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Road to … a Banana Republic

August 3, 2011
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Road to … a Banana Republic

What a fragile, perilous state we find ourselves in. It’s like sailing through an iceberg field while the captain and helmsman are drunk.

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Where did all the (money) go?

March 24, 2011
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Where did all the (money) go?

Where did all the growth go? Has anyone looked in the pockets of the bankers, hedge-fund managers, and mortgage brokers?

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Invest in human capital

March 20, 2011
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If businesses want a customer base, they need to invest in human capital.

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Ounce of Prevention

March 19, 2011
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Ounce of Prevention

Things that glow in the dark can be fun or very, very dangerous.

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Higher wages = lasting growth

January 29, 2011
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Higher wages = lasting growth

The only one way back to real and lasting growth: higher wages.

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A Tale of Four Bumper Stickers

November 14, 2010
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A Tale of Four Bumper Stickers

Public art with no bounds.

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Come Fly With Me

October 1, 2010
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Come Fly With Me

If American firms are trying to make a statement or sway the midterm election by failing to hire, then we really have entered a new era. Corporate CEOs seem willing to kill the rest of the economy to save their golden geese.

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Rescued against all odds

August 11, 2010
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The only significant contributions to positive economic indicators have since early last year been reflective of government efforts to shore up the economy.

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"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
— Mitch McConnell, Republican Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate - interview in the National Journal, October 25, 2010

“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise..."
— John Boehner, soon-to-be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Definition: Fascism

Fascism, a philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Quote of the moment

If you marry for money, you will earn it. — Ezra Bowen

They Said What?

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." - Ann Coulter