We’re all subprime now
From Tanta at Calculated Risk, in a long post about how, yes, the poor and people of color generally got stuck with mortgages with higher interest and more onerous terms that did higher income Anglos. But, and this is a…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day October 11, 2007
Jimmy Carter: U.S. tortures prisoners
The U.S. tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday, adding that President Bush makes up his own definition of torture.
Iran War Watch. 10/11/07
How insane are these foaming-at-the-mouth warmongers? Check out Norman Podhoretz, known as the patriarch of neoconservative nutballism. A confidant of Bush, Podhoretz is now running around in the White House inner circle promoting a massive bombing attack on Iranians. He…
China has 106 billionaires
That’s up from 15 last year (according to Bloomberg TV) Barron’s reports (behind their subscription firewall) that more than a few of new Chinese stocks available on US markets were reverse splits into shell corporations, something which should immediately arouse…
Attention spammers
If you wish to send spam pretending to be the IRS, and tell me to clickthrough for the refund, don’t format the amount using European style notation, as Americans generally will wonder why the amount is “$123,45” and not “$123.45”…