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Jon Stewart explains the financial crisis.

Or in other words: Jon Stewart explains the corrupt, dishonest, and yes, total legal ways the big banks and associates stole billions of your dollars.  Its a bit long, but the main segment starts at 7.  The Daily Show. (Embed … Continue reading

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After the Recesion Comes the Inflation?

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in these dismal economic days, the government’s policies implemented in an attempt to avoid a total economic collapse after-effects will be felt for years to come. The currency-in-circulation component of the … Continue reading

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Happy Tax Day! and Tax Freeedom Day?

Well this is certainly everyone’s favorite time of year, its Tax Day!  Now, why is tax filing day April 15th?  Perhaps it is because this is about the time of the year that Americans have made enough money to pay … Continue reading

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The Economy

Check out the new update on unemployment on my The Economy page (constant link in the sidebar).

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The Big Pump

The Federal Reserve has decided to create another trillion dollars.  So what happens when that much money is created out of thin air?  Well they may see it as necessary in the short term but in the long term this … Continue reading

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Dr. Doom Strikes Again!

Over at Bloomberg.com Noriel Roubini, kindly nicknamed Dr. Doom for his tendancy to make pessimistic (but often accurate) economic forecasts, predicts that it is only going to get worse before it gets better: Unfortunately, the worst is ahead of us. … Continue reading

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The Real Jobless Numbers

As our economy continues its nose dive into a depression, and is only being saved by the fact that the rest of the world is worse off then we are, we got another piece of bad news last week, new … Continue reading

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The Auto Failout

This about sums it up:

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Explaining the Credit Crisis

Here is an explanation of the credit crisis that we can all understand (sort of).  Its a cartoon and a bit long, but its worth it: Link

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