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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The Pain Consensus
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Prosperity for the ruling class, austerity for the rest of you. So declared the two right wings of the Money Party yesterday as they rolled ...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Vampires of the Gilded Age
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Financial gurus advise never spending more than a quarter of your income on housing, so as to have plenty of cash left over for food, heat, ...
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Monday, December 9, 2013
'Tis the Season, Continued
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Well, this didn't take long : The White House will not insist that an emerging budget deal include an extension of the unemployment b...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Eternal Hypocrisy of the Obamian Mind
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Just as the Occupy movement spurred a nervous Barack Obama to deliver his phony populist speech in Kansas in 2011, so too does the papal e...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
And the Band Droned On
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I'd missed the much-ballyhooed Amazon infomercial on 60 Minutes Sunday night, being so enthralled with CNN's Death is Fun and ch...
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Monday, December 2, 2013
'Tis the Season for Noblesse-Obliging
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That most blessed season of heartwarming rags-to-riches Hallmark and Lifetime specials is upon us once again. The same moralizing plots are...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Fifty Shades of Greed
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Since so many retail behemoths are starting their traditional Black Friday sales a day early to get a leg up on the competition, what once ...
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