Do you want the factual or the emotional arguments against what has become an unfortunate Indiana General Assembly tradition in recent years — consideration of legislation to allow guns to be brought into the workplace? The Senate actually passed such a bill in 2009 (by a 42-8 vote) and it returns this morning in the Senate Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters Committee (in the form of SB 25 ). Yes, individuals have a right to bear arms.
Global economy is seems to be expanding after a recent shock. Indian Economy , however just felt the blow of the global economic recession and the real economic growth have seen a sharp fall followed by the lower exports, capital outflow …
Great post by the admirable Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse on MercatorNet. (H/T RuthBlog ) Excerpt: California’s high-profile federal lawsuit against Proposition 8, which begins in court on January 11, appears to be about creating a federal case for same sex marriage.
Member News Pasadena Chamber members are among the best at what they do. Here’s what some are up to: Caltech presents A Conversation with Anne Mulcahy, chair of Xerox Corporation, on Wednesday, February 3rd at 8:00 p.m. For information on this FREE event, please call (626) 395-4652
Today’s Daily Angle comes from Wikinvest Wire member David Hunkar of TopForeignStocks.com. You can read the full article on David’s blog . Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full NYSE:BSI chart at Wikinvest Some of the largest food and drug retailers in the U.S
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Welcome to the Rowlett Chamber Chatter! The strength of a Chamber of Commerce has always been in its members. The amount of expertise, knowledge, and experience spanning a diverse group of businesses creates a powerful organization. With our new blog, members can easily post comments and communicate with one another sharing information, knowledge, tips and resources
VeteranOwnedBusiness.com is proud to welcome American Veterans Helping Veterans of Bolingbrook , Illinois ( Will County IL ) to the Veteran Owned Business Directory Non Profit Section . American Veterans Helping Veterans Details: The mission of American Veterans Helping Veterans is based on inherent human conditions.
This long article from Reason magazine is must reading. (H/T ECM) The author, Greg Lukianoff, is the the president of FIRE (Foundation for individual Rights in Education). Here are some of the scariest parts: Other codes promise a pain-free world, such as Texas Southern University’s ban on attempting to cause “emotional,” “mental,” or “verbal harm,” which includes “embarrassing, degrading or damaging information, assumptions , implications , [and] remarks” (emphasis added)
One of the themes stressed by the BarCap research is that the funding problems of weak banks are likely to see stronger, better-funded, European banks growing bigger at their expense, thus exacerbating the Too Big to Fail problem. This isn’t a theoretical issue
Oh my gosh, guys! Elder Tate Brinton from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints “Mission to Tegucigalpa” totally met Honduran strongman Roberto Micheletti this weekend and it was so neat! See what happened is that Brinton’s got a friend who has a friend who cleans the dictator’s house, right? So they got a tour and the fake president–who came to power in a coup last summer–even came out and shook their hand and everything! But like a lunkhead Elder Brinton totally forgot to have a Book of Mormon on hand and wasn’t able to give one to the guy who officially ended democracy in Honduras, forever. Sheesh, guy, what a fudge-up! Anyways then they went and ate
There’s been some discussion in comments here of some recent Barclay’s Capital research on the European banking sector and it raises a number of issues worth putting on the front page. (The Sunday Tribune also had a couple of nice articles using the Barcap research; one by Ian Guider and one by our old friend Jon Ihle .) The BarCap research is not publicly available but FT’s Alphaville column dedicated three articles to it.
Dean Baker Truthout, January 11, 2010 See article on original website The deficit hawks in Congress are pushing again to establish a special commission to deal with the problem of the deficit. They are trying to include a provision establishing such a commission as part of a bill to increase the country’s debt ceiling. The deal is that this commission would produce a set of recommendations to reduce the deficit.
Dear Friends of CEPR, I have a new book out this month: False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy . I felt the need to write this book because, remarkably, the people who somehow could not see an $8 trillion housing bubble still could not understand the bubble even after it wrecked the economy. It was as though their house had burnt down in a fire and they were checking on the burglar alarm.
Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, as well as smaller firms like Tricadia Inc., and certain of favored hedge fund clients that were tipped off by the banks, reaped huge profits by shorting (betting against) “synthetic” collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) linked to residential mortgages, which the banks created and sold to other clients, according to Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story in their recent New Times article, “Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won.”
The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Start getting into the habit of saving each week right now, at the beginning of the year. Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month
Paul Krugman has a follow-up post to his earlier one where he points out that being pro-European is one thing, but that being pro-EMU in the 1990s was another. I have one gripe with the piece: it wasn’t only ugly Americans (and eurosceptic Little Englanders) who were €-sceptical. Here is a newspaper article by Peter Neary, for example, written in 1997, and I have already linked to a longer 1997 piece by Neary and Thom, as well as to a 2000 article by Thom and myself that make my own feelings on the subject pretty clear.
The Montana Supreme Court has issued an order setting a 90-day period for comments on a petition filed by the State Bar Board of Trustees and the Ethics Committee to revise and amend three rules that deal with attorney advertising…
Iceland, ” the first country to be run like a hedge fund “, was the original warning sign of the current financial crisis. Today’s chaos in the country, following its rejection of the €4bn bank compensation deal agreed with the UK and The Netherlands, may similarly prove to be the fore-runner of the next stage in the crisis.
Dean Baker Boston Review , January/February 2010 See article on original website Wall Street bankers, along with the rest of the players in the financial industry, like to think of themselves as swashbuckling capitalists. They battle cutthroat competition with one hand and oppressive government bureaucracy with the other.
Story from the UK Telegraph . (H/T Weasel Zippers via ECM) Excerpt: The chance to secure crucial information about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen was lost because the Obama administration decided to charge and prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, critics say. He is said to have reduced his co-operation with FBI interrogators on the advice of his government-appointed defence counsel
It’s no surprise that local government reform, with a focus on townships, will be pushed for during the Indiana General Assembly session — with the Indiana Chamber leading the way. An unexpected entrant into the battle, however, is HB 1181 from Rep
Michael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of the Federal Reserve. Belongia talks about the role that power and politics play in Federal Reserve decision-making and how various Fed chairs used their power to suppress dissent within the Fed that was critical of Fed policy.
Today’s Daily Angle comes from Wikinvest Wire member Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism . You can read the full article on NakedCapitalism.com Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full NYSE:GS chart at Wikinvest Wow, has someone declared “Forced Out CEO Tries to Salvage His Reputation Month” when I wasn’t paying attention?
As I pointed out in May 2008: The U.S. has imprisoned 2,500 children since 9/11 as “enemy combatants”, in violation of the Geneva Convention against classifying children as POWs … Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh says that the U.S.