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DRESSED in skinny jeans and trendy Ugg boots, pretty Bibi Aisha strolls
purposefully through New York's bustling streets.
Occasionally she stops to glance in shop windows like any other
fashion-conscious young woman.
Few passers-by could imagine the incredible journey Bibi has endured to enjoy
such basic Western freedoms — or the enormous courage it takes to hold her
head up high.
Looking closer, they might just see the edge of the prosthetic nose she is
forced to wear to disguise her disfigured features.
Last August, her face shocked the world when it was unveiled on Time
magazine's award-winning front cover, along with the headline: What Happens
If We Leave Afghanistan.
A gaping fleshy hole was all that remained of her nose after it was hacked
off on orders from the Taliban when Bibi fled an arranged marriage and
abusive in-laws.
She also had her ears sliced off as part of the punishment.
Now the moving Time magazine cover has won the coveted World Press Photo of
the Year.
Bibi, 20, was eventually offered sanctuary in America by the charity Women For
Afghan Women. But the ghosts of the past are never far away.
Recalling the moment when her brutal attackers caught up with her, Bibi says:
"When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out. Then, in the middle of
the night I felt like there was cold water in my nose.
"I opened my eyes and couldn't even see because of all the blood."
Bibi, an illiterate young woman from a village in the southern Afghanistan
province of Uruzgan, has been fitted with the prosthetic nose and her beauty
has been restored.
But her confidence is slower to return and she is understandably wary of the
world's media spotlight.
However, highlighting her story and similar abuses suffered by other Afghan
women is important to Bibi and her supporters.
Her nightmare began when she was handed over in marriage by her father to a
large family of Taliban sympathisers when she was just 13.
Bibi says: "I went to live with them and became a prisoner."
She still finds parts of her ordeal difficult to re-live and so allows
Professor Esther Hyneman, one of her carers at Women For Afghan Women, to
take up the story.
Professor Hyneman says: "Bibi was given away in marriage as compensation for a
tribal murder committed by one of her family members.
"Property must be handed over to the offended family and girls are considered
to be property.
"Bibi was treated badly by the family, who were known Taliban sympathisers.
She was beaten and forced to sleep with animals in a shed."
Bibi endured her fate silently for four years but one day she could take no
more and fled to Kandahar, where suspicious police initially detained her
until it could be proven she was neither "loose" or a criminal.
They then released her back to her father, who coldly took her back to her
violent husband and in-laws.
Bibi had humiliated them and now she was in grave danger.
In August 2009, a Taliban mullah gave his verdict. Bibi would be gravely
injured in a way that would serve as a harsh reminder to any other women who
might be considering a similar dash for freedom.
In Pashtun culture, a husband who has been shamed by his wife is said to have
"lost his nose".
From the husband's point of view, he would have been punishing Bibi in kind.
Her father-in-law held a gun to her head and her brother-in-law held her down
while her husband, a Taliban fighter, sliced through his wife's flesh before
dragging her to a mountainside to die.
But somehow Bibi's extraordinary spirit helped her to survive.
Professor Hyneman says: "She is strong and intelligent and determined. When
she came to, she was bleeding heavily but managed to drag herself back to
her village.
"This time, her father took her to a US field hospital where she was taken
care of for two and a half months before being flown to Kabul.
"Once there, Bibi moved into our shelter for abused women. At that stage the
affects of the abuse she had suffered were quite obvious and she was
extremely volatile."
Bibi spent nine months at the shelter that offers a safe haven for victims of
rape, forced marriage and extreme domestic violence.
Professor Hyneman says: "Some of the girls we are seeing are as young as 12
and have been scalded with boiling water and badly maimed.
"Bibi's situation highlights the situation other women will fall into if the
Taliban regain control."
According to Professor Hyneman, a former English academic who travels to
Afghanistan regularly, there is a real danger of the Taliban regaining a
She says: "The Taliban want to control Afghanistan. They are not interested in
a role in Government. If they return to power, extremist groups will
flourish again.
