Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

So very ready.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Republicans in disarray!

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

I really should read my own blog.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

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Maybe Rand Paul is right about the Federal Reserve (commenter liberal via Disequilibria, which excerpts this article but strangely links to a different story):

The minutes from that same gathering of the powerful Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, are made available to the public — but only after a three-week lag. So Meyer’s clients were provided with a glimpse into what the Fed was thinking well ahead of other investors.

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A respected economist, Meyer charges clients around $75,000 for his product, which includes a popular forecasting service. He frequently shares his research with reporters, though he kept this note out of the public eye. Reuters obtained a copy from a market source. Meyer declined to comment for this story, as did the Federal Reserve.

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    beltane

    Is Meyer a member of the FOMC? I suppose conflict-of-interest concerns don’t apply to the master of the universe class.

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    saucy

    This is bad behavior on someone’s part, but no, it doesn’t mean Rand Paul’s conspiracy theories are correct.

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    jwb

    @beltane: What conflict of interest? I thought it was common wisdom that what’s good for the master of the universe class is good for the country.

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    beltane

    @jwb: Yes, yes, I forgot about the altruism that is required of the peasant class. We should celebrate the productivity and well-earned success of the nobility. I would appreciate it though, if they rode around on horseback and dressed a little more elegantly. Today’s elite are a bunch of slobs with no equestrian skills.

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    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @beltane:

    Is Meyer a member of the FOMC?

    No. He’s a former Fed governor, but not currently a Fed employee of any sort.

    I suppose conflict-of-interest concerns don’t apply to the master of the universe class.

    This isn’t a conflict of interest. No current employee of the Fed stands to gain from these leaks. It’s more a matter that current Fed employees don’t know how to keep their mouths shut, combined with the fact that the Fed gathers a lot of its information by asking people in private banking for information about what they see in the markets, including proprietary data. In exchange, they talk about the Fed.

    I don’t think that there’s any way to avoid this. Instead, I’m in favor of a lot more transparency on the part of the Fed.

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