Entries Tagged as 'bail-outs'

Friday, July 9th, 2010

The Punditiocy of Krugman, et Al

I know my last blog post was definitively titled “The End of Capitalism… for Beginners,” and, in a summary effort, it included ideas I’ve been blogging about for years, but, alas, I find I am still not done blogging on the matter.  Before I get back to blogging about kombucha, education and poison ivy, I [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Socialize the Loss, Privatize the Profit, Rah, Rah, Siss-Boom, Bah!

A guy I know–we’ll call him Fred–told me yesterday evening the economy seems to be turning. Of course, I thought he was considering himself informed by Monday’s stock market rise, but, no, for Fred it all seemed to come down to Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke’s recent claim that things would improve by the end of [...]