"There must be troops in Afghanistan. They are sometimes accused of being a
force of invasion but they are trying to protect the country from the
invasion of the Taliban from Pakistan.
"At Women For Afghan Women, we are certainly not warmongers but negotiating
with the Taliban is not the road to peace.
"For the sake of Bibi and all women like her, we need to maintain troops
and increase development aid to focus on education for girls and boys and
create employment."
Paid work is something Bibi could only have dreamed of in her native village,
but now she delights in making the beaded jewellery she hopes will earn her
a living.
She is also learning English to prepare her for further education. Plans for
further skin grafting operations have been put on hold to allow her time to
adjust to her new life.
Professor Hyneman says: "She has post-traumatic stress disorder. It can mean
panic attacks, depression and terrible nightmares.
"Initially, when she came to the US in August last year, she was taken to a
specialist hospital in Los Angeles, but the transition was difficult and she
"We put the surgery on hold to bring her to New York where she is being cared
for by therapists and doctors.
"She lives in an apartment with roommates and is starting to adjust."
As well as making jewellery, Bibi also seeks solace in her favourite Pashto
music on YouTube.
Professor Hyneman says: "She is extremely intelligent and picks up and
understands everything despite the language barrier.
"She quickly learned to dress like an American in jeans and shirts but she
hasn't taken to American TV or food. Music is definitely what makes her
The recent news that Bibi's father-in-law Haji Suleiman, 45, has been arrested
by Afghan police also delighted her.
The provincial police chief said in his verdict: "Suleiman pointed a gun at
her head while the other men, his sons, sliced off her nose."
"Suleiman then took her amputated nose and proudly showed it off around the
Now incarcerated in Uruzgan's tough Tirin Kot jail, Suleiman gives varying
accounts of his whereabouts on the night Bibi was maimed.
And the Taliban's role in the act of revenge remains unclear.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission ruled it was a straightforward
case of domestic violence but Bibi and her carers think differently.
Either way, Suleiman's arrest is a step forward in a country where villagers
are allowed to impose severe punishments such as flogging or stoning under
sharia law, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran and the teachings of
Mohammed There is no sharia law provision, however, for cutting off the
nose and ears of a runaway child bride.
And for Bibi, there is no easy road to recovery. But with the world willing
her on, she hopes to one day lead a normal life without panic attacks, have
surgery to rebuild her face — and win justice against the butchers who left
her for dead.
To contribute to Bibi's ongoing care, visit her page on the charity website womenforafghanwomen.org.


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To catch that feeling
when first aware
the fleeting essence of
myself is without safety
nowhere can I fall prostrate
and become unstitched
without fear of losing
bits and pieces of me
though...in slow motion waves
I unravel anyway
one by one
they fall away......
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To reveal your true, beautiful essence.
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Countrywide Exits the Stage
Angelo Mozilo - co-founder, chairman and CEO of Countrywide Home Loans, once a powerhouse in mortgage banking and the world's largest mortgage servicer - is leaving the playing field.
Last month, ending an era, Mr. Mozilo stepped down in the wake of Bank of America's $2.5 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial Corp., a company that at one time was worth $25 billion on paper. Countrywide isn't the first big servicer to disappear from the stage - names like Lomas and GE Mortgage ring a bell - but it's fall from grace was dramatic.
He launched CFC as a non-bank 39 years ago at the kitchen table of a Manhattan apartment owned by his late friend and former boss, David Loeb. Mr. Mozilo started in the mortgage business when he was 14 years old, serving as a "runner" for a loan company in Midtown Manhattan.
For most of those 39 years this Bronx native was an admired and feared competitor and served, in some respects, as a spokesman for the industry, appearing frequently on CNBC to talk about the mortgage business and then, as CFC's fortunes crumbled, his own company.
Over the past year his reputation has been hammered in columns and blogs for selling $400 million worth of stock as CFC's share price crumbled from $40 to $4.
