The Big Short and Dunning-Kruger Effect Concluded

Hard-working citizens have been forced to dip into their wallets to rescue the very people that destroyed so much of their personal economic futures. The downwardly mobile American electorate has, by and large, an intuitive understanding that they are being royally screwed by the Powers That Be even if they aren’t familiar with the particulars.

The Big Short Part II: The DK Effect Part V

In a series of visual puns, Margot Robbie describes the collapse of the real estate bubble while sipping bubbly in a bubble bath, in this synopsis of The Big Short, nominated by Oscar for best film

The Rape Of The American Taxpayer

The Republican’s economic policies slam up against reality Having been brutally raped by a Wall Street gang, aided and abetted by Bush and his congressional cronies, Americans are now being required to buy the rape kit, as well as bear and raise the mutant child. Watching 60 Minutes last night made my blood boil. It’s opening segment was titled “A …