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Deregulation Not to Blame for Financial Woes
ByDerekGood column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
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Why I’ll never be a pirate
ByDerekA week ago I decided it would be a good idea to get my septic tank pumped. We’ve been in the house a year, and it had been about two years before that since the previous owner had it pumped. With winter and the baby on the way, it seemed like it might be a…
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Select Comfort – customer service failure
ByDerekIf you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you surely saw my interactions with Select Comfort customer service today. Here’s the entire story. In October 2005 we decided it was time for a new bed. Not wanting to skimp on quality and being interested in getting a bed that would accommodate our different sleeping preferences,…
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Time exposes the biofuel scam
ByDerekTime has a good article called The Clean Energy Scam on how the currently-politically-correct biofuel movement is exasperating environmental, economic, and social issues, not fixing them. Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to…
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On the Surface
ByDerekRevolutionary technology comes around only once in a great while. I’m not sure I would quite classify Microsoft Surface as revolutionary, but at a minimum it’s the biggest leap forward in computer-human interface design in a long time. As I sit here massaging my sore wrist, my mind says that anything that gets us a…
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Bloggers get blacklisted
ByDerekAn interesting story has developed that has now moved out of the blogosphere and into the mainstream media. It involves a tale of bloggers getting blacklisted at Western New York’s most popular AM talk radio station, WBEN AM 930. After reading BuffaloPundit’s first posting on his discussion with WBEN’s program director, Tim Wenger, I really…
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