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POPSWhy Would Warren Buffett Stoop So Low?
The market still works! With all due respect to Buffett, nobody has yet made a compelling case to me that there is, in fact, a crisis that extends much beyond overleveraged banks with bad business practices. There's a simple fact lost among all of this fearmongering and jawboning about how bad things could get if the government doesn't throw $700 billion (or more) at failing financial institutions. The stock and vulture-capital markets are still generally working, in spite of the cries from politicians and failing speculators to the contrary. The market also has a really good mechanism to help struggling financial companies get money. It's called "price," and it's still functioning. You can see it in action by looking at the one-year CD rates that various banks are offering to entice people to deposit money with them. When the people lobbying the hardest for a bailout are those who stand to benefit from it, you have to ask whether their motives are altruistic or self-serving.
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POPSCSPAN Video Exposes Democrat Support of Sub Prime Mess I just love how the 'mainstream' media never once mentions any of these hearings when discussing how we got in this mess in the first place. After all, don't they have producers, researchers, etc. whose job it is to find this information. The thing is, they don't want this information reported on because it does not fit in their own narrow minded world view of 'blame the Republicans and George W. Bush for everything" model.
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POPSIs Wordpress Doomed? Google buys self-hosted blogging software company. Yet again, Google buys another software suite in order to compete in a market that doesn't directly involve search engines or search related tools. I haven't quite made up my mind on whether this is good news or bad news. On one hand, more competition in the self-hosted blog software market is always a good thing and can only help make the tools we use better through that competition. On the other hand, while I realize that there is money to be made in this deal, doesn't anyone else think that Google is getting close to over-diversification with all their non search engine related purchases over the past several years?
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POPSEncourage and Improve Comments in your Wordpress Blog This wordpress plugin encourages people to comment on your wordpress blog. This plugin also encourages repeat visitors to your blog. When your visitors comment more often, they receive more backlinks, your visitors also gain another outlet for their RSS feed.
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POPSExcellent list of open-source alternatives to commercial programs I've used both the commercial and open-source programs listed on this page and have to agree with most of the choices listed here. If you can't find what you need from this list, it should at least provide a good starting point for beginning to explore the open-source and free software alternatives that are out there.
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