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Politics

Apocalypse now – Wait, don’t you mean out of control social spending finally caught up to you?

February 17, 2009 by Ryan Barr

Paul Krugman writes: Everyone should be paying attention to the political/fiscal catastrophe now unfolding in California. Years of neglect, followed by economic disaster — and with all reasonable responses blocked by a fanatical, irrational minority. This could be America next. I completely agree that America could be next, but give me a break.  The “fanatical, [...]

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Just wondering…

February 3, 2009 by Ryan Barr

Does anyone else find it extremely hypocritical of our new tax and spend leadership to not pay their own taxes? If the system is so complex that Senators and other high ranking officials cannot figure it out, why don’t we just hit the reset button and go to the fair tax? Edit: fixed my horrid [...]

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Today’s Regulation…

December 21, 2008 by Ryan Barr

A nice little cartoon I picked up from Barry Rithotlz via the Washington Post:

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Let the money grab continue!

December 19, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Mr. Paulson only has roughly 30 days left in office and somehow he is convinced that he needs to take down the second tranche of TARP funds… From the WSJ (emphasis mine): In the very short-term, the allocated but not yet disbursed TARP balances, in conjunction with the powers of the Federal Reserve and the [...]

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How do I become a bank?

December 18, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Okay, if anyone out there knows how I can personally become a bank I’d like the information.  It appears that the White House will likely announce the auto bailout tomorrow ( Bloomberg).  Here is the catch, they will likely not bailout the auto makers, they will bail out the credit arms.  Given that each of [...]

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