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Walker proclaims 'Wisconsin School Choice Week;' rally planned for Wednesday
Ushering in a week of events supporting school choice across the country, Gov. Scott Walker has signed a proclamation officially recognizing this last week in January as "Wisconsin School Choice Week," according to a news release.
School choice advocates support giving parents more choices over where to send their children to school. Most support expanding educational options beyond the traditional public school system, such as by allowing children to use taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private, including religious, schools, or by encouraging public charter schools that operate with more independence from districts.
This third annual National School Choice Week has been heavily promoted, and thousands of events across the country have been planned. »Read Full Blog Post
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Unionized??? ICHH, are you out of your mind? The unions were the problem. They were the red devil over the left shoulder of the teachers while "it's all about the kids" was over their right shoulder.Hide replies
In reality, the only "red devil" here is Diane Hendricks, who confirmed - on video - whether Scott Walker planned on "taking care of the union problem" shortly before donating $510,000 to his campaign.
I saw the video, chief, so go sell crazy somewhere else.
Anti union is anti worker and anti middle class and pro corporate oligarch, just like lyin' Ryan.
Jobs, jobs, jobs! This governor is toast in 2014Hide replies
Or 2018, or 2022, or 2026, or 2030.....I'm sure eventually you'll get him.
So, promise the poor that they can get their kid into any school they want. When the student shows up, surprise them with "fees", and then if the there's a behavior problem or special need?....Deport said student and keep the fee. Don't test that child and report that your scores are better than the local public school. Think it doesn't happen?Hide replies
Of course .. no one says you have to stay at one school .. if another one turns out the be a better fit, change ...options are great.
Laker, if a kid is kicked out of a voucher school, the voucher payments stop going to the school.
Oh, and require the parents to provide their own transportation, while simultaneously cutting public transportation. That's gonna help!Hide replies
I think parents can figure it out.
What qualifications does the average parent have Sarno?
they have nifty fliers at the beginning of the school year promising free transportation, free everything, and have free items for signing a child up. then half way through the school year (if that) see ya! but they keep the money and public schools educate the child.
Walker continues the goal of destroying public education at the behest of ALEC (aka Koch brothers stooges). But then why would you expect anything else from a gov who never completed college? He is just an ignorant shill of the big money interests "behind the curtain."
Are there really people against parental choice? The day when we trust the state more than the people, we have given in to tyranny. Let people make the best choice for their own children.Hide replies
yes, it is a failed scam
Sarno that is ridiculous. Parents do not know better than professional educators how to decide on the best education and curriculum for their children. They are not qualified and have no background in this field.
Thank you sarno! Yes, let's let the parents decide where to send their kids, not the government!
More privatization. Taxpayers paying to promote financially failed religious institutions. What a scam!Hide replies
actually the religious schools are the only ones doing well, really well
Religious schools are closing left and right and not providing good quality ed. Cons like this and are about starting charter schools for huge profits from your tax dollars
Come on guys. Give privatized primary education a chance. Maybe it will work just as well as for-profit education has worked at the collegiate level. Just look at all the employers clamoring for the Phoenix, Herzing and DeVry graduates.Hide replies
For profit higher ed is a scam to take money provided to returned vets for education. Those schools are more than suspect and are preying on students and creating huge debt without comparable benefits. Get real.
Walker's leaching For Profit School Choice maggots were hanging around the capitol sucking up to Walker the day he took office. This is political payback for their generous campaign donations.
Walker the doofus that he is could care less about public schools. He could care less about kids. He only cares about himself.
Its ironic that someone who isn't certified to teach falsely portrays himself as a leader in educational reform. Walker is a joke!
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ok, running up from the other thread, bring it on, who is male and childless
I dont
Want them (or one) some day but luckily my girlfriend is a few years younger than me and wants to wait until she's 29/30 (4/5 years) which suits me fine - got a lot of travelling and living I want to do first
21 - a drunk - childless
I can barely look after myself let alone looking after a baby!
Single and loving it. 8)
Yup, that'd be me. My view of kids is softening as I get older but I'm still not a fan at the moment!
single broke guy with no kids I know of!.....
28 and childless! Although I do wish it was the opposite sometimes, I'd love kids!
21 single no children. Would like to have kids in the future.
22 with no kids.
22 with no kids...
21 no kids
24 no kids. Although next year I hope to be posting on the other thread.
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iPhoto for iOS ditches Google Maps?
iPhoto for iOS arrived yesterday with the new iPad, and it not only completes the iLife suite for Apple's mobile platform, but also gives plenty of image editing possibilities tailor-made for touch screen.
There's one tiny detail about it, though, that is not that easy to notice - it seems like it's not using Google Maps. There's still no official confirmation, but this could be huge given the number of devices Apple sells.
Stephen Hackett of 512pixels points out that the maps used in iPhoto look different than Google Maps. He compares screengrabs of the Maps part of iPhoto on desktop and iOS. Interestingly, the desktop version uses Google Maps and gives the right name for "Great Salterns Recreation Ground," while on iOS the same place is referred under its former name of "Great Salterns Golf Course."
Now, one possible theory is that these are Apple's own maps. In 2009 Apple acquired mapping company PlaceBase and in 2011 it bought 3D map tile maker C3 Technologies, all the while whispers were heard in the industry that Cupertino is working on its own maps.
The last piece of the puzzle we have comes from Apple-centric blogger John Gruber. "OK, what I'm hearing now is that Places still uses Google Maps, but the maps in Journals and slideshows are not using Google Maps, and are Apple's own stuff," Gruber shares.
We'll keep you posted when we learn more, but this could potentially be a big deal for Google, don't you think?
