Financial advice of the day.

Given recent stimulus news, I think it’s evident that there is no better time than now to buy shares of Old Glory Insurance.
Easiest money in the history of financial markets.

…and can I have it in twenties, please?

This is hilarious, and I wouldn’t be surprised if these guys end up as Darwin Award recipients.
Two Japanese travelers trying to enter Switzerland were caught carrying $134 billion — yes, billion — in fake US Treasury bonds in a briefcase. The forgeries contained 249 securities with a face value of $500 million, several “worth” more [...]

Don’t let it ever be said…

That McCain is not the candidate of change.
I mean, some may have trouble seeing how propposing to make the disastrous GWB’s tax cuts permanent may be a departure from the current administration’s economic policy. But they are not thinking outside the non-maverick box.
I mean think about it, right now the sensible thing would be to [...]

Earmarkpalooza!

Via Ezra Klein’s earmarks post I came across this handy link to take a look at your local pork.
The 5 closest projects to me are:

$100,00 To: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4927, in Centereach, New York ; For: building renovation and build out.
$75,000 To: Selden/Centereach Youth Association for an after school program.
$200,000 To: St. Catherine [...]

Two cc’s of smelling salts, stat!

Had I been one of the men and women who had to witness such a vulgar, vicious, offensive speech, I too would have ignored the fact that I thought the bill that was about to be put up for vote was absolutely necessary to save the country’s economy, and would have [...]

Good thing he was a PoW

…otherwise people might be saying McCain’s lied about his aide’s ties to Freddie Mac.
(Hint: He said there were no ties.)
(SPOILER (inviso-text!): There are.)

Our eight year old Treasury Secretary didn’t take that missing cookie from the cookie jar. Pay no mind to the cookie crumbs on his hand.

What Krugman (and others) said.
This is the guy who’s asking for our trust in handling ludicrous amounts of money? I sense a potential “Heckuva job, Brownie!” moment.
Democrats, don’t fuck this up.
Fail pic (which I expect to be plastered all over the tubes soon), via Atrios.

Tax Raising Democrats!

Here you can find out roughly how high will your negative-dollars Obama communist tax increase be!
I hope it gets plastered all over the tubes.
Personally, I’m for higher taxation if it goes to funding social services and managed efficiently. Government bloat and chronic bureaucracy inefficiency suck balls. If I was emperor, I’d try some Scandinavian-style policies, [...]

Welcome to the land of opportunity!

Damn, I just ran across this post*, which does a nice analysis of income distribution in the US starting at 1979. This image to the left I find plain shocking. That skyrocketing line at the top is the percentage increase in income for the top 1%. All those lines below 0%, meaning those who have [...]