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 The Loyal Opposition They scare Angry reactionaries with guns spouting time worn simplistic crowd pleasers appealing to the base natures of our existence. How lovely. Angry reactionaries with guns spouting time worn simplistic crowd pleasers appealing to the dreams of mean haters who love the ideas of problem solving with the barrel of a gun or just …
Continue reading: The Loyal Opposition
 At least not if this advocate of Islamic finance is any guide (around 16.15 and 1.04.30). He puts the bog standard argument favoured in Islamic finance, namely that lenders should take a share of the profits in any business they lend to, rather than charge interest. Well the first problem there is that a large proportion …
Continue reading: I’m not impressed by Islamic finance
 Imagine living in a neighborhood where there might be a number of red reflective signs posted in front of some homes announcing the fact that a convicted sexual predator lives at the premises where the sign is posted. According to something I have read in the web site “Opposing Views” that is exactly what is happening in Bradford County, Fla., and it is being reported that …
Continue reading: Who’s Who In The Neighborhood?
 Date: May 18, 2013 – – Subject: Political Irony – – Re: Short Post About Moments I Hold Dear In My Heart – – OP-ED by John Liming – – On July 14, 2012 it looked to me like a whole helluva lot of hard-core Right Wingers were all over “Twitter” poking fun at President Obama for what …
Continue reading: Obama Confounds The Opposition!
In this paper, Jan Kregel addresses the following problem. It’s desirable for obvious reasons for governments to back bank deposits, or at least to guarantee some minimum amount of those deposits. Unfortunately, this gives rise to moral hazard: it induces banks to behave more recklessly. And second, that guarantee inevitably involves subsidising what is in …
Continue reading: Jan Kregel addresses a problem already solved by Positive Money & friends.
 The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on American policy toward Iran with a lot of information that seems almost humorous when compared with what we factually know. Let’s take a look at some of the points made by Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, during her opening comments. A nuclear-armed …
Continue reading: Testimony Shows Why U.S. Position on Iran is Laughable
 Good minds are drowned out and put to rest The arguments go round and round. The snipers snipe with putrid gusto. The sharp shameless redactors spring into action and show off their muscle over manner, their heft over honor, their mayhem over all. Hail to the cracker jack actors, intimidators, thugs, self satisfied shooters. Hail to …
Continue reading: Good minds are drowned out and put to rest
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