Not My Mother’s Blog

So all right. I’m not an economist. I don’t have any letters after my name so I’m talking from a pure common sense perspective here. After reading about how our tax policies encourage corporations to invest in jobs overseas, I have a suggestion for economists to mull over and poke holes in. The Harvard Tax [...]

Last year, when the news broke about Bush’s suspension of habeas corpus, endorsement of torture in cases of terrorism and issues of domestic spying, I started telling friends that I had serious fears that the upcoming elections would not be held. I had visions of Bush announcing a major terrorist plot – or of a [...]

One of the things that I’m finding hardest to stomach these days is the new fad of blaming the current economic crisis on those fools who dared to dream that the American Dream might include them. The accepted response to “who is most at fault for the failure of the economy?” is ‘all those people [...]

This morning’s news from AP is that the SEC has placed a temporary ban on short-selling stocks to curb falling prices. That’s been a favorite aggressive market maneuver by options traders for a while. I’m not a market expert, but I’ve got a little common sense, and this is a common sense move. Basically, short-selling [...]

that’s what this rag calls itself. What it really looks like is a shill site that panders to the gullibility and credulity of people in debt to rake up fat affiliate profits from barely legal advertisers. Case in point – the banner ad on every page is for Cleansepatch, which claims to “effectively and immediately [...]

Over at WomensVoicesforChange, Chris Lombardi wondered: (We do wonder if the Newsday editors intentionally mis-heard Madsen, and if she meant what we know: that the world is telling us not to get old.) Our women are 64 to 94 living vibrant lives, when the world is telling you to get old. .. Oh, no, no, [...]