October 2009
10 posts
9 Banks that failed yesterday, that’s 153 branches http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
In 2008 the olympics got more overage than the war in Afganistan.
In 2007 the Afgan war received 1/16 the coverage of the Iraq coverage.
41% of US households wil owe no income tax
Most that pay no taxes earn less than 30k a year
Source: CNNMoney.com
The death penalty is barbaric and stupid
Never mind the ethical problems with it, table that discussion and think about how broke the government as a whole is. Due to legal appeals and the fact that “death row” inmates somehow cost more than the rest of the population, it cost Maryland $186 MILLION to execute five prisoners.
The average annual cost per federal inmate was around 23k a year. Do the math, don’t punish...
“If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?”
– Abraham Lincoln
there’s no such things as a jobless recovery
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it's no longer "health care reform"
It’s “Health Insurance Reform” according the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s latest speech.
I actually like to topic change, but I’m not sure many people caught it.
Good time to be a miner
Gold Spot Price
Bid: $1048.80
Ask: $1049.60
Latest unemployed numbers
This past week the BLS released the September unemployment statistics and they worsened as usual, as America enjoys its recovery.
U-1–Those unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force was 5.4%.
U-2-Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the labor force was 6.8%.
U-3-Total unemployed, as a percentage of the civilian labor force, the...