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The Diaper Pail's Blog Posts Tagged 'economics' (5)

The Privatization Fairy

Have you ever been having a conversation with a free-market ideologue and referred, in exasperation, to things like fire-department services and roads as examples of why some things are simply better accomplished through taxation by a government than through private "entrepreneurship?"

Well, now the industrious little gnomes at the American Enterprise Institute are even trying to take THAT one away. No, really. The article's…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on January 29, 2011 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Goldman Wrests the Title Back From BP

The Title of "America's Most-Loathed Corporation," I mean. At least they did in my book, after I read this:…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on July 5, 2010 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Fe, Fi, Fo, Frum

(cross-posted at Post Tenebras Lux)

...I smell the blood of a propagandist!

Recognize this guy? He's David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and current talking head on many a cable outlet's political TV show. He also runs his own…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on May 17, 2010 at 10:39am — 1 Comment

Byron Dorgan SLAMS Financial Reform, Calls For Stronger Regs.

Watch it here.

Hellz yes, Byron. You go get 'em: 100% correct.

Why IS it, though, that these guys - both parties, the Democrats are only slightly less susceptible to it - only sound like this, like populist, pro-consumer barn-burners, after they've announced they'll not run again?…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on May 13, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

NOW He Tells Us

Cripes. In an interview with ABC's Jake Tapper for last weekend's This Week, Bill Clinton mentions - seemingly almost in passing - that he now feels that