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I think I saw somewhere that they are indeed still using Google Maps for the map data, but have changed the map tiles so that the pin stands out better. At least until they get their own program up and running.
At which point, par for the course would be to eject any competing mapping app/service from the App Store, or cripple/complicate it if the developer wants it to remain.
iPhoto for iOS ditches Google Maps?


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After spending the last 4 years in Israel I will my analysis of the current political situation in Israel:There is a wide notion in Israeli politics that a Prime Minister is more likely to be successful during his 2nd time around. This was certainly true for Itzhak Rabin after his debacle of a premiership in 1974. The same can also be said about Ariel Sharon, albeit his political shortcomings came as Israel's Minister of Defense during the 1st Lebanon War. Given Ehud Olmert's corruption charges, Zipi Livni's failure to formulate a government, and the fact that Labor will get its 10 mandates, this is Bibi's election to lose. His addition of Beni Begin makes this seem as if he's trying to re-create the Likud of old - a much more ideological Likud. But make no mistake, Bibi cares most about his personal legacy and he has learned his lessons from his foreign policy failures during the Clinton administration. My gut feeling is that he will be playing ball with Mr. Obama and not become an obstacle to the Obama administration's Middle East policies and objectives. Based on his past premiership and his current political message - Bibi will continue carrying out the fragile truce with Hamas for political cover while taking concrete steps in order to reach a peace agreement with Syria. If for no other reason than to attempt to isolate Iran and Hezbollah, and to cause further disunity in the Palestinian ranks.
It will definitely be interesting to see the results of the election.I haven't seen this forwarded here yet (though, I may have missed it), but I don't think Israel will be in much of a position to effectively negotiate with Palestine (regardless of what the goals for the negotiation are), until they're able to come up with a cohesive Govt.Without it, any agreements to end the occupation of Palestine will fall apart as soon as a more conservative Govt is formed (whether it's a coalition or the result of an election), while any agreement to move in and take over Palestine completely, will similarly be met with a counter-action when a more liberal coalition/govt wins out.
equilibrium wrote:November 03, 2008 20:22NB12:Thank you. What is the general feeling in Israel now? Do you personally feel Likud will comfortably attain the most seats in the next Knesset, or will the next Knesset consist of a large contingent of both Likud and Kadima?*****************About the general feeling I don't know and I don't follow news so much. In fact, I hardly see any TV. But there is a crisis of leadership and it's escalating. If there is a general feeling, it's that everybody's complaining that there are no real leaders around. Many people may fail to show up on the day of elections.Likud won't get most seats since it's never had them. I heard that polls say that the Labor is going to be wiped out in the next elections.
EquilibriumActually I think that Lieberman wanted to reform the system so that 50% of the Knesset would be elected in voting districts and another 50% would come from the old system of party lists
equilibrium wrote:November 03, 2008 16:03Pontius Pilate:Have there been any well known figures in Israel that have openly tried to popularize the idea of a bi-cameral system?Thanks.Equilibrium**********************Such a system is not representative enough. In fact it's not uncommon in such systems that a party wins more votes but fails to get enough seats. Very often most seats go to a party that commands support of barely 1/3 of the electorate. Israel's problem is that it needs to provide representation to all these groups from Russian immigrants to the ultra orthodox to the Arabs. The system is indeed almost 100% representative but as a result it's dysfunctional. For Israel to introduce another system is basically about the majority or the near majority to sideline the minorities and deprive them of representation. It's basically a coup detat. Not that it's impossible, but it's hard to get through.
I am in Israel now almost two-years and at first I took an interest in politics here but I have been thoroughly revolted by it.
Even though I will vote Kadima out of a sense of duty to my children I despise the potlicial system here. It system of PR is so dysfunctional that it has rendered the entire system dysfunctional.
The only way forward is to have a bi-cameral constituent (at least the more powerful house) based system so that regular Israelis have someone that represents them in their region. Israelis think that the system where one's local MP or Congressman acts on their behalf after receiving a few letters from constituents some kind of fantansy. After raking the internet for examples I presented my colleagues with the truth of the Anglo systems and their jaws hit the ground. Such an idea would be immensely popular since all Kennest members are beholden to one but their party lists.
The level of despondency and dire levels of expectation from their politicians in Israel is a disgrace to modern democracy and the fault lies entirely with the politicans here of any stripe.
They are shameless.
Lets hope the next American president will provide the leadership required to steer Israel through these troubled waters so a leader with real vision, a vision of a functional political future, can come forth (and hopefully one that did not see the Israeli army as a vehicle to a political career)
Once again you kid yourself and try to kid others.
You cite the case of Gaza which , you must admit,IS a large prison cut off from the rest of the world on land ,sea and air.
Your citation is neither true nor respectful of your readers' intelligence
Possibly, nay propably, Israel was hoping it will replicate in GAZA the Warsaw Ghetto syndrome which was ruled by Jewish Kapos but was also cut off the world and encircled by the Nazi army!(AS you know it did NOT work that way in Gaza.)
AS to the West Bank, whose most fertile lands and such amenities as school playgrounds were cut off it with the WAll, the most one can say is that it has a very limited form of "Municipal" self adminisration in isolated "municipalities" cut off from each other and from other habitation centers by HUNDREDS of road blocks.
IT is also cut off the rest of the world via normal land, sea and air communications except for some (only two; one for persons and the other for trucks) land communication to Jordan under very strict Israeli control and supervision.
AS you know, or should know, it is much easier to leav, depart, through these than to return!
You can NOT be serious!
(Once again I have to remind you that this is The Economist whose readers are NOT as ignorant as you wish them to be.)
Be serious and do NOT claim that 1 1=23!
