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Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
"These guys are just dicks."
politics  finance 
10 weeks ago by epersonae
Information Diet | A Primer: How Money Influences Congress
Understanding the process.
politics  finance 
december 2011 by epersonae
As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
“We make friends with people we barely know!” And yet, that info could be used for virtual redlining? WTF?
socialmedia  finance  creditunion  facebook 
december 2011 by epersonae
GeekMom » Blog Archive » Does It Feel Like Lego Bricks Just Keep Getting More Expensive?
Inflation-adjusted price per brick...mid70s & mid80s were peak price for Lego.
lego  history  finance 
december 2011 by epersonae
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Bloomberg
"I can’t buy enough of anything to make up for the fact that millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans can’t buy any new clothes or enjoy any meals out."
politics  finance 
december 2011 by epersonae
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Occupation
"I live next door to a house owned by Bank of America, and they are the worst neighbors I’ve ever had"
politics  finance  occupy 
november 2011 by epersonae
The New Progressive Movement - NYTimes.com
"To put it simply: tax the rich, end the wars and restore honest and effective government for all." I hope he's right.
politics  finance  occupy 
november 2011 by epersonae
The Income Disparity of Women in the Creative Class - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
"Even when we control for hours worked and education in a regression analysis, creative class men out-earn creative class women by a sizable $23,700, or 49.2 percent."
gender  business  society  finance  webdev 
november 2011 by epersonae
Don’t EVEN Get Me Started, Mythical Bootstraps College Student | Persephone Magazine
"This stupid little Facebook photo is not only ill-informed, it’s harmful. Nothing on it has anything to do with reality."
academia  politics  finance 
october 2011 by epersonae
Daily Kos: Open Letter to that 53% Guy
"Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?"
politics  finance 
october 2011 by epersonae
Mayor McGinn » Update on Occupy Seattle
brilliant, really.
politics  finance 
october 2011 by epersonae
Occupy Wall Street: FAQ | The Nation
politics  finance 
october 2011 by epersonae
Sutor, ne ultra crepidam « self-evident
"While (CA) state policymakers have spent considerable time debating spending issues, I think it would be difficult to argue that financial trouble catches officials off guard." response to recent VF article by Michael Lewis.
politics  finance 
october 2011 by epersonae
Regulatory uncertainty: A phony explanation for our jobs problem | Economic Policy Institute
"what the heavily politicized trade associations in Washington are saying does not correspond to the real challenges facing both large and small businesses, even as they themselves perceive them."
finance  politics  academia 
october 2011 by epersonae
New Economic Perspectives: Latest in Deficit Terrorism: Postal Service Default
"I reject the premise the post office faces a budget crisis on its face. I reject the whole frame that it entails."
politics  finance 
september 2011 by epersonae
A Terrifying Study and Chart | Leeds on Finance
"If this study turns out to be correct, by 2030 investors will have had close to 30 years of no real returns." the effect of demographics (age) on stock prices.
society  finance 
august 2011 by epersonae
Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) | Mother Jones
troubling.
society  politics  finance 
august 2011 by epersonae
The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression | Common Dreams
"Never mind that cutting Social Security to balance the budget is like attacking the mailman because your car doesn’t work." a little bit of connecting the dots. sobering.
history  politics  finance 
august 2011 by epersonae
Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
"The picture is clear; entry into the top 0.5% and, particularly, the top 0.1% is usually the result of some association with the financial industry and its creations."
finance  politics 
july 2011 by epersonae
Why Aren’t There More Union Members in America? A Reply to Will Wilkinson « Corey Robin
"union-busting has a lot to do with the past, present, and future of the labor movement in America"
finance  politics  work 
july 2011 by epersonae
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - 20,000 Leagues Under the State
"public policies designed in a manner that channels resources to citizens indirectly, through subsidies for private activities, rather than directly through payments or services from government" - on tax expenditures (mortgage deduction, EITC, 529 accounts, etc)
politics  finance 
june 2011 by epersonae
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Business | Vanity Fair
totally crazy. from the author of The Big Short.
