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Over the weekend I wrote an 800 word article seriously discussing the upcoming fiscal cliff, then deleted it. Instead, I think we could all use some terrible Monday morning MSPaint art. Here is said article, in picture form, with a few highlights from an unreleased version of the Thelma and

As election day nears, the comments get better. I’m not sure what I am going to use as a source once the election has been decided. I’ve gotten spoiled the last few months and my cup of LOLs has runneth over.  And, this series has actually been

Student loan debt is all over the news these days. Whether it’s President Obama and Congress battling it out over interest student loan rates, references of the issue as ‘crisis‘ or ‘bubble‘, or repetition of some of the chilling facts, it’s hard to miss. For example, the

One of my hobbies (this is beyond a guilty pleasure) is reading the comments section on just about anything online. News sites are a great source for comments, but to comment at the end of an article—especially on any of the big news sites—often requires some sort

In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, gives readers his take on the euro crisis. Basically, he argues at the European Central Bank and Germany will, in the end, do whatever is necessary to save the euro—at