Featured Diary: USA vs. Canada, Banking Regulation Edition

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Business on Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 09:04:38 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

The Canadian banking system survived the recent worldwide slowdown without a single bank failure. So what can the United States learn from Canada about sound banking?

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Featured Diary: Traditional Debt Management Issues Should Be Important Public Policy Concern

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Politics on Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 11:22:00 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Rogoff and Reinhart examine the effect of public debt on economic growth: "Across both advanced countries and emerging markets, high debt/GDP levels (90 percent and above) are associated with notably lower growth outcomes. In addition, for emerging markets, there appears to be a more stringent threshold for total external debt/GDP (60 percent), that is also associated with adverse outcomes for growth. Seldom do countries simply "grow" their way out of deep debt burdens."

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100 Best films of the decade

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Etcetera on Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 07:58:32 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Flicks, baby! The Oughts are almost over, which means it is time to make long boring lists of pop cultural crap produced during the last ten years. Today's list is The 100 Best Films of the Decade, selected by the Times Online.

What films are on your list?

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Featured Diary: Behold, a door will be opened

Steve Urkel.

Posted to SciTech on Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 08:42:32 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

"Out of this door might come something..."- Sergio Bertolucci, director for research and scientific computing at CERN, explaining what will happen when the Large Hadron Collider is activated.

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The 20-oughts top 20

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Music on Thu Oct 08, 2009 at 09:20:25 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Tunes, baby! The Oughts are almost over, which means it is time to make long boring lists of pop cultural crap produced during the last decade. Today's list is The 200 Best Albums of the 2000's, as chosen by Pitchfork magazine.  

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Featured Diary: Health Care Reform, American Style

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Politics on Wed Aug 19, 2009 at 09:07:34 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

The CEO of Whole Foods lays out the standard slate of non-Communist health care reforms:

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Featured Diary: No Free Speech in the Netherlands

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Legal on Wed Jan 21, 2009 at 09:16:12 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Dutch politician to be charged with "inciting hatred and discrimination" for criticizing Islam.

As you may recall, there is a push to impose this sort of speech restriction on all EU member states.

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Featured Diary: And the morning lasted all day. All day.

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Etcetera on Sun Dec 14, 2008 at 03:29:50 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

In 1955, Canadian uranium magnate Joseph Hirshorn commissioned Philip Johnson to design a plan for an entire town in Ontario, Canada...Hirshhorn requested "the most beautiful small town in the world."

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Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Religion on Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 08:30:15 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Thanksgiving!!!

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None Hit Blunders

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Music on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:36:46 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Those bands that never quite took off.

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Baseball - great American pastime, or Communist plot?

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Sport on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 05:27:29 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

The crack of the bat. The smell of the balls. The grass.

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What does the 2nd Amendment really mean?

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Legal on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 06:01:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

"I'll sleep better knowing my good friend is by my side to protect me."

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