18 Congressmen Ask Obama to Reschedule Marijuana
by
turtledove
on 13 Feb 2014
30 comments, latest
11 years ago
18 Congressmen Ask Obama to Reschedule Marijuana Bipartisan group says pot's 'Schedule I' classification 'makes no sense.' Eighteen members of Congress are asking President Barack Obama, who recently said ...
White House: It's A Good Thing That Obamacare Will Drive 2.5 Million Americans
by
turtledove
on 5 Feb 2014
19 comments, latest
11 years ago
Yesterday, Washington’s official non-partisan bean-counter, the Congressional Budget Office, dropped a bomb. By 2024, says the CBO, Obamacare will reduce the size of the U.S. labor force by 2.5 ...
Black Friday Debate: What are the US' problems and how would you solve them?
by
turtledove
on 29 Nov 2013
104 comments, latest
11 years ago
If you had to say what our country's biggest problems are (3-5 top problems), what would your list look like? If you got to be our benevolent dictator, how ...
Oh, No: Now We Need Obamacare for Education
by
turtledove
on 3 Dec 2013
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
The latest news on U.S. educational attainment is depressing enough, since American kids are falling even further behind their counterparts in other countries. The implications may be more troubling ...
Blackstone Begins Rental Housing Empire in Spain
by
turtledove
on 30 Nov 2013
10 comments, latest
11 years ago
Blackstone Group (BX), builder of the biggest single-family rental home business in the U.S., is using its experience to replicate the model in Spain, where property prices have dropped ...
Why Banking Systems Succeed -- And Fail
by
turtledove
on 2 Dec 2013
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
Foreign Affairs Why Banking Systems Succeed -- And Fail The Politics Behind Financial Institutions People routinely blame politics for outcomes they don’t like, often with good reason: when the ...
WSJ Opinion: ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse
by
turtledove
on 29 Nov 2013
39 comments, latest
11 years ago
ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse How the Affordable Care Act raises prices and limits medical choices. Even as President Obama reluctantly granted Americans thrown off their health plans quasi-permission to ...
McDonalds suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to...
by
turtledove
on 16 Jul 2013
46 comments, latest
12 years ago
McDonald’ has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their meager peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate ...
Email from a RE agent... :0)
by
turtledove
on 29 Jul 2013
7 comments, latest
12 years ago
What would you do with an extra $24,000/year of cash flow? Simple summary, I showed the owners how to trade a $1.1 million dollar property that would rent for ...
Pretty big budget cut thanks to Patnet... Other ideas?
by
turtledove
on 17 Jul 2013
44 comments, latest
12 years ago
Several months ago, we had a thread going that went off on a tangent (what a shock) about cable vs. streaming. Prior to reading some of your posts, I ...
Risk of 1937 relapse as Fed gives up fight against deflation
by
turtledove
on 27 Jun 2013
203 comments, latest
12 years ago
The US Federal Reserve has jumped the gun. It has mishandled its exit strategy from quantitative easing, triggering a global bond rout that it did not anticipate, and is ...
France's triumphant 'Joan of Arc' vows to bring back franc and destroy euro
by
turtledove
on 1 Jul 2013
11 comments, latest
12 years ago
01 July 2013 MARINE Le Pen is spoiling for a fight. The leader of France's Front National vows to smash the existing order of Europe and force the break-up ...
Personal question...Anyone have experience with tendon repair?
by
turtledove
on 18 Jun 2013
5 comments, latest
12 years ago
This is completely off topic.... and may not be an appropriate use of these boards, but I'm getting desperate. I know we have a lot of athletic people on ...
Questions for the experienced landlords out there
by
turtledove
on 18 Jan 2013
6 comments, latest
12 years ago
My mother learned this week that her house was turned into a grow house by her new tenants. Here's the background: My mother has a couple of properties that ...
White House declines funding for Death Star
by
turtledove
on 17 Jan 2013
3 comments, latest
12 years ago
Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016. . This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For By Paul ...
What we can learn from the Great California Exodus (Sept. 2012)
by
turtledove
on 23 Dec 2012
148 comments, latest
12 years ago
I hope this hasn't already been posted. Didn't see this on the site. Thought it was interesting. http://www.manhattan-institute Executive Summary For decades after World War II, California was a ...
Gold Rushes and Bubbles
by
turtledove
on 19 May 2010
40 comments, latest
14 years ago
Hi. Been a long-time lurker; first time poster. Several articles posted recently talk about how the stock market is about to do something horrific and dollars won't be worth ...
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