How To (Unlawfully?) Blow A Market Bubble
The post below shows how we need to be asking a lot more questions as a country. Are numbers being fudged to “psych” us out this recession. That’s just a nice way of saying “lie their way out of it” –...
View ArticleHousing Slips Into Depression Territory
Not like anyone needed any reminder or further evidence of just how bad things are…. MSNBC Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
View ArticleOptimism Lost, and by Optimism, I mean Ben Bernanke and the NYT
The New York Times ran a story yesterday under the headline: Gloom Grips Consumers, and it May Be Home Prices. And all I could think to say was… “MAY?” It “MAY” be home prices? Like maybe it’s NOT...
View ArticleStudy | EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS LINKED TO MORTGAGE DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE
EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS LINKED TO MORTGAGE DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers find mortgage default associated with substantially increased risk of...
View ArticleGallup: Obama’s job approval the lowest at this point for any modern...
Omens. In all seriousness, it’s amazing that his numbers are as high as they are. Never in my experience has the country seemed so close to catastrophe in so many ways. Europe could implode in weeks...
View ArticleHO, HO, HOmeless… A Sobering View of the Crisis Affecting Us All
Originally posted in December of 2009… how tragic is that? Read it and you’ll see why. HO, HO, HOmeless! The Real Story Behind the Crisis We Still Don’t Want to Understand. A 46 year-old single...
View ArticleCome on now, tell the truth… the GOP doesn’t want to win the White House in...
Haven’t you figured it out yet… if it wouldn’t be so rude, the GOP convention would be nominating OBAMA in 2012, right? That’s why they’re running Newt, Santorum, Bachman, the black guy with...
View ArticleKrugman: We’re in a depression, you know
Misguided budget-cutting? I’m pretty sure this isn’t helpful for the Obama re-election campaign message. His ads talk about the Great Recession, and how his audacious leadership has led us out of it...
View ArticleKrugman to Obama: You’re gonna lose unless you demand a huge stimulus package
Romney’s ad Exhibit A? Paul Krugman continues his Chicken Little tour in service to his new book, End This Depression Now!, by giving the Obama campaign a little free advice. Did I say “free”?...
View ArticleLee Camp | Is The Path To Happiness Being Kept A Secret?
Somewhere around 40 million people suffer from depression or anxiety each year in the US. Is there a way out of this? Is there a happier way of life? ~ 4closureFraud.org TweetRelated posts: Lee Camp |...
View ArticleGallup: Stay-at-home moms report more anger, sadness, depression than women...
Oh my. Good thing “Julia” was a working mom or else we’d probably have to pay for her antidepressants too. Second look at the blue social model? My gut reaction: Of course stay-at-home moms are...
View ArticleGlass-Steagall Return Would Boost Banks, FDIC’s Hoenig Says
Glass-Steagall Return Would Boost Banks, FDIC’s Hoenig Says A revival of the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that separated commercial and investment banking, is “absolutely necessary” to...
View ArticleVideo: Millions of Americans are suffering through an economic depression,...
Messaging. BuzzFeed’s getting linked for this at Drudge, but they’re not the ones who uploaded it to YouTube. Any guesses who did? Here’s a hint: This clip will be in near-constant rotation on your...
View Article“Some people call it a recession, I think it’s a depression”
“They say he hasn’t done enough, but they don’t help him get anything done!” …Yeah, that’s kind of the point. You and I have that in common, Congressman Waxman. “But look, the president inherited a...
View ArticleGeorge Mantor | The Drought, the Depression and Déjà Vu… Presenting Dust Bowl II
The Drought, the Depression and Déjà Vu… Presenting Dust Bowl II Every time I get a little bit optimistic that we might somehow MacGyver our way out of this, I’m jerked back to reality by… well…...
View ArticleThe US Drought In Context | Drought’s Footprint
(Click to Enlarge) More than half of the country was under moderate to extreme drought in June, the largest area of the contiguous United States affected by such dryness in nearly 60 years. Nearly...
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