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Category Archives: Big Shitpile
A ‘Balance Sheet’ Recession or an Unemployment-Based One?
What we should be worrying about is unemployment, not account balances.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Economics, Healthcare
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MERS and the Potential for Real Judicial Activism
Judges could seriously gum up the foreclosure works.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Housing
Treasury Admits HAMP Was a Banker ‘Bust Out’
There are going to be millions of middle-class people who will hate Democrats because of this lousy, indefensible back-door assist to banks and wealthy property owners.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile, Housing
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Update on Suckers and Strategic Default
“[The wealthy] clearly regard the odds of legal action as low.”
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile, Ethics
Not Walking Away from Underwater Mortgage Is for Suckers-and People Who Aren’t Rich
High income households are more likely to strategically default.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile
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Digby Closes the Circle on ‘Fiscal Austerity’
We have a very difficult political problem: deficit spending helped get us into this mess, yet fiscally responsible deficit spending is the only way out of what was once considered near-catastrophic unemployment.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Economics
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The Human Genome Project: What Happens When You Do Budget-Limited Science (or You Get What You Pay For)
The Human Genome Project: you get what you pay for.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Economics, Genomics, Microbiome
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Banks Refusing to Own Big Sh-tpile
A few billion here, a few billion there.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile
About Teachers Being ‘Shovel Ready’ Post….
Apparently, economist Christine Romer thinks so too.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Economics
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About TARP, It’s Not Inflationary If Banks Do It?
Welcome to the world of INIIBDOI.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile, Economics
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