One year ago today the world's financial system began a meltdown ( Read more... )

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Everyone knows it takes 60 votes to pass the Stimulus bill in the Senate because any Senator could filibuster the bill, and to terminate the filibuster takes 3/5's of all Senators, rounded up (3/5 * 99 = 60 rounded up ( Read more... )

The headlines scream that we are experiencing job losses not
seen since 1974. And it's true, if all you care about is
nabobs nattering non-normalized numbers.

Fortunately for me, someone did most of the analysis I was
going to do and Google found itHere's a table of contiguous-month job loss data (that is ( Read more... )

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The Berkeley City Council will be voting soon to give its City Manager ( Read more... )

We have a 15 year old mattress. We have no idea how long ( Read more... )