Discuss fiscal and economic policy. Budget, taxes, spending, etc. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 19 May 2013 06:05:23 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:05:23 Because the Tea Party brings instant connections to the Mad Hatter and the world of Lewis Carroll, we are going through the Looking Glass in hopes of finding our way back to the world we were born into:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Dinah_and_kittens.JPG

[div class="excerp... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635271 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:20
from Citizens for Tax Justice:



May 16, 2013 04:02 PM |


First it was Mitt Romney, and now two more aspiring public servants are in the spotlight for questionable tax maneuvers – Penny Pritzker, President Obama’s Commerce Secretary Nominee, and Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate,... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635268 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:18 This article discusses the fact that European finance ministers are tryig to figure out
which depositors shall remain immune from future bank bail ins.

excerpts from the article:
[div class="excerpt"]Ministers debated an existing draft law for the first time since what appeared to be an ad hoc ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635266 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:09:22 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Friday, 17 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jone... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635244 Thu, 16 May 2013 18:54:26 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday, 16 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635212 Wed, 15 May 2013 19:19:30 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Wednesday, 15 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635191 Tue, 14 May 2013 19:09:27 http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17960-the-biggest-takers-and-societal-parasites-are-the-rich-not-the-working-class-and-poor

[b]This is a great article to use for reference.. when commenting on sites for the lumpenproletariate[/b].

PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

Ayn R... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635160 Mon, 13 May 2013 20:10:50 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday, 14 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jon... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635158 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:57:45 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

[div class="excerpt"][b][link:http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hedge-fund-boss-12-years-insider-case-19170961|Hedge Fund Boss Gets 6 1/2 Years in Insider Case][/b]

NEW YORK May 13, 2013 (AP)

The co-founder of a Connecticut hedge fund who authorities said ma... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635154 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:37:01
from New Economic Perspectives:



[b]Brown-Vitter Will Not and Cannot Work but it is Criminogenic[/b]
By William K. Black


Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) have introduced a bill entitled “Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013.” It is a miracle of m... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635152 Mon, 13 May 2013 16:14:21 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday, 13 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jon... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635116 Sun, 12 May 2013 20:01:05 http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/rand-paul-fatca-repeal-offshore-tax-evasion

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Rand Paul Wants to Loosen Laws on Offshore Tax Evasion
—By Erika Eichelberger
| Thu May. 9, 2013 7:45 AM PDT

Late Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introdu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635064 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:43:21 http://www.icij.org/offshore/tax-authorities-move-leaked-offshore-documents

http://cloudfront-4.icij.org/sites/icij/files/styles/project_marquee/public/secrecyforsale_icij_header.jpg

[i]British tax authorities are working with U.S. and Australian tax offices to identify individuals possibly co... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635063 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:22:37 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Areyoumymother.gif

This weekend we are going to tell tales of mothers: yours, mine, ours, theirs, it doesn't matter. We can critique mothers in film and fiction, history and art, human or otherwise.

What makes one a mother? Does one have to be fema... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635052 Fri, 10 May 2013 17:31:44
[b]Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities: Remaking Finance, Part III[/b]

Wednesday, 08 May 2013 00:00
[i]By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, [b]Truthout[/b] | News Analysis[/i]

[div class="excerpt"]Here are links to [link:www.truth-out.org/news/item/15... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635029 Fri, 10 May 2013 08:22:49 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Friday, 10 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jones 1... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111635011 Thu, 09 May 2013 17:04:19
from Dollars & Sense:


[b]Unemployment Is Down, So What’s the Problem?[/b]
By Alejandro Reuss | May/June 2013


The “headline” unemployment rate, or U-3 by its Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) designation, has declined from a peak of 10.0% in late 2009 to 7.5% now. The unemployment rate—th... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634998 Thu, 09 May 2013 10:04:08 http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/08/a-final-embrace-the-most-haunting-photograph-from-bangladesh/#1

http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/03_img_02891.jpg

[i]April 25, 2013. Two victims amid the rubble of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.[/i]

A... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634992 Thu, 09 May 2013 09:23:02 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/08/a-recovery-for-the-rich/

In the U.S., a recovery for the rich
by Erica Alini on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:00pm

Officially, the Great Recession in the United States ended in June 2009. For the following 2½ years, though, the recovery has only blessed the rich... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634984 Thu, 09 May 2013 08:30:18 http://watchingamerica.com/News/205899/impunity-forever-us-supreme-court-shields-multinationals-from-liability-for-human-rights-violations/

Impunity Forever: US Supreme Court Shields Multinationals from Liability for Human Rights Violations
Argenpress, Argentina
By Gaby Weber
Translated By Ali... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634981 Thu, 09 May 2013 08:13:39 http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0508/Dow-hits-15000-but-percentage-of-Americans-owning-stocks-hits-a-low.-Why

