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• Degrees of debt: Soaring college costs hobble a generation

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • The Baby Boom generation went to college practically for free and had almost no debt after graduation. High tax rates at the top (70-94%) helped pay their way from kindergarten through college. They never knew about classes being too full in grade school, schools closing, or K-12 budget cuts.

• Bernanke: Even worthy borrowers can't get mortgages

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • "The #1 Reason The Housing Recovery Is So Slow" By Simone Foxman | Apr. 30, 2012

• No end to US obesity epidemic, forecast shows

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Here are a few reasons for the obesity epidemic: 1. Yes, lack of exercise. 2. Fatigue and time pressure for women who have to work instead of being home with their children. If their husbands made living/family wages, the epidemic would be over quickly.

• Former Bain honcho says economic inequality is OK

  Wed May 2, 2012
  • Bain Capital extracted the pensions of hard working Americans when they bought out companies. Then they offshored those pensions to their own Cayman Islands bank accounts.

• Americans expect to work longer, retire later

  Mon Apr 30, 2012
  • Congress gets to retire at age 50 with a full retirement pension!

• As times change, so do attitudes about taking kids to work

  Thu Apr 26, 2012
  • People are so anti-family now that it could be very derogatory to show your children at work.

• Loophole lets big companies shirk income tax

  Mon Apr 9, 2012
  • In the 1980's the major tax burden was shifted from corporations and the wealthy (who paid 90% of all taxes back then) to the middle class (who paid 10% of all taxes).

• Higher taxes to cut deficit? No, thanks

  Tue Mar 20, 2012
  • After WWII, high tax rates on the wealthy paid off a debt at 109% of GDP. Reinstate those upper-income tax brackets!

• Investors buying homes by the dozen

  Fri Mar 2, 2012
  • The low prices reflect the true market value of homes and will drive down the comps, then the other home prices in the neighborhoods.

• Whole Foods up, Wal-Mart down in customer satisfaction survey

  Tue Feb 21, 2012
  • Wal-Mart would do better if it bought locally. No one wants to buy "Made In China" anymore with so many Americans out of work.