January 2012
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety...”
– Benjamin Franklin
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Chase Actually Gave Me a Deal
A few weeks ago I got junkmail from Chase. The offer was $125 for opening a checking account. I read the fine print, and realized that they were actually offering me a 6 month CD at a 17% interest rate. I wasn’t sure that it’d actually work—because Chase is always trying to screw me—but I now have the $125 in my account, so it seems like they are following the rules that...
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June 2011
8 posts
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“Revolutions are generally triggered off by deficiency of money; by preventing...”
– Heinrich Heine 1829 or 1830, quoted in Niall Ferguson’s ‘House of Rothschild’. If clever people have understood these things—lack of money causing revolution, good credit as requirement for waging war or avoiding revolution, and organized religion supported because its...
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Former NSA Official Thomas A. Drake Gets Plea Deal
“The deal represented the almost complete collapse of the government’s effort to make an example of Mr. Drake…”
From the New York Times, the New Yorker wrote about the case a few weeks ago and made the government sound terrible.
May 2011
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“For human beings, it is much easier to suffer the slings and arrows of...”
– The WSJ tackles the approaching apocalypse.