This is a follow-on attempt to get my reader(s) to take a look at the article in my previous post. Matt blogs about his article and neatly summarizes his own more detailed report (see link above):
Looting Public Pensions: …
Month: September 2013
More sad news about the elite
Looting the Pension Funds
All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926
A rather sad article that details the hopeless stranglehold the elite have on the steadily shrinking middle class, but this time from the …
Random number
I feel this is very apropos, but, alas, can’t blog on it…
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Low crime tax
6 shocking revelations about how private prisons make money
Private prison companies are striking deals that guarantee high prison occupancy rates
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/23/6_shocking_revelations_about_how_private_prisons_make_money_partner/
I have talked about the prison industrial complex a time or twain before so this won’t be news …
The Shadow Knows!
The True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous)
The shadow banking system is vastly bigger than regulators had thought, say econophysicists who have developed a powerful new way to measure its hidden impact
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e1dd9d1642
I have read …
Breakfasts of champions
Myths Surround Breakfast and Weight
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/myths-surround-breakfast-and-weight/?_r=0
I am also guilty of repeating this concept. I do know that your glycogen levels are at their lowest in the morning (which is why that is the best time to exercise, your body …
The next ice age cometh?
And now it’s global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year
- Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
- BBC reported in 2007 global warming would
Dearth
I was over at http://xkcd.com/, prompted by a link from a comment at a blog I follow, when I decided to catch up on the ones I haven’t seen yet. Many interesting ones, but this one stood out and …