“华盛顿邮报”告诉我们什么“白宫”相信" 关于金融交易税
In a blogpost discussing the push by many groups to get a financial transactions tax the Post told readers: “The White House believes it would be easy to evade, could hamper economic growth, and might make markets more volatile, not less so. 相反, Obama has proposed a new “financial crisis responsibility fee” on big banks, [...]
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Those who think the answer to the unemployment problem is more education might be surprised to learn the Majority of Unemployed Attended College. For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age 25 and up who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a high school [...]
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The methodology that the Treasury Department is using when claiming that we made money on the TARP would imply that the government could make money by issuing a 30-year mortgage at 1.0 percent interest to every homeowners in the country. The vast majority of these mortgages would of course be paid off with interest, 因此 [...]
阅读更多华盛顿邮报对希腊的选择提供重要的误导
A front page Washington Post article discussed the choice that people in Greece must consider, of either staying in the euro and facing perhaps a decade or more of double-digit unemployment, or leaving the euro and facing the uncertainty of going back to its own currency. The Post misrepresented the tradeoffs involved when it presented [...]
阅读更多华盛顿邮报头版政府雇员不遵守交通规则的故事
It wasn’t quite that bad, but it was pretty close. A front page Washington Post story told readers that: “The overpayments, discovered in an inspector general’s audit, boosted the annual pay of some of the employees [some of four employees] by as much as $64,000.” I will be the last person to defend to people [...]
阅读更多服装销售价格及成交量提供有趣的观
Reader Tim Wallace provides an interesting chart of apparel sales in the US by price and by unit volume. 在这种情况下, volume is likely the more telling statistic. click on chart for sharper image Tim writes … Hi Mish As always, I am watching imports, especially with fascination the apparel imports. In the attached [...]
阅读更多意大利部署 20,000 执法人员在保护个人和敏感地点; 通过加拿大从意大利轶事: 征税的家门
意大利部署 20,000 Law Enforcement Officers to Protect Individuals and Sensitive Sites The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Italy deploys 20,000 to protect sensitive targets Italy increased security Thursday at 14,000 网站, and assigned bodyguards to protect 550 individuals after a nuclear energy company official was shot and letter bombs directed to the tax collection agency. [...]
阅读更多西班牙不良贷款比率在 8.37 百分之, 17年来新高; 在录制CD高; bankia遭受购买巨额亏损 15.5 万元及其自己的股份以稳定价格; 西班牙聘用高盛价值Bankia
It’s time for another roundup on Spain. Every day is time for another roundup on Spain. Today’s report is on bad loans, and complete foolishness at Bankia buying its own shares hoping to stabilize its price. Spanish Bad-Loans Ratio Hits 8.37 Percent The Wall Street Journal reports Spanish Bad-Loans Ratio Hits 17-Year High Bad debts [...]
阅读更多默克尔接近希腊与“成长的建议" 同时要求公投欧元; 选举提供又一次企图抢夺胜利大白鲨失败; 新民主主义信息最新民调
Greek elections are set for June 17th following the impasse of the last election where no majority government formed. 该 “Destroy Greece to Save the Euro” clowns led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel are out in force hoping to turn the vote into a direct referendum on the Euro. The election is of course a [...]
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