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Maybe it is time to play offense :: The Bush administration, the Fed and Congress, meanwhile, continue to focus on the immediate crises, with little attention to the underlying reasons that the economy has gotten into this mess — a stagnation of incomes, an explosion of debt and a decidedly outdated, and limp, approach to government oversight. Remarkably, the presidential campaign has gotten less serious, while the economy’s problems have become more so.
The U.S. government is in a bailout mood (either that or the economy is about to free fall) :: The Big 3 was in Washington with their hands out for “loan guarantees” which means that the government is bailing out an industry that gambled wrong with SUVs and now doesn’t have enough collateral to get any more capital.
The financial crisis keeps getting worse :: The dramatic events of the last year have called into question much of what policy makers, economists and investors once espoused about the financial system. As recently as the spring of 2007, many in Washington and New York continued to say housing prices could not fall across the board and that most of the bets made by Wall Street traders were inherently safe. Now, there are signs that psychology is driving a reverse line of thinking. People are assuming that things will get worse and that any move by the Fed or the Treasury is a step down, not a step closer to improvement. “There has been a tremendous amount of denial over the past two years, three years,” said Barry Ritholtz, chief executive of Fusion IQ, an investment firm, and author of The Big Picture blog.
After years of being a big punching bag to Apple’s advertising, Microsoft finally decides to fight back :: Rapid response like this makes John Kerry look good.
Correction of the Day
Being a community organizer is a conservative notion :: Also, Jim Wallis has more about that here.
Southern Baptists are more in favor of torture than the rest of the population
Why Brian McLaren is voting for Barack Obama
Complementarianism explained to the masses.
The problem with emerging church leadership
Ed Steltzer reviews that Church Basement Road Show
You think your job is bad? Try Anaconda hunting.
When PowerPoint visuals go bad
Also, if you are running for President and are looking for photos of supporters, it may not be a good idea to get them from iStockPhoto
What’s up with Google’s stock price
Michael Pollan teaches us how to eat
Banksy in New Orleans and in the deep south
Time for a Truth Commission to find out what is really going on?
Quote of the day from Joe Biden :: "Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn’t run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain." Speaking of John McCain and the economy. One of his advisors posted what is perhaps the worst timed op-ed in history
"Jesus was a community organizer; Pilate was a governor."