Empty shine stand at Grand Central.
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- The late great Roger Ebert's list of the 10 greatest films of all time.
- This weekend I sat down, as my father and grandfather did before me, and shined my shoes. Shoe shining is becoming a lost art. If you don't shine, you are by definition dull. You will find important items like a good horsehair brush, buffing rags, and several shades of Kiwi at your local store. But you may not find a proper shine box. Here's how to make one.
- The FBI is investigating the Rutgers Men's Basketball coaching staff. Because really, the Justice Department can only investigate things when they are convinced a crime has been committed and a sufficient case can be brought to win a conviction. Limited resources, yadda yadda yadda.
- Meanwhile, JP Morgan's Board of Directors is trying to convince its shareholders not to fire Jamie Dimon as Chairman. Yep, you heard me...the directors are telling the shareholders to keep a guy who just blew $6.2 billion. Justice Department? "Nothing to see here. Move along."
- Naked Capitalism absolutely dismantles Obama's infamous Hamilton Project speech. I don't take that speech as seriously as they do in explaining Obama's deficit fixation. Seemed to me like fairly typical Democratic Party centrist/DLC/Third Way pablum before Democrats swept the 2006 election.
- The three biggest economic boosters that have passed under the Obama Administration were 1. The Making Work Pay Tax Credit ($116 Billion), 2. Recovery Act infrastructure investments ($118 Billion), and the auto bailout + cash for clunkers ($28 Billion). As of today none of these programs are in effect or have any chance of being re-enacted.
Instead, we just passed another $3.4 trillion round of the Bush Tax Cuts and made them permanent. We've cut about $1 trillion in discretionary spending across the board. And now we're talking hundreds of billions in cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
Now, you tell me who is winning the economic policy argument.
- The only dead tree magazine I still read is Vice whenever I find it lying around in Manhattan. Online, it just isn't the same...but still good. And I noticed it is actually easier to avoid the ads in the print version. Go figure.
- Looking forward to your links and discussion!