However you actually may be serious in the sense that that state of affairs, in Gaza and the West Bank, is what you envisage as the ultimate state of affairs that would constitute "peace" to Israel.
RE mode of resistance:
Each occupied or colonized country, Palestine being both,has its special conditions which determine the mode of resistance to be followed.
The Indian people, that you give as an example via Ghandi, was neither "DISLOCATED" nor "DISPOSSESSED" by Britishers nor were Indians ever denied the Right to Return to their homeland.
The Indian people was NEVER supplanted by alien British civilians,as were the Palestinians by alien Jewish persons, that took over his homes, fields,shops, workshops etc etc as the Palestinian people was and still is.
THe enemy in India was the British army and the British Colonial Administration that India, led by Ghandi, chose to confront the way they did.
That certainly does not apply to Palestine!
(Post note: Your repeated reference to Jordan as being part of Palestine supports my contention of "for this phase of the conflict only" in my earlier sentence:
"Israel wants "peace" at its own constant and invariable terms which are, for this phase of the conflict only, complete and unadulturated domination of every thing , and every one, in and on ALL of historical Palestine")
Dr. Ory Amitay wrote:November 01, 2008 17:22NB12 -. . .Yet how do we behave towards ourselves? Ask anyone who is not a part of the top 5% in income, and you will get the same answer: the state is selling us out to the oligarchs. With this sense of betrayal on everyone's mind, there is no chance for any peace deal whatsoever. ************************I am not a part of the top 5%. My friends are not. I've never heard anybody making such a connection between peace and privatization. Never mind that living standards of most people I know have improved over the last years. The unemployment in Israel is at the 20 years something low. You are constructing your thesis out of the thin air. It may be true that the attitudes have hardened over the last years but this is for very different reasons. The peace camp was given a chance to put its ideas to practice and they did not work. It's as simple as that. There is no shame in this. In fact, I voted both Rabin and Barak, but the time has come to admit we were wrong. Many people I know are like me, former leftists, but they are sane and reasonable enough to admit that this banging one's head against the wall can't go on indefinitely.One would also expect Shimon Peres and co. to come forward with apologies and admit their failure as well as take responsibility for hundreds of lives wasted in suicide attacks due to this botched peace process. This has never happened but this may be the one single most important reason why people are fed up with this peace project. Now I see that the leftist die-hards found another scapegoat for this situation - privatization. Who are kidding with this stuff ?? Yourself maybe?? Search closer for the answer. Much closer because it's you.
You cite the case of the telecom market, which indeed benefited greatly from privatization. Not only in price, btw, but also in quality of service. This case is indeed cited often, because it is an all too rare example of privatization that did any good here in Israel.
A basic tenet of privatization is to allow for a competitive market. The usual modus operandi in Israel is selling monopolies to one of the few oligarchic families (often for prices well below market value). This benefits no one but the oligarchs themselves.
The Dead Sea plants, so sold, are now on the verge of creating an ecological disaster in the area (right on the Syro-African fault-line. How smart is that?). The same is true for the refineries at the Haifa Bay Area (highest cancer rates in the country). I could go on.
But we are talking about the chances for peace. G.T. remarked below on the bad deal offered to the Palestinian. Please stop to consider what the Israelis are asked to do: give up a whole lot of land (well, a lot in local terms), risk civil war with those settlers who would not budge, and put faith in an Arab world which is full of voices calling out for Israel's destruction.
Despite all this, there are still many people who are willing to take the risk, based on the faith, entrenched in two and a half millennia of Bible reading, that our fate is in our hands alone.
Yet how do we behave towards ourselves? Ask anyone who is not a part of the top 5% in income, and you will get the same answer: the state is selling us out to the oligarchs. With this sense of betrayal on everyone's mind, there is no chance for any peace deal whatsoever.
Let us NOT kid ourselves and stop trying to mislead others less concerned.(This is , you know,the Economist and NOT one of those rag sheets where anything goes if you go on repeating it long enough!)
Israel wants "peace" at its own constant and invariable terms which are, for this phase of the conflict only, complete and unadulturated domination of every thing , and every one, in and on ALL of historical Palestine.
That would be TOTAL Palestinian submission ; that is NOT going to happen !
Your reference to "terror" hampering negotiations is not only childish but is made in the same deceptive vein.
For one thing resistance to military occupation with all available means is NOT "terror"; for another you know perfectly well that occupation demands,invites resistance .
That is 1 1=2!
Kindly spare us elementary school yard arguments and "logic".
Honesty and plain speaking is the only possible approach at this juncture for any thing of use to come out .
GTI have to give it to you - you simply excel at producing meaningless posts full of empty statements and devoid of any practical details. The point of disagreement around which the Oslo process collapsed was the issue of refugees. It was not about the settlements and it was not about the borders. If you want to criticize Israel's or Arafat's refusal to compromise on the right of return, you are free to do it. But you are just pouring water for hours through the forum without actually saying anything in real terms. Clever Israelis, vicious Americans, naive and defenseless Palestinians... I really envy the rich emotional life you are enjoying over there, but otherwise your sentimentality is only good for soap operas, there is hardly any place for such stuff here.
Very well put.
At Clinton's Camp David the Palestinians were "negotiating" with a joint US/Israel team as you indicate.
So much for the honesty of the "honest brocker".
mrsf: I agree completely that his experience means we should not dismiss him out of hand. He has a very great deal of first-hand experience with the issues that not many others do.However, while that means he's an expert on the matter, it in no way means he's fair, OR unbiased. Arafat and Barak, too, were experts on the matter, but I don't think anyone would argue they were unbiased.I don't contest Arafat made no counter-offers. considering the conditions under which the meetings were held, I seriously doubt I would have bothered with counter-offers either.The US team notes they weren't allowed to promote anything to the Palestinians without clearing it through Israel first. I'm sure the Palestinian's were well aware of that. As such, the talks as a whole were a sham. They weren't there to be free or fair, but to try and cow the Palestinian's into submission to Israel.