finance  politics 
june 2011 by epersonae
Earth Advantage: Green homes fetch higher prices | Sustainable Business Oregon
finance  eco  home 
june 2011 by epersonae
Secrets of the Tax-Prep Business | Mother Jones
"Essentially, they're charging people triple-digit interest rates to borrow their own money" - "refund anticipation loans" - ugh.
finance  politics 
april 2011 by epersonae
The 1 Percent Dissolution | The Magazine | Vanity Fair
politics  finance  war 
march 2011 by epersonae
The clear correlation between crisis and corruption at Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's Icelog
"the European countries worst hit by the crisis are corrupt countries with weak state institutions" I think that goes for the US, too. Reminds me of 13 Bankers & Return of Depression Economics: both directly compare our situation with "emerging market" issues of corruption.
finance  politics 
march 2011 by epersonae
Understanding Social Security in One Easy Lesson | Mother Jones
"But one way or another, at some level between 75% and 100% of what we've promised, Social Security benefits will always be there." tired of hearing sky-is-falling BS about Social Security.
politics  finance 
february 2011 by epersonae
The Paradox of Corporate Taxes in America - NYTimes.com
"The official rate is higher than in almost any other country, which forces companies to devote enormous time and effort to finding loopholes. Yet the government raises less money in corporate taxes than it once did, because of all the loopholes that have been added in recent decades."
finance  politics 
february 2011 by epersonae
Writing on the high seas at Tobias Buckell Online
"economics can be tricksy, and I don’t think that gut response is necessarily the right one" - on book piracy
writing  library  finance  security 
january 2011 by epersonae
Can PFM Help Align Cost With Value? - Marketing Tea Party
YES.
Creditunion  finance  misctech 
january 2011 by epersonae
NAFCU Compliance Blog: More on Elizabeth Warren; Let Me Save You Some Money (Really)
Love her.
Finance 
january 2011 by epersonae
Hyper-libertarian Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel's appalling plan to pay students to quit college. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
Damn.
Politics  finance  academia 
december 2010 by epersonae
An Unfortunate Decision by Peter Orszag - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
"these stories pile up in the background to create a broad American sense that politics is rigged, and opportunity too"
politics  finance 
december 2010 by epersonae
Innumeracy on the Street | Mother Jones
"Many firms doubled base salaries and eliminated bonuses for midtier employees after the crash, and apparently this is causing panic among the troops" ::facepalm::
finance 
december 2010 by epersonae
Why the Obama tax deal with Republicans is insane | Corrente
Interesting one-two punch. First, evidence is in that higher taxes create more growth; second, a theory as to why that is so: low taxes encourage profit-taking & financial speculation, high taxes encourage investment in business assets.
politics  finance  history 
december 2010 by epersonae
Invaders from Mars - Charlie's Diary
corporations as alien invaders. yep.
society  finance  politics  philosophizing 
december 2010 by epersonae
White, male startup companies get funding for being white and male. | Geek Feminism Blog
"In other industries—and if uttered by someone without a university education—people would call it “sexism”, “racism”, and “ageism”, but not in the technology venture-capital industry" -- also, amused by the "Remington Steele" suggestion in the comments.
gender  finance  misctech 
november 2010 by epersonae
Stoller: A Debtcropper Society « naked capitalism
"The phrase ‘the man’, as in ‘fight the man’, referred originally to creditors."
finance  politics  history 
november 2010 by epersonae
Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com
"So we face a choice. Is our economic priority the jobless, or is it zillionaires?"
politics  finance 
november 2010 by epersonae
E.J. Dionne Jr. - Voters are in the dark on campaign spending
"Secret money is antithetical to the transparency that democracy requires."
politics  finance 
october 2010 by epersonae
Tracking The Companies That Track You Online : NPR
"those shoes followed me around for a month" :\
privacy  finance  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
The Credit Union Warrior: Put Us Out of Business
"if your credit union's success is tied to your members' failure, you may want to rethink your business model."
creditunion  finance 
october 2010 by epersonae
Economist's View: Does a Higher Minimum Wage Reduce Jobs?
