Archive for Politics

U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP

Jun 07, 2010 No Comments

President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”

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Statistical manipulation yields a net increase of 20,000 new jobs.

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Today, President Obama heralded the creation of 431,000 new jobs. He neglected to mention that 411,000 of those jobs add no value to the economy, build no wealth, and represent statistics manipulation to create the tele-prompted headline. The stock market was able to disseminate the figures that didn’t make it into the President’s speech, and quickly responded by tumbling over 300 points.

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NY Post: How not to save news. Bad gov’t ideas for journalism.

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

The Federal Trade Commission says it wants to save journalism. In a just-released “staff discussion draft” of “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” the agency only circles its wagons around old newspapers and their fading business models.

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