fox gaurding the hen house writ large.
we need to take away the tools
You didn't read enough of Atrios Lester. He has slews of posts on the subject and he agrees more with you than with me.
you didn't put a link to it
I don't link to him because he won't link to me. Google Atrios you'll find him at the blog Eschaton.
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