"both the short and long term effects of the increased wage on unemployment were negligible"
finance  politics 
october 2010 by epersonae
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Oct. 4, 2010
I really miss Wesabe.
creditunion  finance  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
TARP Is Gone – But May Soon Be Back « The Baseline Scenario
"Supporting banks by injecting capital is best practice for preventing financial and economic collapse around the world." BUT it wasn't implemented with best practices during TARP.
finance  politics 
september 2010 by epersonae
rc3.org - Victims of economic restructuring are people too
"It wasn’t strategic thinking that led me to choose software development, it was the realization that I didn’t really like interviewing people."
society  finance  politics  misctech  webdev 
september 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Contributor - How to End the Great Recession - NYTimes.com
"Now we’re left to deal with the underlying problem that we’ve avoided for decades. Even if nearly everyone was employed, the vast middle class still wouldn’t have enough money to buy what the economy is capable of producing." and some really novel ideas for how to get out of this situation.
politics  history  finance 
september 2010 by epersonae
Social Security: The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall - latimes.com
so...about the time I retire, Social Security might need to raise or eliminate the payroll tax ceiling? that's it?! stop freaking out, people.
politics  finance  history 
august 2010 by epersonae
Dejobbing society
side note: I haven't thought about Beguines in ages. (I took medieval women's lit in college. Yes, really. Fascinating stuff, as it happens.)
history  finance  society  gender 
august 2010 by epersonae
FT.com / Reportage - The crisis of middle-class America
"most Americans have been treading water for more than a generation" - with two examples.
politics  finance 
august 2010 by epersonae
More of the Rich Run as Populist Outsiders - NYTimes.com
"a growing crowd of über-rich candidates, comfortable in boardrooms and country clubs, spending a fortune to remake themselves into populist insurgents"
politics  finance 
july 2010 by epersonae
slacktivist: Rendering unto Krugman
"So let me oversimplify things a bit more." indeed. getting back to the moral underpinnings of society. so to speak.
society  politics  finance  history 
june 2010 by epersonae
Economics: Economists behaving foolishly | The Economist
"the essay errs, as many similar criticisms err, in missing the breadth and richness of the economics blogosphere"
blogosphere  finance  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Columnist - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com
"governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending"
politics  finance  history 
june 2010 by epersonae
My Father and Alan Greenspan | TPMCafe
"When I was a small boy at the start of the 1950s, my father gave me my first economics lesson. 'Bobby,' he said with obvious concern, 'you and your children and your children's children will be repaying the national debt created by Franklin D. Roosevelt.'" Wrong!
finance  politics  history 
june 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Columnist - The Rise of the Richies - NYTimes.com
"We have been entertaining ourselves with theories about how this election year is going to be all about voter anger. [etc] But, really, it’s going to be about money. Gobs of cash falling on campaigns like tar balls on a beach." ::sigh::
politics  finance 
june 2010 by epersonae
Myths and Facts About An Income Tax in Washington State :: Olympia Newswire
finance  politics  local 
june 2010 by epersonae
You Think You’re Paying Too Much In Taxes? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
taxes in 2009 lowest rate since 1950. so STFU.
politics  finance 
june 2010 by epersonae
The interchange fee panel | Analysis & Opinion |
(this is a good place to note that my blog reflects my personal opinions and not those of my employer.) "I asked him why CUNA was opposed to the Durbin amendment [...] even though it explicitly excludes 99% of credit unions; he said that [...] interchange fees are likely to come down [...] and credit unions make lots of money from interchange fees." hrmph.
