Proteccionism will hit MBA workforce

"The Open-Door Bailout by Thomas Friedman:

While I think President Obama has been doing his best to keep the worst protectionist impulses in Congress out of his stimulus plan, the U.S. Senate unfortunately voted on Feb. 6 to restrict banks and other financial institutions that receive taxpayer bailout money from hiring high-skilled immigrants on temporary work permits known as H-1B visas.

Rant of the Year (2)

Following the Rant of the Year,

Robert Gibbs vs. Rick Santelli



Rick Santelli Responds to Whitehouse Mouthpiece Robert Gibbs on CNBC's Kudlow:

"this is an unprecedented White House assault on a member of the media" — says Kudlow — "the worst press relations we've seen in a lifetime"



White House Press Secretary Defiles The Office of The President

Rant of the Year

Rick Santelli and the "Rant of the Year"

class struggle

Savers Are Britain’s New Underclass (Spectator):

The financial crisis, it would be easy to assume, ought to be springtime for revolutionary socialists. Instead, it has opened up a new crack in society. The real social and political battle in Britain is no longer between rich and poor, between flat cap and top hat; it is between financial roundheads and financial cavaliers. In the former camp we have savers, homeowners who have foregone holidays to reduce their mortgages, conservative businessmen, people who rent because they were unable or unwilling to borrow large sums at the height of the property boom. In the latter camp we have overmortgaged homeowners, buy-to-let investors, bankers who still have a job, estate agents, most large retailers, property developers and, it would seem, the Socialist Worker.

Spending ourselves rich

Fred Thompson

Rent seeking

Slate Magazine

a few demands

Via Reason,

Dude where’s my bailout?

Where's my bailout?