The Rising Tide

Shitigroup

I was among the first wave of 17,000 Citigroup employees to get downsized back in 2007, when the firm’s problems first began to surface. Perhaps surprisingly to some, getting rid of me didn’t get rid of their problems. It’s never fun to get the ax (although I have to admit, I did enjoy the extra quality […]

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Rally to End the Fed This Saturday

New York sound money activists, comprised of members of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, Campaign for Liberty NYC, and We Are Change, will gather at 33 Liberty Street this Saturday, November 22, 2008, from noon until 5 p.m. as part of a nationally coordinated action organized by members of Restore the Republic, the grassroots freedom movement

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Mukasey Smacks Down Kelly

It’s almost inconceivable that a government agency could have even less regard for civil liberties and the rule of law than the Bush Justice Department, but the NYPD is no ordinary government agency. It seems Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey are in a spat over the NYPD’s overly broad —

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Gutless Wonders

Albany Watch has a good roundup of editorial reaction to the three stooges’ farcical “emergency” budget meeting yesterday: The Albany Times-Union said it was a “showcase of New York dysfunction” and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos showed “New Yorkers exactly why he no longer deserves to be Senate majority leader.” But the New York Post’s

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Keynesianism or Changeenism?

Keynesian economics is an obsolete system for anyone who cares to know, or anyone who doesn’t care to live through the inevitable inflation created by it’s truly failed policies of spurring economic activity through massive government spending, especially when it involves impossible deficits. If someone could please inform this to our president elect Mr. Obama, let alone Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and particularly Barney Frank who possibly referred to this ideology by coining the term “changeenism”, unless he meant to say Keynesianism, a few weeks back when informing a reporter that deficits are nothing to worry about.

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Do You Feel a Draft?

  Barack Obama’s disturbing proposal for “universal voluntary public service” (as Michael Kinsley pointed out, it can either be universal or voluntary, but not both) just got a lot more traction with the selection of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.  J.D. Tuccille observes that Emanuel is a long-time proponent of compulsory national service. Emanuel is co-author of the

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Here Come the Tax Hikes

Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg announced the immediate cancellation of the city’s annual $400 property tax rebate checks. I always thought the rebate checks were a sham — they should have simply reduced property tax rate — but the canceling the program amounts to a de facto property tax hike. Mike is also proposing a 15% increase

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