Even though the company is now the property of Bank of America, it is still the subject of multiple state probes for both its lending and foreclosure practices. CFC has been vilified by consumer activists for being a "predatory" subprime lender, a business it avoided for most of its history.
I first met Mr. Mozilo 20 years ago. It's hard to put an exact date on it, though I do remember the first time he came to my Washington office on G Street, three blocks from the White House.
He was dressed in a dark gray suit, and was wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and a red tie. It was the kind of shirt that investment bankers wore when they appeared on CNBC to discuss the vicissitudes of the stock market.
Later on I learned that Angelo was none too fond of investment bankers, though he did like the shirts they wore. We got to know each other a bit because of a book I co-wrote about the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans."
(He is now a central character in a new book I have coming out called "Chain of Blame, How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis.") He had read "Inside Job," admiring its detail and its financial morality tale - a story about so-called honest businesspeople who took advantage of newly passed laws that allowed them to loot federally chartered S&Ls (thrifts).
He was genuinely appalled by the audacity of both legitimate businessmen (real estate developers mostly) and con artists who were allowed to own S&Ls and treat them like their own personal piggybanks.
The S&L crisis led to the indictment of hundreds of men (and a handful of women). Dozens went to prison. Others walked. In the wake of the S&L mess CFC flourished.
With all those S&Ls going bust, Countrywide cleaned up by using loan brokers to produce loans for it. It became the biggest lender in the land, bar none. And now it is no more, swallowed up by BoA.
Mr. Mozilo has retired.
It's the end of an epoch. Whatever comes next, he will not be part of it. He is 69 years old. (For more of Paul's take on the blockbuster Bank of America/Countrywide merger, see page 5). (c) 2008 Mortgage Servicing News and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.mortgageservicingnews.com/ http://www.sourcemedia.com/


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- - Where are the old P30 archives? (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/p30/55386-where-old-p30-archives.html)
Where are the old P30 archives?
There was a very active P30 community on Sailnet for several years, if not longer. Messages could be accessed on a bulletin board like this one and they could be sent to your email address. As far as I know, Sailnet took down the email feature a year or so ago and I lost track. Does anyone know if the archives still exist somewhere? There were thousands of postings on a wide variety of P30 issues and ideas. It would be a shame if they were lost.
I sent the same request to Sailnet a week or two ago and did not receive a reply.
TTBOMK they're gone. SN management may have them on disk, somewhere, but the archives, the server they were on, the software that organized/displayed them: All long gone.
Yeah, it annoyed me mightily when they did that. To add insult-to-injury: Absolutely no notice whatsoever. I almost started-up a new P30 mailing list on my own (actually have the software running and ready-to-go), when I found that everybody had already pretty-much migrated over to the Pearson mailing list on Yahoo!.
That was a very valuable P30 resource. Now gone.
P30 list archives
The Sailnet P30 list archive is available here. You can also get to it using the main navigation: Resources>Email List Archives. I share your sentiment -- it's a terrific resource -- too bad the archives are 'read only'.
Hmmm... I bet I know somebody that might be willing. If there's interest, I'll ask.
wonder what it would take to create the archive-users to support the archived forums, and migrate the data to the new system?
Yahoo P30 board is a mess
I looked at the Yahoo Pearson 30 board. The one I found appears to be completely over-run by spam for the last year or so. Certainly not something I would want to automatically send to my email. It appears to have driven most legitimate users away. Too bad.
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On Friday 27th June The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign held and supported patient and professionals events in Cambridge and Southampton.
The charity and the Wessex Regional Muscle and Nerve service held a joint information day for individuals and families living with neuromuscular conditions in Southampton. The event was well attended with roughly 85 participants who received presentations from dietitians, neuromuscular consultants, as well as information on mobility aids and an update from the charity on advocacy support and the information service.
The feedback from those who attended was very positive and people have asked for more events of this type in the future.
