Have you noticed all the slanted not so vague negative bias about unions in newsprint articles lately? GM's "union" excuse for insolvency started the recent kick I think. Lately though it's been 'instransigent' public employee unions in cities and state gov'ts.... pensions too high, health benefits too high, etc....
Read "Company Store Redux" posted 12/12. Finally an economic model that begins to realize the economics of financial inequality leads to just where we are now... and going nowhere or backwards in the future.http://www.maxineudall.com/
Before I show the most recent chart of weekly initial unemployment claims, let me show you a table of the last 8 years of 4Q weekly unemploymnet claims trend for the quarter. The 2nd col. is the year end weekly unemployment claims; 3rd col. is the compound weekly change for beginning Oct to End Dec for the respective year. ...
Really good --- on describing what's 'fair'... linked from "Two papers worth reading" Maxine Udall -- Girl Economist's blog.
Here's the paper: ...
I found this link in a Krugman blog today. A year before the bottom fell a report by Federal Reserve said that Fannie/Freddie said:
"Further, a Federal Reserve Board staff study had earlier found that the GSEs, despite their large and growing portfolios and dominance of ...
might think. I say this because if you ever been to Yokahama or downtown Singapore you've been in the underground city with wide, air conditioned underground passages stores, restaurants, etc. that link most parts of the central city together below ground and have direct passages or escalators or elevators to above ground shopping ...
There are a lot of 'door' opening options to allow full head-room clearance to enter/exit vehicle. The main requirement is, that when doors are open there is no interference with another vehicle preceeding, behind, or adjacent with doors open when all vehicles are end to end in entrance/egress area's for the vehicles (parking ...
There are several components to the savings to society (and individuals) obtained by a unified vehicle transport system of the kind I've previously outlined.
Just a couple of them for starters:
Vehicle Mass
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Great article on moral behavior source being from social animals... mammals, and that religion is not why we have morals, but that religion is formed from moral behavior to offer moral "guidance"... i.e. future behavior. The last sentance says it all I think:
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At the end of WikiRebels, Iceland TV journalist, Kristinn Hrafnsson concludes, ?Democracy without transparency is not democracy.?
There are two problems with this conclusion since it assumes (or implies) wrongly that a democracy actually exists at all.
Transparency is just one of many pre-requisites,&...