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Posted in Government Thuggery on Dec 19th, 2009
Barack O’Bush on the Christmas present we are all getting from the wonderful do-gooders in DC: The Congressional Budget Office said the Senate bill would extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans who lack it. It also imposes new regulations to curb abuses of the insurance industry, and the president noted one last-minute addition […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Personal Finance on Dec 19th, 2009
Do NOT take financial advice from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. Are there economics editors over there? The brief article is talking about how zero inflation is “bad for you.” Ignore the larger economic question about how inflation is bad for you, this article is arguing that from a pure dollars and sense perspective, inflation makes […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Dec 19th, 2009
I am forced to make accommodations for special needs students from time to time, and am happy to do so when the situation calls for it. For example, I have students that have physical difficulty writing, so I allow them to take their exams on a word processor. But here is the latest thing I […]
