Fart in a Windstorm

One way the government has tried to offset the rising cost of health insurance was to create the Health Savings Account.  It turned out to b...

When Republicans try and articulate a coherent explanation of what they actually do - besides destroy social institutions, tell lies, and ru...

Here's a list from some blog laying out the various techniques used by official spokes-maggots to avoid telling the truth.  I probably d...

.. and we can't find a few billion for the poor and unemployed.   http://voltagecreative.com/articles/scary-bailout-money-info-graph...

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"The bottom line: As a party, the Republicans who will be railing against fiscal irresponsibility and threatening to block a raise in ...

While recently visiting my town's new brewpub, I commented that I did not much like the music being played.  (It may have been coming...

Klein claims that crisis’s are manufactured or at least exploited on purpose - what she calls disaster capitalism (but is more accuratel...

Intro .  In a recent NY Times column, Paul Krugman takes a stab at explaining the chasm between the political left & right.  His take: w...

"Asked about why he had given out $4 billion in bonuses to his Merrill Lynch staff in a quarter in which the company had lost a stagger...

"The first question to ask about the Recovery Program is, “recovery for whom?” The answer is, for the people who design the Recovery Pr...

And has not stopped expanding ever since. "Peanut Corp. of America, the company that produced the contaminated peanut butter now being ...

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"Though seemingly forgotten by most TV talking heads, it was only three years ago, when the Republicans had control of both the White H...

FBI enters Peanut Butter Investigation as US Schools May Have Received Tainted Peanut Products . "Beware of what you eat. You are on yo...

Listed below are some of the top organizations contributing to the 2008 Presidential campaign, based on aggregated individual contributions....

$900 billion dollars, oh my. Where will we ever find the money? Gee, I dunno. Oh look; here's $3 trillion . There's another $2.3 tri...

Paying themselves big bonuses . Very big bonuses . With our money . And they're not afraid to hide it .

So, you think $900 billion is a lot of money? Keep your eye on the ball. While Congress dithers about what to waste $900 billion on -- ...

The guy who saw through Madoff's scam testified before Congress last week. "Harry Markopolos, a derivatives expert who spent nine...

Well, the colonial plunderings of Africa and North America by Europeans were probably larger, but the US Treasury is being robbed right now...

This observation is from the blog of a investment pundit/daytrader (Jesse’s Café Americain) . It is about the suspicious pattern of after-th...

Forget the stimulus; here's where the real action is. Watchdogs: Government Overpaid for Wall Street Assets

On the Republicans born-again fear and loathing of earmarks, pork, and the prerogative of the Congressional majority. Criticisms of the st...