At the same time, in Cambridge, the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign joined health professionals with a neuromuscular interest from across the East of England for the third annual Neuromuscular Study Day.
The charity provided an update on the latest national and East of England activity in the Bridging the Gap project, outlining ways in which the charity is able to support professionals, patients and their families through:
• upskilling events and information days
• the new online map of services
• emergency care plans
• online GP training module.
Professionals, including consultants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, care advisors and the new nurse specialist who will start in a few weeks, also heard updates on:
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• orthotics
• congenital myasthenic syndromes and myasthenia gravis
• the latest clinical trial developments across the country
Neuromuscular Outreach Manager Bobby Ancil said:
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BALTIMORE – Once again, the Angels' hitters left the pitchers no margin for error.
The Angels lost, 3-2, to the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night, wasting a strong performance by Jason Vargas and some jaw-dropping defense on their way to their fourth straight defeat.
The Orioles' winning rally in the seventh was built on three singles that didn't even leave the infield grass, hit too softly or too perfectly placed for the Angels to make a play. Scott Downs then surrendered a tie-breaking, two-out, two-run single to Nick Markakis.
Rather than lament the misfortune of that inning, Manager Mike Scioscia was frustrated that the Angels offense was stifled so much that it mattered.
"If you are not doing things at a high enough level on the field," Scioscia said, "then those things will have the opportunity to take the game away from you, and it did tonight."
Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez held the Angels to Mike Trout's solo homer through eight innings. They got one run in the ninth, on an Albert Pujols RBI single, but it wasn't enough. Pujols' hit was the Angels' first with a runner in scoring position in the two games in Baltimore.
"We couldn't get that key hit," Trout said. "We were fighting in the ninth, but we have to get that fight in the earlier innings."
What the Angels did in the batter's box – or didn't do, to be specific – overshadowed a night that they did so much else right. Vargas had allowed only one run in 113 pitches when Scioscia handed the ball to Downs in the seventh.
The Angels defense turned in several spectacular plays, none better than center fielder Peter Bourjos' home-run saving catch in the first inning.
The spectacular grab saved Vargas two runs, and the defense continued to help him sail into the late innings, but he ended up with a loss because the offense couldn't produce.
"We didn't do enough things offensively to pressure them," Scioscia said. "Jason pitched with his back against the wall the entire game."
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Most new investors typically tend to focus on the companies with the highest dividend yields. I am often being asked why I never write about companies such as Hatteras Financial (HTS) or American Agency (AGNC), each of which yields 16% and 19% respectively. While some of my holdings are higher yielding companies, I typically tend to invest in stocks with strong competitive advantages, which have achieved a balance between the need to finance their growth and the need to pay their shareholders.
After looking at my portfolio, I have been able to identify three types of dividend stocks.
The first type is high yield stocks with low to no dividend growth.
Realty Income (O) (analysis)
Enbridge Energy Partners (EEP)
Kinder Morgan Partner (KMP) (analysis)
Consolidated Edison (ED) (analysis)
It is important not to fall in the trap of excessive high yields, caused by the market's perceptions that the dividend is in peril. Recent examples of this included some of the financial companies such as Bank of America (BAC). While current dividend income is important, these stocks would produce little in capital gains over time.
The second type is low yielding stocks with a high dividend growth rate.
Wal-Mart (WMT) (analysis)
Aflac (AFL) (analysis)
Colgate Palmolive (CL) (analysis)
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) (analysis)
Family Dollar (FDO) (analysis)
One of the issues with this type of strategy is that it might take a longer time to achieve a decent yield on cost on your investment. It is difficult to achieve a double digit dividend growth rate forever. Once you achieve an adequate yield on cost on your investment, it might slow down dividend increases. The positive side of this strategy is that many of the best dividend growth stocks such as Wal-Mart (WMT) or McDonald's (MCD) never really yielded more than 2%-3% when they first joined the Dividend Achievers index. The main positive of this strategy is the possibility of achieving strong capital gains.
