November 24, 2008 - Like an asthmatic, flat-footed brainiac on the dreaded gym class mile run (not to divulge too much about my adolescent self), we as a nation are now grimly limping toward the end of the year, teeth gritted, bracing ourselves for the next spasm and wondering if there's anything...
November 24, 2008 - NPNR's David Overbearing reports on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee...
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November 21, 2008 - As recently as 2006, identity theft was still considered one of the most lucrative fields of non-violent crime for computer literate Americans to get into. But with so many Americans losing their homes and drowning in debt, stealing the right identity has become much trickier. A single social secu...
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November 21, 2008 - Mortgage rapists Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have announced that they are postponing home foreclosures until after the holidays. No one has to worry about being escorted from their homes by marshals until...
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November 21, 2008 - Washington, D.C. -- The CEOs of several investment banking, insurance and financial services giants appeared before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday to testify about the state of their companies' financial health. What the committee members heard were tales of despera...
November 19, 2008 - Should we bail out the auto industry? Congress is deciding who gets our money, and they brought the leaders of the Big Three, plus an AAUW head to testify. Maybe you missed it. We didn't...
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November 12, 2008 - The problem with bailouts, aside from the fact they promote socialism, take away the incentive to succeed, allow crappy businesses to continue, stifle innovation, prevent morons from making needed career changes, and generally screw up the economy, is that they don't work.
I am trying to think of a...
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October 29, 2008 - I've always been a little smitten with Alan Greenspan. I am drawn to the former Federal Reserve Chairman in the same way that I am drawn--god help me--to Larry King and Wolf Blizter. If you grew up believing in Santa Claus, it's hard not to see...
October 22, 2008 - I'm a pretty serious person, so I've been following the stock market for a total of about 22 days now. I've learned a fair amount about global finance in that time, which I present to you now, because you don't know any of it.
The stock...
October 21, 2008 - "Fast Company" is a "business lifestyle" (or "douchebag interest") magazine whose website currently boasts a list of the Top 8 Jobs of 2008. Guess what's not on there? Blogging for comedy websites. Don't make the same mistake we did.
Check out Fastcompany.co...
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October 14, 2008 - So with the government buying up stakes in all the major banks, the free market economy is pretty much dead, right? Oh well, it had a nice long life before that commie Bush White House finally had their way and forc...
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