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[i]Barely half of Americans, 52 percent, now say they own stock outright or as part of a mut... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634975 Thu, 09 May 2013 06:34:20 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/08/seven-workers-die-of-suffocation-in-bangladesh-garment-factory-fire/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/A-Bangladeshi-firefighter-carries-an-injured-garment-worker-after-an-eight-storey-building-collapsed-in-Savar-on-the-outskirts-of-Dhaka.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634974 Thu, 09 May 2013 06:20:52 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday, 9 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jone... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634972 Wed, 08 May 2013 21:20:22
[b]There Are No More Corporate Criminals[/b]

Posted on May 7, 2013
By Thomas Hedges


[i]This report first appeared on [b]Policy Shop[/b].[/i]


Panelists at the annual Corporate Crime Reporter Conference in Washington, D.C. Friday said they were concerned that the Justice Department is ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634965 Wed, 08 May 2013 09:52:57 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Wednesday, 8 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jon... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634938 Tue, 07 May 2013 18:56:23 I belong to another forum where a member posted the following:


This one just came in. Please explain topic 18. to me. I wanna know what that is.


1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 Wal-Mart profit every minute!

3.. Wal-M... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634929 Tue, 07 May 2013 15:09:57 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday, 7 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jones 1... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634894 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:15:58 it was only because Ford got a loan (hmm ... they had to borrow money? Someone keeps saying "if you can't afford it, don't buy it") right before the banks dried up?... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634893 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:08:20
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/430-foreclosure/17269-mortgages-in-the-era-of-mass-terror

As the New York Times reported, "The banks that created risky amalgams of mortgages and loans during the boom - the kind that went so wrong during the bust - are busily reviving the same types of i... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634858 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:19:31
http://www.nationofchange.org/ready-rationing-why-we-should-put-brakes-consumption-if-we-want-survive-1367679490

Now the green future, if there is one, will parallel the wartime ‘40s in the sense that a large part of the economy will have to be diverted for a period of years, or in this case, d... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634857 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:17:49
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/krugman-not-enough-inflation.html?hp&_r=0

So all those inflation fears were wrong, and those who fanned those fears proved, in case you were wondering, that their economic doctrine is completely wrong — not that any of them will ever admit such a thing.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634856 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:16:32 [font size=3][b]STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday, 6 May 2013[font color=black][/b][/font]

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Dow Jones ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634838 Sun, 05 May 2013 19:19:46 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f5763610-b2bb-11e2-8540-00144feabdc0.html

“We see a pronounced difference between how people are shopping today and before the recession,” the executive explained. “Consumers are living pay check by pay check, and they tend to spend accordingly. Then you have 50 mil... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634817 Sat, 04 May 2013 22:39:18
http://www.nationofchange.org/university-massachusetts-econ-department-how-we-know-reinhart-and-rogoff-were-wrong-1366983503

Economists concerned about their standing in their mainstream of the profession likely would have gone this route. HAP wanted to ensure that their paper would provoke a s... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634810 Sat, 04 May 2013 18:01:40 Imagine Vitter the Shitter doing something useful. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/17241-too-big-to-fail-takes-another-body-blow

Minds are changing on Too Big to Fail. A month ago, it was just something in the air. Now, it looks like we... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634809 Sat, 04 May 2013 17:55:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3pFKicj9MY


[b]Published on May 4, 2013[/b]

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the Great Leap Forward in central banks' central planning which has driven the Housewives of China to buy 300 tons of gold, an act of disloy... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634802 Sat, 04 May 2013 10:16:49
([b]Toronto Star[/b]) Apple Inc. appears to be throwing in the towel as one of history’s greatest growth companies.

In deciding to return $100 billion (U.S.) in surplus cash to shareholders, Apple is giving in to pressure from a Wall Street that is fretting over Apple’s slowing pace of sales g... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634795 Sat, 04 May 2013 08:26:39 http://www.hulu.com/watch/482400?utm_content=4003003&PID=4003003&utm_source=cjlink&utm_campaign=cj-affiliate&AID=10947797&cmp=30&SHID=11k9hw083i4nf&partner=cj&utm_term=10947797

Funny to find out hat the Noted Economics Duo never even had their theory peer-reviewed!



And as Krugman noted la... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634774 Fri, 03 May 2013 20:30:50 Saturday is Derby day, so that will be our theme, but not just races. Any Horse, or anything about any horse. I'm opening the thread this week because Demeter is taking some well deserved R&R. Hope she enjoys herself and gets some relaxation.

And they're off!!!
Up for that lead is The Derby.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634771 Fri, 03 May 2013 19:39:14 I usually post this in LBN, but because of a fire in the building, no one was being allowed in when I arrived at work this morning. Someone else gets the fame, and I get to take the day off. Still, I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone, so here's the BLS report anyway:

[link:http://www.bls.gov/new... http://www.democraticunderground.com/111634764 Fri, 03 May 2013 11:49:50