Friday Stack: hope-my-house-sells Edition
March 12th, 2009 | by rocketc |
Interesting news articles from the week:
This marks the first time that I have linked to a liberal editorial here at Rocket Finance: Camille Paglia and her piece, Heads should roll.
Kevin Hasset and what he perceives as an Obama administration war on private business.
This is an old article, but we need to continue to remember the role that government played in our banking collapse. Maxine Waters caught lying about ties to Fannie Mae.
All of a sudden, President Obama doesn’t think things are quite as bad as he thought. So we are not in the worst economy since the Great Depression? Can he take back the American Reinvestment Act now? The president is quoted as saying:
I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say.
Isn’t his administration the “they”?
From the personal finance blogosphere:
I am not the only one who thinks the climate change hysteria is all about the money. Al Gore stands to make bank on his theory and the Corner Office Blog is all over it.
The Silicon Valley Blogger thinks it might be a great time to buy a house. She might be right and hopefully a $8,000 tax credit does not get people into houses that they cannot afford . . .
My Life ROI disagrees with me about government spending. I still do not think that government spending is ever efficient . . . especially at the federal level. You make up your own mind.
Have a great weekend!
4 Responses to “Friday Stack: hope-my-house-sells Edition”
By Grant on Mar 14, 2009 | Reply
I’m of the opinion that this “global warming” craze is the biggest scam ever. You look at the ones promoting huge legislation to “stop global warming” and it turns out they’re the same ones who will make all the money if that legislation passes.
Where’s the transparency?
As I frequently say on my blog, “follow the money and you’ll find the incentive”.
-Grant
By rocketc on Mar 14, 2009 | Reply
There is no doubt in my mind that you are right. The bad thing is that the majority of people do not believe in man-made global warming, but because of the way our government operates at the moment, all this stuff is going to get rammed through without a majority of people in support of cap and trade, etc.
By The Digerati Life on Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
If global warming is a scam, I’m easily fooled because I buy into it. I buy into anything that threatens all of mankind — whether it be a pandemic, avian flu, SARs what not. Unfortunately, I’m the anxious type, but I worry over the weird, low probability stuff.
By rocketc on Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
SVB . . . you’re worried about man-made global warming? and you live in California? You have a whole list of far greater threats in that state.
I am all for being good stewards of our environment, but man-made GW is a ploy to destroy free markets. It would be great if a blogger of your stature were to do some investigation of both sides of the argument and then do a series of posts . . . I think you would quickly begin to have some doubts about who is telling the truth.