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So, seeing the apoplectic outrage of the right wing about losing the filibuster in certain limited situations (an overdue rap on the knuckles considering how the filibuster has been abused in recent years), I thought I’d repeat something from a post I made two years ago during the first bullshit debt limit crisis. That post […] I freelance, but I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to afford private health insurance since I was in my 20s. I thought my premiums–north of $7,100 per year now, and I’m single with no children [EDIT: And no health issues]–were pretty ridiculous, especially because I was on the absolute cheapest option my plan offered […] So, Economix will be getting a Greek translation. And apparently the Greek market likes color comix, so the publisher will be putting Economix out in color! I was skeptical at first—we used black-and-white by choice, for clarity—but I’ve seen some sample pages, and they look good! Check them out:
[…] If you go to the Heritage foundation website, they’re throwing everything they have against Obamacare. “Everything they have,” if my nonscientific I’ll-read-all-I-can-before-I-vomit sampling is any indication, comes down to three things: Some people are quotably scared of Obamacare. Which is not exactly surprising after a multi-year smear campaign (remember “death panels”?). It’s the thin end […] So, I did some more digging after my post talking about performance-based pay. (The relevant points from that post: The government does not allow companies to deduct pay over $1 million for execs, but “performance-based” pay is excluded, which is why so many execs get “bonuses” no matter how badly they do their jobs). It […] So, this year’s SAT scores are out, and they’re disappointing. Only 43% of students who took the test got scores indicating readiness for college. Really, SAT scores have been flat, or even slowly falling, for a while. Some of that slow decline can be attributed to more people taking the SAT. Maybe all of it […] So Robert Benmosche, the CEO of AIG, is under fire. AIG, remember, took a bunch of very stupid bets on the mortgage market, needed a massive bailout from the government (a bailout that was really a gift to the companies that took the other side of AIG’s bets, like Goldman Sachs), and then paid its […] It’s worth mentioning that when I came across the chart in Monday’s post, I wasn’t just idly sifting through charts; I do have a life. Rather, I wanted to check to make sure my understanding of the history of the national debt was right. My understanding was: When Ronald Reagan took office, the burden of […] So, I was looking for a chart showing the national debt over time and came across this one, from zfacts:
Debt as a percent of GDP is the best measure of the actual burden of the debt; the economy (i.e., GDP) is where any funds to service or pay back the debt have […] The Syria situation is a freaking mess, and I’m not even going to add my two cents as to what we should do. But I do have something to say about *how* we come to a decision: One of the less savory aspects of the rush to war in Iraq was the way that, in […] |
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