Tag: Economics for Dummies
The History of Oil
Ever see a stand-up comedy routine about oil wars and oil coups? This Brit does a fantastic job of taking horrible reality and making it hilarious. Without, I might add, diverging for one moment from the truth.
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Some necessary levity
Okkupy teh Wall Streetz!
And why is this happening? Well,
That’s why. You can’t haz cheezburger when all da cookiez is in da banksterz.
Continue readingFear of a white shirt
A whiteshirt (the now infamous Anthony Bologna, police inspector, NYPD) pepper-sprays a group of peaceful women protesters at Occupy Wall Street. You can hear one of the blue-shirted officers say “I can’t believe he just fuckin’ maced her.” This incident took place near Union Square, in Manhattan. Dangerous Minds recently asked how many cops it […]
Continue readingShort ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx occupies Wall Street
It’s one of those drizzly, autumnal days around here. Usually, just the kind of weather that would send a kitty indoors, to curl up on her humans’ laps, with her tail wrapped cozily around all fours, purring and not letting them get up. But since Ms. Manx is a cyberkitty, and in any case has […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Talking back to the 1%ers
You heard the lady. Pay it forward, you tax-dodging billionaires.
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: It’s still going on
More at The Real News
And it will go on until further notice. (Speaking of which, Wall Street, you are now being put on.)
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx takes on Wall St.
The Stumpy Cat has been rather busy of late, chasing mice, moles, voles and chipmunks out in the garden. But she’s sticking her cyber-head in now to meow at me. Which is a sure sign that she’s found something out there besides rodents. Whatcha got for us, kitty? First up, Ms. Manx has a Facebook […]
Continue readingStupid Sex Tricks: 9-11, with a side order of commodified female flesh
Gawd bless Amurrica! This was uploaded by Hooters itself, two days before the 9-11 x 10 mourn-a-thon. I believe the underlying message is “Eat greasy wings and ogle these Twin Towers (hurr hurr, geddit?), or the terrorists win!”
(Thx, Jeze…
Quotable: B. Lester on hoarding
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend […]
Continue readingQuotable: Adam Smith said WHAT?
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to …the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ….[As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to] […]
Continue readingIn capitalism, everything is a commodity…
…be it women: …or children: Yes, that’s right…human beings are now objects to be “won” in stupid radio contests. Incidentally, both these contests are being held by Canadian radio stations. Isn’t there some kind of CRTC legislation against this kind of audience-grabbing stunt? Or human-rights legislation? Or, in the case of the Russian male-order bride […]
Continue readingPayola: Not just for $ and P anymore!
A while back, I posted about how a certain ratings agency takes payola. Now, it looks like another one also does: A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public with his story of how one of the country’s most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for […]
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: Another horrible trapped-miner story
Yes, this is satire. But it has a very large, uncracked grain of truth in it. Can you spot it?
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots
Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic root, and it’s NOT what the conservatives of the British parliament would have us believe. This is actually global in nature, and the Arab Spring […]
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: S & P = $ and Payola
Ah, nostalgia…it just ain’t what it used to be. Used to be that payola was just something that sleazy record promoters slipped to radio DJs to turn a mediocre pop song into a “smash hit”. Well, guess what? That basic concept has proved so lucrative that it has since expanded to engulf the financial sphere. […]
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: “Austerity” explained
…in terms so simple, even a Repug could understand them:
Shamelessly stolen from here. (Thanks, Pale!)
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: Happy Bastille Day!
Sing the choirs of cacophony: And like the good band says: La Guillotine will claim her bloody prize… A new survey from Insite Security and IBOPE Zogby International of those with liquid assets of $1 million or more found that 94% of respondents are concerned about the global unrest around the world today. Fully 90% […]
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