With the economy still in miserable mode, I thought this was a great way to save money: A Financial Fast.
Part of the fast is lay off using plastic, and the reasoning is very sound:
Curtailing your consumption is just one part of the fast. The second part is eliminating the use of plastic, both credit and [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to talk about the energy bill today, but instead he got quite emotional in speaking about Ted Kennedy’s death.
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Biden said:
“He was never defeatist,” Biden said. “He never was petty. Never was petty. He was never small. And [...]
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Aired on Monday, Rachel Maddow reported on the switch a day made between the White House statements of the weekend and those on Monday. Jane Hamsher, of FireDogLake, joined Rachel at the end of the segment to discuss her effort to lead a progressive push for a public healthcare option in any case. [My [...]
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The Weekend Must Read comes by way of Jonathan Alter on NEWSWEEK: “What’s Not to Like?”
Alter, who had cancer a few years ago says:
I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won’t be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my homeowners’ insurance, which gets canceled [...]
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Joe Biden on “This Week” today: “The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy.”
Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent [...]
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There have been a lot of calls of late to drop the stimulus plans put in place to aid recovery from the recession. Paul Krugman explains today why “It’s much too soon to give up on policies that have, at most, pulled us a few inches back from the edge of the abyss.”
Krugman notes that despite [...]
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As readers have no doubt noticed it has been pretty quite around here in the past couple of weeks. I have a very full plate since my recent move back home to Massachusetts and I am juggling way too much.
When I first started The Dem Daily nearly 4 years ago, my business was far more [...]
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Note to readers: I’ve been spending the past few days settling in from my move… again. I’m done now, with the moving that is. I’m settling in, in the Newburyport, Massachusetts area, where I grew up, after a little over 19 years away. It’s good to be home.
There’s an irony in all of this moving for me… [...]
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