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mm257: The R-Word – Not that racy television show…
MUDGE’S Musings On more and more minds, and lips, lately is that dreaded R-Word, recession. First some news that we won’t have to work too awfully hard to relate to the topic at hand. 1. A critical...
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mm258: It’s the economy, stupid!
MUDGE’S Musings Can’t escape it. Oil at $100 per barrel. And planted well over $3 per gallon at the pump. Stock market with more bad news than good. Another bank lost $billions last quarter, due to the...
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mm331: Obama at Cooper Union: Lincoln for our times?
MUDGE’s Musings He could have spoken anywhere; that’s what the communications age is all about. Perhaps he should have spoken in Pennsylvania; after all, its April 22nd primary represents the next...
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mm335: Are you prepared for interesting times?
MUDGE’s Musings I’d always heard it was a Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Wikipedia.org is not so sure. Notwithstanding the source, I think we’re there. We’ve written increasingly...
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mm337: Dare we trust those who messed up to fix it?
MUDGE’s Musings I can’t help it — our turbulent economic news continues to cause concern. And, as we’ve pointed out, it’s increasingly top of mind most everywhere. As a topic, it has appeared here with...
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mm347: It’s official, we’re depressed — er, recessed
MUDGE’s Musings Paul Krugman has appeared in this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere© quite frequently; he’s an economist, and an insightful writer, and a lot of news lately has been about our economy, and...
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mm381: Crime’s up. Economy’s down. Next question?
MUDGE’s Musings Driving earlier this evening to pick up take out for dinner, found myself listening to radio news. Never do that, if I can help it. But this story sprang out at me. It’s a crime story....
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mm403: Blast from the Past! No. 26
MUDGE’s Musings We embark this weekend on a business trip to a conference in Boston. As conferences usually take up a great deal of uptime, without the downtime associated with a normal schedule, we...
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mm428: Upbeat words from the Fed
© Ketian Chen | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings We begin this Independence Day celebration in the U.S. with a rather gloomy attitude. We’re still losing good men and women to the misguided and...
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mm433: McCain’s ultimate vulnerability: the economy
From Daniel Kurtzman, About.com MUDGE’s Musings We’ve spent the past month or so watching the candidates come off their primary paces, attempting to rejigger their respective approaches to the general...
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mm446: Clueless in America, and Michael too
From Daniel Kurtzman, About.com MUDGE’s Musings Frank Rich of the NYTimes eviscerated John McCain over both his supposed area of expertise, military affairs, as well as Sen. McCain’s admitted area of...
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mm454: It’s going to take a liberal quantity of BOLD
© Michaeljung | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings We observe the first anniversary of the tragic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis (August 1, 2007) with some sadness, and furious anger. Sadness...
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mm477: A family affair, with granddog
© D | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings As I begin it’s near the nominal end of a summer Saturday; normally I might have had the opportunity to create some kind of post much earlier, but today was not...
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mm479: Change Before It’s Too Late
© Debra Saucedo | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings Confession: Yr (justifiably) humble svt has been watching these past couple of months of virulent right wing zingers aimed at Barack Obama, that are...
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mm506: What to read when you’re not reading me
© Bruno1998 | Dreamstime.com Away (from blogging — the writing, not the reading) and the economy, and especially the stock markets, continues in free fall. Everyone is on edge, if not downright...
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