Your memory seems to fail you.
A return to that post Clinton's Camp David era will show that the Barak/Arafaat negotiations were almost immediately resumed, without either of the two, in Sharm Al Sheihk, or was it Taba ?, and great "progress" was achieved then and there according to sources from both camps.
Nothing was finalized nor officially ratified because Israel had pending elections which Barak lost....and was replaced by Sharon who etc etc etc.
I do NOT " blame" Israel for that; it is a game Israel is playing very cleverly.
If anything I blame the Palestinian leadership for playing along by going after that same mirage thus enabling Israel to go on playing...while the construction and expansion of SETTLEMENTS, inter alia, goes on unabated!
Try www.mideastweb.org. They have copies of many original documents on their site.As for Dennis Ross, yes he is part Jewish and identifies strongly with Judaism. He was criticized by Arabs and their supporters for being too pro-Israel, and by some Israelis and their supporters for leaning too hard on Israel. What is true? I don't think there is an objective answer to that question. However, Ross' credentials and years of experience, not to mention his detailed account of both, speak volumes about his attempts at fairness. It is foolish to simply dismiss his account because some people think he had political or ideological leanings. Most Americans and Israelis blame Arafat for the collapse of the negotiations. Most Arabs blame the deal itself. Perhaps there is truth to both claims, but the fact remains that Arafat made no counter-offers. In fact, PA Minister of Communication Imhad Falouji, among other Palestinian officials, publicly admitted that the Intifada, or outbreak of violence, had been planned in advance (Lamia Lahoud, "PA minister: Intifada planned since July," Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2001).
Also, you know Dennis Ross is 1/2 Jewish, and has been criticized by the Arabs, the Israeli's, and his own negotiation team as being biased towards Israel?Arab criticism: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_9_36/ai_n6332299Israeli criticism: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR200505... member of his own team stated: "With the best of motives and intentions, we listened to and followed Israel's lead without critically examining what that would mean for our own interests, for those on the Arab side and for the overall success of the negotiations. The "no surprises" policy, under which we had to run everything by Israel first, stripped our policy of the independence and flexibility required for serious peacemaking. If we couldn't put proposals on the table without checking with the Israelis first, and refused to push back when they said no, how effective could our mediation be? Far too often, particularly when it came to Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, our departure point was not what was needed to reach an agreement acceptable to both sides but what would pass with only one -- Israel" (source is from the Post article above).
Can you cite your online source for the deal, please?
G.T.:That is absolutely not what the deal proposed. You must look at the text of the deal. The offer was for a sovereign, Palestinian state, not an Israeli enclave. Israel would have removed settlements from the middle of the West Bank, making it contiguous, and ceded control of all of East Jerusalem. Again, Dennis Ross makes this clear in his book, as does Bill Clinton in his autobiography.
mrsf: For one thing, just prior to the talks at Camp David, West Bank Palestinians were confined to over 200 scattered areas, and Clinton-Barak did propose an improvement: consolidation to three cantons, under Israeli control, virtually separated from one another and from the fourth enclave, a small area of East Jerusalem, the center of Palestinian life and of communications in the region.Consolidation of groups into the 4 areas is a good thing. Them being under Israeli control and completely cut off from one another is not.
G.T.:What were the bad parts of the deal Israel offered Arafat? Certainly the Palestinians were required to make compromises, but then so was Israel. According to Dennis Ross, the US Envoy to the Middle East from 1988-2000, even Arafat's negotiators were shocked that he had refused the deal, and Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan said privately that any bloodshed resulting from the failure of the peace talks was on Arafat's hands. See Ross's book, The Missing Peace.
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Hehehe, we have this here in our 'games' section. Gets unlocked after school and at the end of term.
Running a computer games club at the college I'm at, I was looking at free games, open games, or anything that didnt cost money. So the students could play together nicly (yes, I know Im hopeful)
Anyways, I ran across this little gem, something I remember from years ago, its "Transport Tycoon".
It appears some nice people have managed to recreate most of it as open source, its even better than the original and its simply fantastic!!! The many hours I lost on the original I appear to be losing again now.
Who else remembers this little wonder, and who will now be addicted!
Hehehe, we have this here in our 'games' section. Gets unlocked after school and at the end of term.
It is great. I can spend absolutely hours on that thing losing billions! Hmmmm, I wonder if that is where certain bankers got their training?
i was going to give this a bash but i don't have the original game so can't run it ;(
It is very good, also the signaling is light years ahead of the original.
First is the openGFX project, that way you dont require any of the original files.
The other is if you trust the fact that the original is now abandonware, if you do, then its out there and you can get the files you need.
(I had the original to take the files off, but the openGFX files make it look very nice)
The true are in the game is trains, doing the game with a complete train network, no aircraft
Trains also explode better if you mess up your track by mistake.
I've had a Transport Tycoon Deluxe Scenarios download section on my website since Sept 2000 and according my stats page it's served over 33gb of data since then. Many of the scenarios are still being downloaded today.
It amazes me that this game is still so popular, it's a true classic.
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I've been playing openTTD for a couple of years - it's great. In my younger years I play the origional for years and OpenTTD brought back the love!
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Use to build a power station and a coal mine, train between the two, then leave it running for a while, then buyout the others. Wish it was a screensaver....
