Tag: election
Sorting out Politifacts, Politifiction and a Winner
While it seems the political ads have been going on forever with the election is less than a month away. The attacks, charges & counter charges and down right lies are going to get increasingly desperate over the remaining days. Trust me; living in a battleground state isn’t really much fun. So where does someone […]
Posted: October 11th, 2008 under General.
Tags: election, facts, fiction, mccain, obama, politics, president
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2008 – Predictive Market
From time to time there have been lot’s of discussions on predictive markets. Of course the real fun of such markets is in politics. Well Slate has really stepped up this time. They are not just dealing with 1 market but combined 4 into a composite measure. Some much for who has the most money, […]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under General.
Tags: analysis, election
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On Getting Old – Part Deux
I guess Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke read only part of my blog entry. He followed rule #1 but not #2 i.e throw out nonessential numbers and keep only cheerful friends! Well, in his testimony yesterday to Congress he certainly “threw out” some numbers “US government may face a “fiscal crisis” in the coming […]
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under General.
Tags: aging, blog_entry, election, medicare, social-security, us-government
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