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This is really cool - new Federal spending, according to the recent stimulus bill, will need to be exposed through an RSS feed. This means, in theory, that as new spending is approved, we can all receive notification in our blogs… or better yet, since these updates will contain structured data...

The rhetoric in the clip below is typical of what goes on in Washington. This is a Democrat, but Republicans do it as well. It's about the show, not about what we need. In this case nobody actually knows what we need, but this crap certainly won't get us there, wherever it is that there ac...

Political Gamesmanship With The Future Of Our Country The rhetoric in the clip below is typical of what goes on in Washington. This is a Democrat, but Republicans do it as well. It's about the show, not about what we need. In this case nobody actually knows what we need, but this crap certainly won'...

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Can you BELIEVE that terrible Nancy Pelosi, suggesting that contraception, i.e. the thwarting of God’s will through the use of hormones and latex derivatives, prevents babies, who generally cost more money than not having babies? It is verily a shameful sin unto the Lord! Sixteen bazillion Dru...

Filed under: Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis One of the benefits, when you are a child of privilege growing up in or near the center of civilization, the capital of the world, is that you receive opportunities to experience the extraordinary. For example, in addition to having two attentive pa...

Filed under: Forecasts, Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis What's one reason for not jumping back in the market at this juncture? Well, one could certainly cite end-of-the-year tax loss selling, which typically weighs on the market. Or the battle for Dow 8,000 between institutional bulls and bear...

I often hate line graphs, especially when they include outliers that skew the axis, making it virtually unreadable. (This may be a result of seeing several papers this semester with Chilean/US$ exchange rates on a graphic from ca. 1970 forward.) But this objection is because the historic outlier smo...