"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
Old Man Potter collects that $3.3 billion in interest every year and only spends part of it on his household staff, limousine maintenance, imported cigars, etc. The rest of it just sits there in giant piles that Potter sometimes swims through Scrooge-McDuck-style, but otherwise doesn’t put to any productive use.
Warren Buffett on the shortcomings of gold; Adam Smith on the importance of paying high wages; Alisa Harris on the hatchet jobs written falsely accusing Kathryn Joyce of writing a hatchet job; the Rev. Phil Jackson on gun violence; and Steve Benen on Meals on Wheels, cancer treatment, Head Start and other things Congress doesn’t care about at all.
Here’s what we humans already knew and have known since before we started writing things down: Money is not sufficient for happiness. Money is necessary to avoid certain forms of unhappiness. It’s really not that complicated. It only appears complicated to those who: A) have enough money; and B) don’t have enough happiness.
An American story in three parts: 1) Four million families lose their homes due to improper foreclosures; 2) The banks get to keep the houses they improperly took, but they have to pay the families $300 to $500 each; 3) The banks’ checks bounce.
The class war continues and most people are not on the side that’s winning. Lots o’ links, including: Adorable child chimneysweeps for the plutocrat who has everything; $59 in 45 years; permanent inequality; ho-hum, another five years of mass unemployment; reverse incentives; lucky duckies on disability; lucky duckies on food stamps; and capitalist theories of atonement.
How big a boost to Regal’s bottom line will health care reform provide? I’m guessing it will be large. Much larger, I think, than whatever new costs-per-employee the law entails for the company. That calculation is a job for the company’s economists. Unfortunately, the company doesn’t have any economists, only accountants.
“Residents of the Greenbriar Village development say owner Equity LifeStyle Properties has been unjustly increasing their land rents, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Equity is the largest manufactured home community company in the United States and in some cases has increased land rents more than 100 percent in a year, said Randy Schaffer, the president of the Greenbriar homeowners association.”
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