creditunion  finance  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Thomas Kinkade firm seeks bankruptcy protection - Los Angeles Times
"Kinkade's word is as worthless as his artwork." hahahaha. also: "Hazlewood and Spinello sued [...] alleging that he'd used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest"
funny  arts  weird  finance  religion 
june 2010 by epersonae
A failure of economic and environmental regulation : The New Yorker
"'the economy of esteem' is crucial to making public service work" in this case talking about regulation and regulators, but I think true of any sort of public employees.
society  politics  finance 
june 2010 by epersonae
Washington Credit Union League | FOCUS | Retailers Lobbying to Avoid Paying Fair Share of Plastic Card Payment System
for comparison, here's a piece from the state CU league.
finance  creditunion  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Ezra Klein - Large banking interests create a Web page against interchange finreg
"Make sure you know the facts of this very market-friendly way of trying to regulate this duopoly before you make a judgment on whether or not to support it." trying to understand this issue.
finance  creditunion 
june 2010 by epersonae
slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 1
on usury in the modern world.
finance  religion  history 
june 2010 by epersonae
Left out in the cold: How tech innovation favors the rich - Computerworld
"It is no surprise then that much of the gadgetry and Web services leaping from the minds of talented young innovators are geared toward young, well-educated, affluent white kids -- people just like them"
society  gender  politics  finance  misctech  webdev 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Atlantic :: Business :: The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama
richest: Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson, and Washington -- by far the most wealthy president! (Not counting Kennedy, family fortune over $1 billion, but none of it his personal wealth.)
history  politics  finance 
may 2010 by epersonae
It's Time to Tax the Wall Street Casino - Roger Martin - Harvard Business Review
I'm wondering if there's any connection with the rise in ACTUAL casinos?
finance  history  politics 
may 2010 by epersonae
Financial crisis: Big banks' lies on what caused meltdown - MSN Money
"there was too much lending and too much leverage" - whenever you see the passive voice, look out!
finance  politics 
april 2010 by epersonae
Wall Street Meets Its Match | The American Prospect
"If Congress ends up with effective financial regulation, Sen. Maria Cantwell will deserve a lot of the credit." from last winter.
politics  local  finance 
april 2010 by epersonae
Jason Smith - On the banking crisis
"I do think that our response to current events could stand to be stepped up a bit."
finance  politics  history 
april 2010 by epersonae
Inside Job | This American Life
"the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us" - how is it that TAL keeps kicking out such amazing stuff on finance?!
history  finance 
april 2010 by epersonae
Routine document, extraordinary outcome -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
"The highly detailed, five-page SAR [...] confirms how Spitzer's peculiar request three years ago triggered the federal investigation"
politics  finance  creditunion 
april 2010 by epersonae
Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine? - Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman
"But any policymaker who is really serious about creating new jobs in America would be unwise to continue to ignore our new monopolies."
finance  politics 
april 2010 by epersonae
Wealth And Inequality In America
"The poor are getting poorer, wages are falling behind inflation, and social mobility is at an all-time low." told in charts.
history  society  politics  finance 
april 2010 by epersonae
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say - NYTimes.com
academia  society  finance 
april 2010 by epersonae
The Financial Brand » Freeze! The cold hard facts on bank robberies in 2009
with charts!
creditunion  finance  society 
march 2010 by epersonae
MShift Sues Digital Insight Over Mobile Technology Patent
mobileweb  finance  creditunion 
march 2010 by epersonae
Student loan reform's lessons for health care reform. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Student loan lender trainwreck almost derailed our mortgage app. I ::heart:: Direct Loan. (again: personal opinion.)
academia  finance  politics  creditunion 
march 2010 by epersonae
House backs Obama's bid to revamp student loans | Reuters
"Nonpartisan congressional budget analysts project that the measure would save about $61 billion over 10 years." Hell YES. (reminder that this is a personal opinion & not opinion of my employer.)
academia  finance  politics  creditunion 
march 2010 by epersonae
Banks Pressure Customers on Overdraft Fees - NYTimes.com
"Right now I’m favoring an aggressive opt-in strategy to protect as much revenue as possible.”
creditunion  finance  politics 
march 2010 by epersonae
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