Monthly Archives: August 2003

State of the Economy

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Rob Schaap at Blogorrhoea pretty much sums up the latest economic news:

A blogorrhoeaic summary: Shrubya’s promised job splurge ain’t coming, rather direct investment is down, unemployment is up and wages are all but static in real terms. Excess capacity stalks the manufacturing sector and the information technology is having trouble growing demand – and we must doubt that clever marketers can entice consumers to ignore their mounting debt for much longer.

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Late Night Reading

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Idols of the Marketplace links toWhiskeybar and Talkleft on the upcoming ashcroft concert tour.
Scott Wickstein at White Rose has some examples of Big Brother hard at work.
BLAH3 hammers War on the Cheap and supports Al Franken’s use of Fair and Balanced. And from the other side Kim takes Fox to task as well.
There is a discussion of Afghani Snow Leopards from a Libertarian perspective at Samizdata and Catallarchy.
Will Wilkinson has some thoughts on the false alternative of a forced choice between intrinsicism and subjectivism.
Good Night!

Raining on the bush parade

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Moorish Girl says A Storm is Brewing. Check out this Washington Post article:

The new information indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their subordinates — in public and behind the scenes — made allegations depicting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in information upon which it had previously relied:

Yep, I think its brewing and can see the lightning on the horizon.