The third type is represented by companies with an average yield and an average dividend growth. Some investors call this the sweet spot of dividend investing.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) (analysis)
Procter & Gamble (PG) (analysis)
Clorox (CLX) (analysis)
Pepsi Co (PEP) (analysis)
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There is a common misconception that buying the stocks in the middle, would produce average returns. Actually finding stocks with average market yields, which also produce a good dividend growth could produce not only exceptional yield on cost faster, but also capital gains as well.
At the end of the day successful dividend investing is much more than finding the highest yielding stocks. It is more about finding the stocks with sustainable competitive advantages which allow them to enjoy strong earnings growth, which would be the foundation of sustainable dividend growth. A company like Procter & Gamble (PG) which yields almost 3% today butraises dividends at 10% annually would double your yield on cost in 7 years to 6%. A company like Con Edison (ED) would likely yield around 6% on cost in 7 years. The main difference would be capital gains – Procter & Gamble (PG) would likely still yield 3%, while Con Edison (ED) would likely yield 6%. Thus the investor in Procter & Gamble would have most likely doubled their money in less than a decade, while also enjoying a rising stream of dividend income.
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Martin has been the receivers coach at Kentucky the past two seasons. He also served as the school's passing-game coordinator last season and is considered one of the nation's best recruiters.
A USC spokesman declined to confirm Martin's hiring, noting that the school had yet to officially announce any recent additions. (A high-ranking USC football official confirmed the reported but still unofficial hirings of linebackers coach Scottie Hazelton and secondary coach Marvin Sanders.) USC coach Lane Kiffin was not immediately available for comment.
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The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) has pursued an almost obsessive basement level interest rate policy in recent years (2008 to the present) as a calculated strategy to keep the fragile economic recovery for aborting. The rationale for this strategy, beyond its theoretical underpinnings, is the idea that quantitative easing (easy money) provides the motivation for business firms to investment. However, bankers are unwilling to be seduced by the lure of low interest rates. They are too clever to bite the bait. Yet, the country is awash with money and the nation's banks collectively are curiously in possession of approximately $1.6 trillion in cash (excess reserves) and have been diligently intransigent in their reluctance to transfer this money to the business and household sectors of the economy. The problem the Fed faces is its goal, economic growth, which is divergent from the typical business firm's goal, which is to maximize profits for stockholders (owners). Ironically, in the grand scheme of things, these two goals--the Fed's pro-growth goal and the business pro-profit goals--are interrelated for low interest rates through different channels can lead to investment, profits, and economic growth.
The problem with low interest rates, apart from liquidity trap--a situation where the short-term nominal interest is so low (zero) that increasing the money supply has no effect on output and prices --is that they have inherently perverse properties. In normal times, banks want to make loans. Low interest rates underestimate the risks of loans in this environment. Like the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) interest rate issue, Barclays and other banks manipulated interest rates and kept them low. These low rates suggested that the institutions were in better shape than they really were: in other words, the low rates understated the true risk profile of banks. This is, of course, illegal and Barclay was fined $453 million for falsifying Libor rates. It seems Tim Geithner, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, knew about this when he led the NY Fed. In 2008, Geithner e-mailed Mr. Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor about this problem. However, he did not follow through with his concerns. In other words, he did nothing to stop it.
As far back as 2005, a number of banks around the world submitted falsified data to Libor to keep their borrowing rates from each other low. Libor is a crucial rate in finance used to set the rates on students' loans, credit cards, and corporate debt. The artificially low interest rates enabled banks to hide their true financial problems. This practice led to the subprime mortgage debacle for subprime mortgage lenders used Libor index to link adjustable rate mortgages since they were very rosy. Many big banks that submitted interest rates to Libor, also received TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) bailout money: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and HSBC. In a way, for what they did Barclays got $8.5 billion from TARP, and Citigroup got $45 billion they are getting off easy. Remember Barclays' fine for submitting false documents was $453 million by the U.S. and British regulators. On the other hand , Barclays got a whopping $8.5 billion in TARP bailout money from taxpayers. Gee, what a deal. Bank commits a crime and gets fined $453 million but gets $85 billion bailout money for a financial crisis it participated in making. You defraud your local bank you go to jail; you get behind in your mortgage payments, the bank forecloses on you. But if you are too big to fail bank, you get billions in TARP bailout money.
