http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/09/a_moral_crisis Comments On: A Moral Crisis by Anthony Hecht en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Y.F.]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:48:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ecclesiastes 1:9-11]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:58:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Thucydides]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:53:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Westside forever]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:11:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by D. Rand]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:07:07 -0800 The Stranger What you get is what I call the "Hansen Economy", with dropping consumption, and dropping prices. I've come to enjoy not buying very much, and buying used instead of new, or at a heavy discount. If everyone did that we would have just about what we have now, a near collapse of the market economy.

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Posted by YRIHF]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:08 -0800 The Stranger
Government regulations are incredibly clunky. There needs to be strong self-interest among board members to make sure corporate management is serving the long-term needs of the corporation.
Posted by Fritz]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:44:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Vince]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:34:47 -0800 The Stranger
But will someone ask the Economist, why should we trust our banks NOW? And has anyone else had your employer bring in your companies 401K advisor in the past three months to try to calm everyone down. (ie to make sure we don't all start to say, fuck the 401K I'm putting my money into a savings account)

The real problem is all of these financial advisors only know how to say one thing and one thing only: "BUY BUY BUY!!! The market is going up? BUY!!! The market's tanking? It's an opportunity to BUY!! An astroid the size of Mars is heading towards Earth? Well, BUY BUY BUY!!!"

Seriously, anyone who listens to Suzie Orman or James Crammer on CNBC and can't see them as whores for Wall Street deserve all they have coming to them.
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:14:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by reverend dr dj riz]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:41:07 -0800 The Stranger "Nothing is new under the sun."-Sherlock Holmes quoting...some religious text.
Excellent post, Mr Hecht.
Posted by StudyInGreed]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:36:10 -0800 The Stranger