Credit unions are a better deal for most people than banks are

So says this article from Business Insider. I agree. But then I thought so before the Great Recession hit.

Confirming the obvious

After a decade long (and counting) recession a US Census Bureau study finds that Michigan is now much poorer.

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Census data show Michigan households got hit the hardest by the current recession. No shit. Tell us something  we don't know,  lamestream corporate media.

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Screw white working-class voters! - The American Prospect (Alexandra Gutierrez)

The Dems have had it with us! We don't vote for them reliably enough and we're just plain stupid to boot.

"Eighteen months of severe recession have brought to the surface old truths that many chose to forget when times seemed to be good." - Front Porch Republic (Allan Carlson)

"The business cycle has not been eliminated; finance capitalism is by its nature unstable; politically-connected corporations commonly escape market discipline; and there is nothing conservative about the 'creative destruction' of a capitalist economy."

“People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring.” - The New Yorker (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Suspended Animation may be possible soon. - Popular Science

Police may be closing in on Colton Harris-Moore - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Yeah sure. How many times have we heard that before? Anyhow, they'd better capture him soon or he's gonna become a folk hero to people or something. Not the people who's homes he's burglarized over the years though.

An examination of American conspiracy theorists. - Center For A Stateless Society (Kevin Carson)
"In short, both the Baptists and people like Marshall and Olbermann — like conspiracy nuts — attempt to impose meaning on reality by reading a coherent narrative into random and unrelated events."

Banksters & politicians continue to ruin the American economy. - Taki's Magazine (Paul Craig Roberts)

The life & death of the Rolodex - Gizmodo (Anna Grossman)

Some history mixed with nostalgia an obsolete technology.