The chutzpah of banks, not just TARP and Libor, to take your money (deposits), give you virtually nothing for the privilege of safeguarding it (with FDIC guarantees), and then they turn around and make loans at much higher rates of interest. They might take your money and make you pay a fee if your balance falls below a predetermined level, ratchet up the interest on credit for late payment, and foreclose on your mortgage. More remarkable is the fact that banks have a source of funds, i.e. the Fed. They have access to the discount window where they can borrow money for 0.25 percent interest from Fed and use this money to buy Treasury bills that yield 3 percent interest. For doing nothing, banks make a 2.75 percent spread per swap. For example, on say $1 trillion, they stand to make $25 billion. How to explain this aberration? It is the result of the clash between the profit goals of business and the economic goal of the Fed.
For a very vocal group embedded in half of the country's electorate are voters for whom the expression "stimulus" is a very abhorrently dirty word and its advocates are seen as spawns of Marx. In this alternate reality, Ann Rand is extant, tax cuts reign supreme, and austerity speaks to economic recovery. Never mind the historical failure of austerity measures promoted by the IMF, which forced belt-tightening structural adjustment programs (SAPs) on floundering African countries; add the glaring failure of austerity in Greece, Spain, and the U.K. Yet, despite this, stubborn, diehard, proponents of austerity won't go away. They--ECB, WB, IMF--wield the enormous power of the purse with which they can force desperately overleveraged countries to genuflect to their demands in order to receive bailout moneys. Here at home, Sheriff John Rutherford was told by the Mayor of Jacksonville Florida to find more budget cuts. The additional cuts mean 95 positions are on the cutting block, including cuts to the Community Transition Center in downtown Jacksonville. The 300-bed Center serves as an alternate holding facility for criminals near the end of their sentence. He also wishes to save officers employed and programs like the Community Service Officers (support in crime prevention, investigation, and responses where full police powers are unnecessary and assists police officers in upholding law and order) and the Matrix House drug rehab facility funded within JSO. The Sheriff of Jacksonville is trying to restore money lost to budget cuts so as not to furlough some of his police officers. He believes that reducing the number of police officers on the streets will increase crimes.
Allow me indulge a brief philosophical rant. It seems to me ideologues appear incapable of accepting facts that conflict with their predetermined views of the world, so given that mindset, ideology trumps evidence, even when such evidence presented on a platter is irrefutable. You don't have to go far to appreciate the import of this observation: global warming (climate change) is a hoax, no matter evidence to the contrary; Obama is a Kenyan, who cares what his long-form certificate of live birth indicates; the economy is worse, i.e. not getting better even when the data shows the economy added jobs steadily; tax increases are bad in spite of the fact that higher marginal tax rates in the neighborhood of 90 percent have been consistent with high economic performance in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Or consider the ideological positions staked out by democrats and republicans. Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts except for the top 1 percent of taxpayers; republicans want to extend these cuts for everyone. However, the Obama payroll tax cuts, mind you, will not be extended for workers, even by congressmen who signed the Norquist no-tax-hike pledge. Thus, the payroll tax goes up. Why? The payroll tax cuts are viewed as part of the stimulus, while the Bush tax cuts are not. This is clear from the Senate bill S.3413 Hatch-McConnell "Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2012." A selected entry from the Senate bill is quoted here. Note the litany of tax cuts that will be extended and not extended, in particular the payroll tax cut. "S. 3413 would extend the 2001 and 2003 tax relief that is set to expire on January 1, 2013 for one year through December 31, 2013, including a straight extension of the expiring individual tax rates, family tax relief, death tax relief, and a patch to stop the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) from hitting millions of American middle-class families in 2012 and 2013. The AMT patch in the amendment is effective for tax year 2012 and 2013, since the patch has already expired at the end of 2011 . . . There is no extension of the payroll tax cut in the amendment." Well, it is hard to fathom how such ideological contradictions inhabit the same space simultaneously.