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Its about half way down the page, under the title of "Version 2"
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It's Not So Rosie: What Keeps A Gloomy Realist Up At NightSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2012 17:06 -0500
Yesterday, we were offered 'hopes and prayers' by Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg. However, as he warned then, there are some things to be worried about. From the wide gaps in voting patterns across socio-economic lines and the expectations that populist policies will be the hallmark of Obama's second term to the mixed-to-negative data across employment data, consumer spending indications, housing, and Europe; it appears the market is starting to price in some positive probability of a fiscal cliff and these macro data do nothing to subsidize that reality. While the President does not face the Great Recession of four years ago, he does confront the "Not So Great Recovery" nonetheless.
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David Rosenberg: "Hope And A Prayer"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/07/2012 15:58 -0500
It is not going to be a new government that necessarily ushers in a whole new era of growth, prosperity and confidence. Even under the revered Ronald Reagan, the period of secular growth and bull market activity took two years to unfold — it didn't happen right away. It took the inflationary excesses to be wrung out of the system and concrete signs that the executive and legislative branches could work together to usher in true fiscal reform — and to get blue Democrats on board with reduced top marginal tax rates. Hope isn't generally a very useful strategy, but there is reason to be hopeful nonetheless. The critical issue is going to be how we get Washington to move back to the middle where it belongs. This requires bipartisanship which in turn requires leadership. Reagan's whole eight-year tenure in the 1980s occurred with the House being in Democrat hands the whole way through. Bill Clinton's second term coincided with both the House and Senate controlled by the Republicans.
It can be done!
With this in mind, the best that can happen is a Reaganesque and Clintonesque return to compromise on the road to fiscal reform. It will be painful. We all know it will be painful.
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Rosie On Sandy: One Economist's Realistic Hurricane Post-MortemSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2012 16:44 -0500
Tired of idiotic "expert assessments" how the destruction in the aftermath of Sandy is good for the economy and "creates wealth" (just ask these people or these how much wealthier they feel with their house halfway still underwater, or with not a bite to eat)? Then read the following brief summary by David Rosenberg what the real and full impact of Rosie on the US will be: "the surprise for Q4? A negative GDP print."
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David Rosenberg: "What Is Wrong With This Market?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/23/2012 21:12 -0500
What is wrong with this market? The S&P 500, instead of grinding higher in the aftermath of QE3 actually hit its peak for the year the day after the policy announcement. Go figure. Maybe economic reality finally caught up with Mr. Market (there is a very fine line between "'resiliency" and "denial" — and keep in mind that the S&P 500 is still up 14% in a year in which profits are now contracting, not just slowing down)... On average, six weeks hence, the S&P 500 was up more than 9% after the policy announcement. It was all so novel! Tech on average was up over 11%, industrials were up 12%... ditto for Consumer Discretionary and Materials. The cyclicals flew off the shelves. But this time around. either Mr. Market is jaded or the laws of diminishing returns are setting in. Six weeks after the unveiling of QE3, the market is down 2%. This hasn't happened before. Every economic-sensitive sector is in the red, and even Financials — the one sector that should benefit from all the "sucking at the Fed teat" — have made no money for anybody!
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Rosenberg On The Unemployment Rate: "If It's Too Good To Be True, Then It Probably Is"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2012 11:55 -0500
Much has been said about yesterday's laughable jobs report. Here is a little more, only this time not from some politicized CTRL-C/CTRL-V major who was forced to take out the HP-12C for the first time from their storage closet and pretend they have any idea about finance and economics, but from David Rosenberg.
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David Rosenberg On The 'One-Trick Pony Market'Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/24/2012 10:34 -0500
Global economic fundamentals are awful, bearish divergences are occurring everywhere, investor sentiment is nearing bullish extremes, political risks remain high and last week's market performance can be summed up in four words - 'lack of follow through'. As Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg explains, more than two-thirds of the rally points the stock market has enjoyed since the summer-time lows occurred around central bank policy announcements. So the market is really a one-trick pony here, breathing in the fumes of central bank liquidity. What was supposed to happen, as the elites told us, was that the lagging hedge funds were going to throw in the towel and chase this market. Everyone expects this to be a major source of buying power. At the same time, what if the bulls who lucked out this year because they hung onto Ben Bernanke's arm decide to take profits or at the least lock in their gains? CRitically, as Rosie details, QE3 is occurring at a different point in the cycle this time and insomuch as it helps invogorate already rising 'animal spirits' we suspect it has missed the baot.
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Rosenberg: "If The US Is Truly Japan, The Fed Will End Up Owning The Entire Market"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/14/2012 17:15 -0500
What the Fed did was actually much more than QE3. Call it QE3-plus... a gift that will now keep on giving. The new normal of bad news being good news is now going to be more fully entrenched for the market and 'housing data' (the most trustworthy of data) - clearly the Fed's preferred transmission mechanism - is now front-and-center in driving volatility. I don't think this latest Fed action does anything more for the economy than the previous rounds did. It's just an added reminder of how screwed up the economy really is and that the U.S. is much closer to resembling Japan of the past two decades than is generally recognized. It would seem as though the Fed's macro models have a massive coefficient for the 'wealth effect' factor. The wealth effect may well stimulate economic activity at the bottom of an inventory or a normal business cycle. But this factor is really irrelevant at the trough of a balance sheet/delivering recession. The economy is suffering from a shortage of aggregate demand. Full stop. It just perpetuates the inequality that is building up in the country, and while this is not a headline maker, it is a real long term risk for the health of the country, from a social stability perspective as well.
