Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Humor on September 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
John pointed out an article in the New York Times magazine that looks in-depth at Obama’s economic plan and why it’s so difficult to classify as liberal or conservative. The whole article is a great read, but this one passage caught my attention:
The second criticism is that Obama’s tax increases would send an already-weak economy [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Politics on August 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
via ReShun:
Posted by Chris in Economics, Government, Politics on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
You know the myth: “Housing prices in San Diego are so high because everyone wants to live here.” It’s depressing if you want to buy a home, but it turns out it just isn’t true. We’ve been losing more people than we’ve gained over the last four years, and it started just about the time [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics on March 22nd, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Nick sent along this depressing article entitled “Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling.” In other words:
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Iraq, World on February 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve said this kind of thing before, but John Allen Paulos at ABC News has an interesting spin on how the $1,000,000,000,000 we’ve spent on Iraq to date could have been put to better use. For example:
The cost of the war can also be expressed as approximately 28 HS’s, where HS, the annual [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Government, Iraq on February 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
