Steve Keen has a must read article, Steve Keen’s DebtWatch No 31 February 2009: “The Roving Cavaliers of Credit”, that turns the accepted relationship of money supply and the Fed on its head. Eugene Fama speaks of government recapitalization of banks in Government Equity Capital for Financial Firms.
As Timothy Geithner has apty demonstrated, if you’re well commected, you get a free pass for tax evasion; and a promotion to manage the department that includes the IRS. In further evidence that being wealthy gives you a pass, the IRS is apparently going to give tax cheats who hide their assets offshore a free [...]
I can’t believe Farhad Manjoo wrote an entire article comparing every browser but Opera. He even comments on how much he loves the Firefox mouse gestures plugin, a feature that Opera pioneered. What a shame! I use Tab Mix Plus in conjunction with Foxmarks, which allows me to share Firefox bookmarks across computers. I can [...]
I spent the past three days evaluating various JavaScript dependency resolution and packaging solutions, predominately on the client side. I didn’t find anything completely enamoring. My objective is twofold. Maintain JavaScript sources using a file per class policy as a general rule. Serve the actual JavaScript portion of my application to the client in one [...]
Several must read articles just from the past couple days. No Return to Normal Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. James K. Galbraith. The Big Takeover. The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. [...]
Many different solutions exist. JSLoad is a Javascript file loader that [they] wrote for Instructables. jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading scripts into a client-side Javascript application. Orphaned? The YUI Loader Utility is a client-side JavaScript component that allows you to load specific YUI components and [...]
Enough is fucking enough. What the fucking fuck? While the American International Group comes under fire from Congress over executive bonuses, it is quietly fighting the federal government for the return of $306 million in tax payments, some related to deals that were conducted through offshore tax havens. This ought to disspell any notion that [...]
Need to import your credit card transactions from your bank? Having trouble getting it to work? Looks like your bank didn’t pay Intuit’s extortion fee. (Actually, you didn’t pay — most banks charge you for this header in their QBO export on Intuit’s behalf.) As it happens, however, your OFX file is very nearly exactly [...]
From Duh, Hedge Funds Bought AIG Credit Default Swaps Too: But this truly intelligence-insulting bit from the Treasury secretary is this: “We will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the Treasury from the operations of the company the amount of retention rewards just paid,” Geithner wrote. “In addition, we will deduct from the [...]
Nothing is quite as enraging as being told it’s for my own good to get fucked over by AIG’s banksters by bankster tool Sorkin at the New York Times. After being told repeatedly that union workers at the Big Three need to agree to all manner of benefit cuts and have their contracts renegotiated, it’s [...]