There is a slight downtrend once you drop out the U.S. taxpayer supported outlier, Israel. What nearly all the countries on that plot have in...
Your title is misleading. The ruling was not that computer programs can't be copyrighted, it is that copyright does not apply to the...
The cheap labor "conservatives" have always been happy with illegal immigrants. They're the ones who hire them. As for health care, the brute...
What about stocks with a short restriction due to simply falling too far too fast? Can option MM short those? For example, today PBH has a short...
The issue is not how much you make during the 80% of the time when the market stays in a range but how much you lose the other 20% of the time.
Some states have been bludgeoned by reality into making real cuts in spending. But if you think the federal government has cut spending, please...
The Republicans look further right to liberal academics because the left keeps moving further left. Susan B. Anthony, a first wave feminist,...
This is the first time I've been impressed by testimony from Bernanke. Of course our politicians will continue to ignore reality and keep...
The hate seems to be coming from you.
It is a non sequitor to say that because climate change can happen without human intervention, that human intervention can't cause climate change....
The CBO estimates that the cost of the government conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $238 billion. Add to that the Federal Reserve...
If Obama really wanted to get rid of government programs that don't work he'd be on the same side as Ron Paul in wanting to get rid of the...
Speaking of ideologues, look in the mirror.
If your such a fan of GSEs, please pay my share of the taxpayer bailout of them.
Yes, GSE loans failed at a lower rate than the Wall Street subprime super bomb specials. But the fact remains that plenty of those loans failed....
The GSEs were by no means the sole cause of the crash but they did contribute to it. Both the management of those organizations and their bond...
Tell that to the Zimbabweans.
You'll give Obama credit for the sun rising.
Not all subprime loans were "liar loans". A loan could meet Fannie Mae's lowered standards and still be a crappy loan. And Freddie Mae was run...
Republicans wanted to impose stronger lending standards on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages. The Democrats were adamantly against it. It was...
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