My bus stop is near a seniors center downtown. That is a good thing. However, there is no outside seating for the center. This means that the seniors who still smoke (and there are a lot of them) come over to hang out around the bus stop. Uhg. This morning I counted 10 people smoking …
Tag Archives: economics
Alarm bells
Read this, and you will know why I won’t buy a house in San Diego.
Toxic kitty dust
There is a feral cat that hangs out in the courtyard of my building. This morning I walked outside to see him sharpening his claws on some furniture someone had left outside. Even the wild cats like a good chair scratch. Interest rates are going up. You know that dust on your computer? Well, its …
Neoconomy
India just elected Sonia Gandhi in a surprise victory. Neoconomy – It sounds like a recipe for the kind of social unrest that can make an economy stagger, stagnate, or worse. A political backlash would seem almost inevitable. And something worse – like a riotous manifestation of anticapitalist sentiment – would become a real possibility …
Greenspan is a tard
Uhg. Greenspan is a wanker. Yesterday he warned that America’s soaring federal budget deficits were a huge threat to the US economy, even though interest rates are rock bottom. This is the same guy that is for maintaining tax cuts, even making present tax-cut plans permanent. But thinks we should cut Social Security and Medicare …