Daily Kos: Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts

Tom the Dancing Bug: Bankers and Baseball

H & I saw Michael Moore's film "Capitalism - A Love Story" today ( Read more... )

For those who haven't yet read either of these two articles on the US & the economy, recomended:

The Quiet Coup by Simon Johnson

The Big Takeover by Matt Taibbi

I first posted this back in July 2002. I think it's time for a repost.
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BBC reporters looking into where an estimated $23 billion in US taxpayer's money intended for the War in Iraq went are prevented from detailing their findings by gag order. BBC article

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq ( Read more... )

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Let's see...

Have I got this right? Mathematics never was my strong point...

Cost of Apollo program: $25.4 billion

Amount of moon material brought back by Apollo program: 381.7 kg

25,400,000,000 / 381,700

Works out to about $60,540 spent per gram of moon brought back, no?

Going rate for Apollo moon rock on open market: almost $5million per ( Read more... )

From The Independant:In debt to the Earth, and we can't repay ( Read more... )

Sociological/Economic Experiment Result of the Day:

People willing to make themselves poorer in order to destroy some of the money of those more wealthy.