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David Rosenberg's New Normal: "The Economy Does Not Drive The Markets Any More"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2012 18:28 -0500
Bill Gross may be credited with inventing the term 'the New Normal', although his recommendation to purchase gold above all other asset classes, something which only fringe blogs such as this one have been saying is the best trade (in terms of return, Sharpe Ratio, and the ability to sleep soundly) for the past three and a half years, he is sure to be increasingly ostracized by the establishment, and told to take all his newfangled idioms with him in his exile to less than serious people land. Which takes us to David Rosenberg, who today revisits his own definition of the New Normal. And it, too, is just as applicable as that of the Pimco boss: "The new normal is that the economy doesn't drive markets any more." Short and sweet, although it also is up for debate whether the economy ever drove the markets in the first place. But that would open up a whole new conspiratorial can of worms, and is a discussion best saved for after Ben Bernanke decides to save the "housing market" by buying more hundreds of billions in MBS and lowering mortgage yields further, even though mortgage rates already are at record lows (something that mortgage applications apparently couldn't care less about as we showed last week), while "avoiding" to do everything in his power to boost the S&P, which recently was at 5 year highs, and certainly "avoiding" to listen to Chuck Schumer telling him to do his CTRL+P job, and "get to work" guaranteeing Schumer's donors have another whopper of a bonus season.
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Peter Schiff Discovers No Country For Corporate ProfitsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/06/2012 20:01 -0500
Peter Schiff pulled an OccupyWallStreet (remember that whole Occupy movement?) at the Democratic National Convention. What he did, was succeed in exposing some very disturbing prevailing beliefs about the government's role in establishing the 'utility' value of the free market as manifested by corporations, namely that according to a broad cross-section of society, it is the government job to "explicitly outlaw profitability." We wish to remind readers that this has been done on numerous occasions in the past, but most "effectively" in the Soviet Union's centrally planned regime. Until the USSR's failure of course. The premise of eliminating profitability is also quite popular, and even has its own name: nationalization, and its result in a business "manager" who is perfectly ambivalent if the state owned enterprise makes or loses money. After all the wage is determined by a politburo, and is not a function of the profits, or losses, a business may engender. Furthermore, it is probably worth reminding that the primary tenet behind capitalism is the production of goods and services for a profit. Sadly, quite a few of these concepts appear to have not been made clear to not just one or two Americans as the following clip demonstrates.
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The New Normal Of Investing: Bonds For The Price, Equities For The YieldSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/06/2012 13:59 -0500
The dividend theme has hardly run its course. As David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff illustrates in his latest note, the income-starved retiring boomers are being forced to garner income more and more via the equity market where dividends are up more than 8% over the past year. Because of ultra-low interest rates, interest income growth has vanished completely. And here is the great anomaly. Back in the early 1980s, investors bought equities for capital appreciation and they purchased Treasury securities for yield. Today it is the complete opposite.
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Why Paul McCulley Would Be Shorting The Economy With Both Hands Right NowSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2012 16:51 -0500
According to the plethora of long-only managers willing to trot out on the public stage and beg for more commissions, the US has been (and will remain) the cleanest-dirty-shirt in the global risk asset laundry basket; but as David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff points out not only has the S&P 500 hit a new record high in its total return index but it also possesses a rather 'ebullient' valuation premium (2012E P/E) of 13.8x relative to China 9.8x and Europe 11.4x. However, while this is more than enough to slow some investors from backing up the long-truck, Rosie goes on to highlight a very worrisome indicator - that favored by ex-PIMCO's Paul McCulley. The YoY trend in the three-month moving average of core capex orders (which was updated last Friday) has just cracked negative, crushing the hopes of US growth prospects and we assume equity superlatives. However, since the market no longer reflects anything; certainly not the economy, but merely who will ease more when and how, one really can't short much if anything, even if McCulley is 100% spot on.
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David Rosenberg On A Modern Day Depression Vs Dow 20,000Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 16:19 -0500
This is looking more and more like a modem-day depression. After all, last month alone, 85,000 Americans signed on for Social Security disability cheques, which exceeded the 80,000 net new jobs that were created: and a record 46 million Americans or 14.8% of the population (also a record) are in the Food Stamp program (participation averaged 7.9% from 1970 to 2000, by way of contrast) — enrollment has risen an average of over 400,000 per month over the past four years. A record share of 41% pay zero national incomes tax as well (58 million), a share that has doubled over the past two decades. Increasingly, the U.S. is following in the footsteps of Europe of becoming a nation of dependants. Meanwhile, policy stimulus, whether traditional or non-conventional, are still falling well short of generating self-sustaining economic growth.
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"The Use Of Temps Is Outpacing Outright New Hirings By A 10-To-1 Ratio"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/11/2012 18:03 -0500
For many months, if not years, we have been beating the drum on what we believe is the most hushed, but significant story in the metamorphosis of the US labor pool under the New Normal, one which has nothing to with quantity considerations, which can easily be fudged using seasonal and birth death adjustments, and other statistical "smoothing" but with quality of jobs: namely America's transformation to a part-time worker society. Today, one of the very few economists we respect, David Rosenberg, pick up on this theme when he says in his daily letter that "the use of temps is outpacing outright new hirings by a 10-to-1 ratio." And unlike in the old normal, or even as recently as 2011, temp hires are no longer a full-time gateway position: "Moreover, according to a Manpower survey, 30% of temporary staffing this year has led to permanent jobs, down from 45% in 2011.... In today's world, the reliance on temp agencies is akin to "just in time" employment strategies." Everyone's skillset is now a la carte in the form of self-employed mini S-Corps, for reason that Charles Hugh Smith explained perfectly well in "Dear Person Seeking a Job: Why I Can't Hire You." Sadly, that statistic summarizes about everything there is to know about the three years of "recovery" since the recession "ended" some time in 2009.
