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$100 million bonus to a bailed out company executive

So this will soon become the next big piece of controversial news.  We have a bank  with 6 quarterly losses, that we bailed out and have given at last count $25 billion, yet one inidividual will make $100 million BONUS  on a company that is insolvent.
Yahoo AP:
Citi has reported six straight quarterly losses totaling nearly [...]

Ten Trillion Dollar Debt and Counting

I am a big movie watcher and that includes documentaries.  I watched this PBS special online at Netflix. It is only an hour long and very timely.  PBS Frontline is usually objective and very factual.  They also present ideas in an easy to understand manner.  Here is a little preview clip I found on youtube [...]

How do we solve a budget crisis? Either spend less or earn more.

On an individual level, we all have budgets that we have to live by.  Simply put, we can only spend what we make.  Sometimes we use credit to leverage our standard of living.  In a sense we borrow from our future earnings to have things now (i.e cars, houses. etc).  In this economy, credit has [...]