The country is well served when researchers and political constituents avoid ideology and strive for eclecticism, which allows one to be open minded to what works from the broad menu of economic thinking out there. One line of thinking makes the case for tax cuts and/or government expenditure increases to stimulate demand--hence, stimulus spending. Another point of view posits that the evil culprit is the looming deficit, which needs to be brought under control. To achieve control of the deficit, government spending must be cut. In this instance, the catalyst to economic recovery is the restoration of business confidence. We are looking at two diametrically polar views of what to do about a recession using the same instrument, fiscal policy--(1) increase in government spending (stimulus), and (2) cut in government spending (deficit management). Is there a way forward out of this conundrum?
Allow me to propose a way out. First, there is a way of thinking that smacks of heresy in some quarters because it has a tinge of socialism, but by way of disclaimer, it is one to which this author does not ascribe in the extreme. Having said that, suppose instead of cutting police, teachers, and firefighters' jobs, the government (and/or the private) sector institutes job-creating policies in both sectors of the economy--private and public. However, in the present political climate, tax increases are, of course, not on the table--they're verbatim--because the political acrimony between the two parties leaves no room for compromise on this. But if the workweek were reduced to 35 hours, the retirement age rolled back to 62 for men and 60 for women, and the minimum wage raised, firms will need to hire more workers to achieve the same level of output at 35 hours as at 40 hours a week. An earlier retirement age will create vacancies for replacement workers. Then of course, a higher minimum wage puts more purchasing power into the hands of workers. If the lack of demand is the source of the economic problem the country faces, these steps will have the positive effect of raising the demand for goods and services. Now, when demand rises, other factors of growth will kick in, too. And the Fed's potency in achieving a policy pass-through from interest rates to investment could be facilitated by this strategy--i.e. the increase in demand from additional employment with implementation of the 35 hours workweek, the lower retirement age, and the increase in the minimum wage would lift business profits. In turn, the larger profit margins will incentivize new business investment. There is another piece to this; that is, low interest rates signal that the U.S. is a good credit risk although political infighting during the recent budget debate around spending and the debt ceiling led to a credit downgrade. S&P dinged the U.S. credit rating from its esteemed AAA to AA+. However, America is still far and away a safe harbor for dollar denominated interest-bearing assets.
If there were ever a good opportunity to borrow dirt-cheap it is now. The current economic climate--this rare moment in history of low interest rates will pass and not soon return, perhaps not in our lifetimes. But banks and other lending institutions stand in the way of easing like petulant kids stomping their feet on the pavement; they refuse to shake loose of their excess reserves, and the Fed's tactical moral suasion efforts so far have failed.


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Vince Bell's Houston roots go way, way back. When Anderson Fair opened its doors in the early '60s, Bell was one of the troubadours who not only played the joint, he also lived in the Montrose. If you can believe him, he ate so many of his meals at the club that he often refers to Anderson Fair in conversation as "that spaghetti restaurant." Bell cut his teeth with folks like Lucinda Williams, Eric Taylor, Townes van Zandt, Gurf Morlix, Steve Fromholtz, Guy Clark and Blaze Foley at the old (and still open) Grant Street club. Bell comes to town today with two purposes. The first is to hawk copies of his book, One Man's Music, 6:30 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore. The book is a chronicle of Bell's old days in Houston's folk scene heyday, but also details his struggle to recover from major brain damage he suffered in a car wreck.
After the book signing, Bell will move up the street to Under the Volcano for an 8 p.m. musical performance, accompanied by his old friend Guy Schwartz. Anyone who buys a book gets the first drink free.
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