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David Rosenberg Channels Felix ZulaufSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2012 18:58 -0500
"We are witnessing the biggest financial-market manipulation of all time. The authorities have intervened more and more, and thereby created this monster. They might change the rules when the game goes against their own interests. We are in a severe credit crunch. It starts when the weakest links in the system can't finance their activities. Then you have a flight to safety into Treasuries and German bunds, compounded by a quasi-shortage of good collateral. That's why bond yields have fallen so low. This isn't an inflationary environment but a deflationary one."
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David Rosenberg On Austerity, Politics, And The Light At The End Of The TunnelSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2012 20:26 -0500
Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg may be cautious on the outlook for risk assets and cyclical securities over the near- and intermediate-term, but, he notes, change is always at the margin, and it usually starts in the political sphere. Austerity is not some dirty nine-letter word as the socialists in Europe would have you believe. It is all about living within your means and living up to your commitments. There is some good news in the United States with respect to this topic, but the uncertainty over the extent of next year's tax bite is likely to cause households and businesses to pull spending back and raise cash, at the margin, which means the economy won't turn around in time for Mr. Obama. As was the case with Ronald Reagan, just having a clear and coherent fiscal plan will part the clouds of uncertainty and encourage capital to be put at risk rather than sit as idle unproductive cash on corporate balance sheets. In a somewhat stunning sentence from the no-longer-a-permabear, he notes that "The future is brighter than you think", but just in case you are backing up the truck, he adds "this does not mean we will not have another recession, by the way — as we suffer through a deflationary debt deleveraging. I'm noticing a certain degree of despair these days, just as I am getting enthusiastic about the future. Much depends on what happens on November 6th and between now and then we still have the European mess, China hard landing risks and the U.S. debt ceiling issue to confront. Be that as it may, those with some dry powder on hand will be in a solid position to take advantage of whatever forced "panic" selling takes place."
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WATERLOO, ON, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Ontario, Canada, is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Director Neil Turok to a second five-year term at the Institute's helm.
In conjunction with the renewal, Perimeter also announced the establishment of the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Niels Bohr Chair in Theoretical Physics, with Dr. Turok as the inaugural chairholder. This is the second Perimeter Research Chair to be announced, following the 2012 appointment of Xiao-Gang Wen as the BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics.
In making the announcement, Board Chair Mike Lazaridis said, "When we invited Dr. Neil Turok to be Perimeter's Director in 2008, we knew he was a world-class scientist and a visionary leader. What he has brought to the Institute in his first term as Director has been nothing short of outstanding. Under his direction, Perimeter has become one of the leading centres for theoretical physics in the world. The Board's decision to re-appoint Neil was unanimous, as was the support for the decision from faculty and Perimeter's Scientific Advisory Committee. We look forward to his ongoing leadership, as we continue to build Perimeter Institute and the Quantum Valley in Waterloo Region. It is also a special privilege for Ophelia and me to lend our name to this new Chair that will support Neil's world-leading research in early universe cosmology."
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I've reported on the city of The Dalles for several years and marvel at the patience and perseverance those folks have for the arduous process of remaking their downtown, a hard-by-the-rails hodge-podge of discount stores and small boutiques; part beautifully restored historic buildings and part eyesores.
The town was cut off from the Columbia River when I-84 was built decades ago, and city officials have ambitious plans to turn the town back around to face the river that include a second highway underpass; completion of a riverfront trail; restoration of historic buildings; and upgrading the look of First, Third and Fourth streets.
More than two years ago I wrote about how the much-heralded arrival of a Google server farm belied the decades of hard work and planning that kept the town moving forward despite its boom-bust cycle that started with the aluminum downturn in the '80s. The town also struggles with historically high unemployment, high poverty rates and low wages. And this recession has been as brutal to them as anyone.
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Our poll this week asking if John Kitzhaber would be good or bad for business showed that he's got some work to do to woo the business vote. Kitzhaber, 62, was governor of Oregon for two consecutive terms from 1995-2003. He threw his hat back into the ring a few weeks ago.
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Jobs Watch: The recession is over. Sort of.
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Editor's Notes: Saying goodbye to Bob
When his son took the stage at the beginning of the "Party for Bob" last night, he spoke clearly and strongly, but the son's voice could not keep from faltering at times as he remembered his father. What child could hold steady saying such a goodbye?
Erik Gerding's dad might have helped build a city, but first and before all that, he was a beloved father, husband and granddad.And so this public memorial for him was a very private one. It didn't celebrate the Brewery Blocks he helped build, the green revolution he helped spark, or even the theater that bears his name and bore witness to his goodbye. Those tributes had been paid.
No. This memorial was for Bob Gerding's family, who filled the first row of the Gerding Theater in dowtown Portland, as the business, civic and political leaders filled the rest of the auditorium. The family had invited the community to share in their deeply personal memories of Bob, who died Aug. 18 at the age of 71 after a long battle with cancer.
On The Scene: Global food for thought
Deciding whether to take your food product into the global market could have more at stake than just the success of your company. It could also be a matter of making Oregon the fulcrum of the Pacific Rim, or holding the state back as "California's Canada."
Jeff Deiss, business and cooperative program director of USDA Rural Development Oregon, jokingly kicked off a presentation Friday with these comparisons, but the point was clear: Oregon is at an important crossroads to take advantage of global food-market opportunities. The presentation, "Emerging Global Food Markets: Opportunities and Challenges for Oregon," was a talk by Tom Reardon of Michigan State University, an expert on international food trends. Nearly 100 people packed the World Trade Center auditorium in downtown Portland, and as the country commemorated the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Deiss pointed out that it was an appropriate time to discuss how Oregon can contribute its resources to help create a more integrated global economy.
