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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Bush vs. Obama: Unemployment (September 2011 Jobs Data)
Update: Click here for the most recent jobs statistics. On the first Friday of every month, I update the unemployment numbers so that I can compare the unemployment rate under President George W. Bush with the unemployment rate under President Obama at that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Media, Policy, Politics
Tagged Bush vs. Obama, President Bush, President Obama, Unemployment
90 Comments
Chance of Obama Election Victory Less Than Even
Things don’t look so good for President Obama’s chances in November 2012. According to Intrade.com, a site that makes prediction markets for hundreds of real-world events, investors believe that Obama currently has a 47% chance of being re-elected in 2012. … Continue reading
Posted in Finance and Economics, Investing, Leadership, Politics, Predictions
Tagged Intrade.com, President Obama, Wisdom of crowds
15 Comments
My Occupy Wall Street Demands
“These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.” — Lloyd J. Hart, precocious and Jefferson-esque author of Occupy Wall Street Demands I recently discovered this list of demands from an … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Defense, Education, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, Humor, International Security, Media, Nuclear Power, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Unions
Tagged Alternative Energy, Corn, Cubs, Debt, Default, Ethanol, Fossil fuels, Humor, Immigration, Immortality, Lloyd J. Hart, Lolipops, Mass starvation, Ninjas, Nuclear Energy, Occupy Wall Street, Red Sox, Republicans, Sarcasm, Smoot-Hawley, Starvation, Tariffs, Twinkees, Unemployment, Unicorns, Unions
24 Comments
What’s Your Economic Outlook?
The New York Times published an interesting interactive tool today allowing users to provide their opinions on the American economy. The tool then plots each user’s position amongst a group of one hundred other random people, based on their relative optimism … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Media, Policy, Politics, Technology
Tagged Economic Outlook, Economics, Economy, The New York Times, Unemployment
7 Comments
Bureaucratic Blundering Behind Debit Fee Debacle and Health Premium Hikes
Financial Foolishness Earlier this week, Bank of America announced plans to charge customers $5 each month on accounts that make at least one debit card purchase in a given month. The bank itself cited recent regulations as the primary reason … Continue reading
Reflections of a Rational Republican 