Stable Genius Liberal

The commies are hiding under Allen West’s bed.

Anyone else think he did this to bait Colbert into creating a twitter meme?

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ilovecharts: In 2001, the CBO projected a cumulative surplus of $6 trillion. This graph shows how that surplus turned into $6 Trillion deficit. via languageofbrands

The Spanish government, fearful of the bond markets, enacted tough austerity budget measures that decreased Spanish people’s incomes and therefore demand for the products of Spanish firms. This has pushed the country deeper into recession, so it should come as little surprise that their bond sales are now going poorly. That’s counterproductive austerity at work.… Continue reading Untitled

Why Nations Fail, the Thomas Friedman book report

Thomas Friedman and his magical mustache of understanding cranks out a really lame book review of Why Nations Fail. Mr. Friedman is a really awful writer and this comes off like a night-before-its-due book report.

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So how come the roads are so bad in the richest part of the country? Can’t even the rich people get the government to do things for them in Haiti? Actually they can and do, that’s not the problem here. Here is a hypothesis that was independently proposed by three different people last summer to… Continue reading Untitled

Why is Haiti so poor?

“At the end of World War II, Haiti and the Dominican Republic had essentially identical levels of income per capita. Thereafter, they diverged. ”

Worth a read. Why Nations Fail is the most thought provoking blog in my reading queue these days.

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We’ve had dire warnings about runaway inflation for more than three years at this point. When do people start to consider that maybe they have the wrong model? Floodgates – NYTimes.com

Justice Kennedy is the 3rd branch of government

Can we end this charade that the SCOTUS is deciding the constitutionality of the Obama-Care mandate and admit that Justice Kennedy is, for the time being; the 3rd branch of government?

Surveillance Tapes Show Zimmerman Without Bloody Nose or Gash to Head

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what the money of rich cranks does is ensure that bad ideas never go away — indeed, they can gain strength even as they fail in practice again and again. The notion that wonderful things happen if you cut taxes on the rich and terrible things happen if you raise them has a stronger hold… Continue reading Untitled