wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]
Have you ever heard that expression? “If you don’t like the weather in this town, just wait awhile. It will change.”
It gets said everywhere I’ve lived. Well, in this town, it’s true. I walked to work, nice morning. The rain finally stopped. In the late afternoon, I sat in a park for a late lunch. […]
this is rich. Jack Welch, the man who promoted the idea that shareholder profits should come first and foremost, and hence the constant emphasis on profit and increasing share values, has decided that he didn’t really mean it. of course, what he says is that he never meant it that way to begin with. nonetheless…
Financial […]
just one teensy weensy thought on the revolutionary gardening crapliotta.
did any of those workers picking green beans and apples ask you to stop buying the apples and beans they picked. in other words, do *they* think that supporting them in their struggles would be best accomplished by boycotting their products.
hmmm?
srsly. using concern about migrant workers […]
Microcredit: a political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad
It’s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win.
What do they say about things that […]
mindlessly listening to henwood’s archived radio programs, i’ve just come across the excellent work of a woman who works with an org that has pulled about the numbers to reveal how the toxic loans were concentrated in poor neighborhoods. NEDAP is the org http://www.nedap.org/
good stuff: http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20081011-Sat1000.mp3
because i have been irritated with otherwise intelligent, well read, keep-up-with-the-news, read -the-Economist-type people lately, i have been surfing around the archives looking for when our lbo discussions of the coming real estate bubble burst started happening.
they can be traced back to the first signs of a bubble in hot real estate markets in california […]
Many are concerned with the fiscal implications of this bill, so let me turn to that question. Despite the common use of language,
the capital cost of this bill does not involve “taxpayer dollars.”
It authorizes a financial transaction, exchanging good debt (U.S. Treasury bills and bonds) for bad debt (the “troubled assets”). Many of those […]
dog almighty, i’ve had one shitty day. a shitty week. and it’s only tuesday. a woman i work with once said something that had me practically pissing myself in a meeting. as she listened to some news that annoyed, she started to write a note to herself, saying out loud, “Repeat again: It is illegal […]
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