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Can California Be Allowed to Fail?

So the fallout of Wall Street is hitting Capitol Avenue and the budgetary hole is growing by the week.  Just before the recent election the deficit was estimated to be between 15 and 21 billion dollars.  My big question is … Continue reading

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How Bad is It? It’s Pretty Stinking Bad…

It is finally clear to me what’s wrong and I wouldn’t have gotten it unless I worked in a business doing the books at this time. Credit is frozen.  This means that we can’t pay our vendors in full or … Continue reading

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Greenspan Didn’t See the Trainwreck Coming?

Well here we are a couple weeks out from the election and the examination of the fiscal crisis is in full swing.  Greenspan is before the Congress as the high and mighty want to know what wrecked the train.  What … Continue reading

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If I Am Paying, I Want Some Entitlements

Republicans have called Democrats “Tax and Spend Liberals” for many years.  Republicans call Liberals big spenders who create “entitlement” programs.  In other words, programs that provide things for people that they come to feel they are entitled to. What are … Continue reading

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The Economic Light of Day

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”  Plato It seems to me that the economic light is clear.  The greed of our … Continue reading

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Trickle Up Bankruptcy Part II

I work for a business that I think is symbolic of the model that we’ve built our business structure upon.  The first morning of this week we heard of two other businesses that had closed their doors: one was a competitor and another was a … Continue reading

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New Cranky Bullets!

Cranky Bullets ·         OK, so the Dow is dropping like a stone in a bottomless well and we just gave the banks almost a trillion dollars to free up the credit market.  Are they required to free up the credit … Continue reading

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