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Friday August 10, 2012 · 3:59 PM PDT

2012/08/10 · 15:59

The humble and altruistic beginnings of corporate raider ... or so the title of this NYTimes piece would have to believe.

In Real Estate Deal, Romney Made His Loss a Couple’s Gain

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Monday June 18, 2012 · 8:57 AM PDT

2012/06/18 · 08:57

I've been trying to get a handle on the Greek elections Sunday night and the affect it could have on the global economy (and honestly what it would mean for Obama's chances of reelection) and I caught this little tidbit at the end of a Telegraph UK article...

A Greek government must agree 77 austerity measures and sack 150,000 civil servants to get the next instalments of a €240 billion EU-IMF bail-out by the end of the summer.

Knowing that the US has lost over 600K public sector jobs since Obama has been in office (over 3.5 years), that 150K number seemed awfully high. I wondered what the population of Greece was, I expected it to be around 30M. Well, it's only 10M. Now the 150K started to sound REALLY extreme. So, because I'm a selfish American, i thought I'd put that in context for the US (being 30X larger population), that would be ... carry the two ... 4.5M PUBLIC SECTOR JOBS ELIMINATED! 4.5 MILLION. By the end of the summer.

The 600K in the US, compared to other post recession public sector employment gains, is estimated to have raised the unemployment rate a full percentage point. Imagine hiw 4.5M would taste? How can the rest the Eurozone (particularly Germany), expect Greece not to tear itself apart, and/or ever recover?

I'm just speechless. I know austerity is not the path out of a recession, and I know Greece's situation is unique (and not "just" a recession), but this just seems absolutely insane.

Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

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Wednesday September 15, 2010 · 4:15 PM PDT

2010/09/15 · 16:15

Not much to say other than this has to be not-quite-great but gooder than good news, and it lends some credibility to the Gallup generic ballot of a week ago that showed a tie. It's hard to refute that we are gaining some momentum...

2010 Congress: Generic Ballot
45% Democrat, 44% Republican

http://www.pollster.com/...

Poll

95 votes Show Results

With the Primary season over, and less than 2 months until election day, will Democrats continue to make gains in the Generic Ballot?

95 votes Vote Now!

With the Primary season over, and less than 2 months until election day, will Democrats continue to make gains in the Generic Ballot?

AYE! They will take a permament lead!

43 votes

ARE YOU BAT-SHIT? No way.

2 votes

Polls are for suckers.

5 votes

It will ping-pong until election day and then be off by 10 points like every other poll this season.

17 votes

I don't really care, I want the enthusiasm gap to shrink.

28 votes

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Just one of the unbelievable austerity demands on Greece

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