Reardon was fresh from a months-long visit to India, just one of the many places he's visited that has given him a unique perspective on food trends. His biggest observation: The massive growth of emerging markets, primarily in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, whose incomes and economies have grown so rapidly over the past decades that they essentially added 1 billion middle-class consumers to the market. What's more, the food market in these emerging areas is growing 500% to 700% faster than the U.S. market. "I'm going to argue that the emerging markets will be the centerpiece of your thinking in 10 or 15 years, because they'll be the main market in the world," Reardon said.
The OB Poll: Some good economic news
More than half of the respondents in this week's poll bring a bit of good economic news: they say that their company is holding steady against the hard winds of the downturn and some of them even plan to hire.
Just a small percentage say that they are gearing up to fire workers, which may be proof that the reports that we've reached bottom are true.
According to the Associated Press, companies are laying off fewer workers as the U.S. economy shows consistent signs that the recession is over. The Federal Reserve said this week that 11 of its 12 regional banks reported the economy is stabilizing, an improvement from previous reports.
Editor's Notes: Business, books and blather
A recent afternoon in the business book section at Powell's reaffirmed my belief that you can tell the mood of the nation by current titles: How the Mighty Fall; House of Cards; Fool's Gold. My beloved pundits are great Monday morning quarterbacks, but didn't see the ball coming until it whacked them in the nose. Nice work, fellows! I'd give you $30 of my hard-earned money but I can't because I, and the nation, agree with you: Everyone's a crook!
Moving down the book aisles, I found that as a woman I have a few issues to work out that I hadn't yet come to terms with. Diane Sawyer (nationally touted as "63 and still gorgeous!") promises me in her blurb for Womenomics that it's a "personal, provocative and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life." Gorgeous needs to fix her life? I'm in!
With the authors' help, I will be able to demand the balance that's been missing in my life; stop fighting the old gender wars and use my power to negotiate, say no and damn it all, stop feeling crappy about it, not to mention getting over the guilt I feel about hating Diane. I immediately felt guilty about despising books that suppose women have been victims most of their life and then ask them to spend $28 to get out of the mess. I decided not to buy this book, and I didn't feel guilty. Golly, working already!
Jobs Watch: Something's burning in Burns
Something was burning in Burns, and it smelled awful. Turns out the town dump was on fire: Black smoke was spewing forth from a privately operated landfill loaded with treated wood, plastics and fiberglass from the RV manufacturing plant.
This was the last thing I wanted to breathe in on a sweet morning last Thurdsay in Harney County, where fewer than 8,000 people populate 10,000 square miles of high desert and pine forest. You expect dust storms, sagebrush, weather-beaten pickup trucks, barbed wire, dried up lakes, bullet holes in the road signs. But burning fiberglass?
The locals weren't too happy about it, either. The smell served as an acrid reminder of the latest industry to leave town. Bankrupt Monaco Coach, which employed 6,500 people as recently as 2006, was in the last stages of shutting down its local operation, with its final day of operations set for Friday. The closure of the Monaco plant leaves Harney County with basically no manufacturing jobs. That's a harsh reality to accept in a town that once had one of the busiest lumber mills in the world.
Your Business: It's time to get schooled
The kids here in Portland go back to school today, and with my youngest starting high school, it occurred to me that some of the advice we routinely give our children could just as easily be given to each other.
Isn't the following true for your small business? It is for mine.
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Officials said 16 civilians and six police officers had been killed and at least 33 others injured in the attack on Sunday.A standoff in the area lasted about 50 minutes, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the attack in Charikar, the provincial capital."Our initial reports suggest at least six explosions," Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, told Al Jazeera.Seddiqi said gunmen, wearing explosive vests, approached governor Abdul Basir Salangi's compound. One of them detonated himself at the gate, while the others entered the compound."The attack began around noon, and there is a clearance operation underway," he said.The governor spoke to local television from inside the compound, saying he was fine but his forces were battling the remaining fighters."One of the attackers made it to the front door of my office and I shot him down," Salangi told ToloNews.Parwan lies about an hour's drive northwest of the capital Kabul.Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Kabul, said the Taliban had claimed responsibility for the attack about 15 minutes after the incident."Parwan has been considered one of the safest provinces. This attack again highlights how vulnerable some of these provinces are that attackers can seemingly penetrate at will," he said.
The Bagram Airbase, which is the largest US base in Afghanistan, is also in Parwan.High-profile targetingsThe attack is the latest in a trend of high-profile targetings that the Taliban have claimed responsibility for.In July, three major figures in southern Afghanistan, including Afghan president Hamid Karzai's influential half-brother Ahmad Wali, were assassinated."In May, the Taliban made a statement saying they were expanding their operations as part of their Operation Badr," said Stratford. "It seems like that is happening now."Northern Afghanistan, including Parwan, was relatively peaceful during the first few years of the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.In the past couple years, after security deteriorated in the area, the government launched an offensive to restore security.General Daud Daud, the police chief of northern zone who led the operations, was assassinated in May, derailing the progress.
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U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) today announced that it has signed a multi- year agreement with Wildcat Minerals LLC which provides the Company with potential sand storage and rail capacity at 16 of Wildcat's sand storage facilities, located near several major unconventional oil and gas shale basins. With the addition of these new sites, the Company now has in basin storage capacity at 40 transloads located near all of the major shale basins in the United States.
"We're very excited about the prospects to bolster our supply chain and logistics capabilities through our strategic relationship with Wildcat," said U.S. Silica President and Chief Executive Officer Bryan Shinn. "This arrangement will enable us to enter new markets, expand our footprint in existing markets, including the Bakken and the Permian basins and better serve our customers by ensuring that they have greater access to ample supplies of our sand in basin and closer to the wellhead."
Pete Melcher, Chief Operating Officer of Wildcat, commented, "Our Company is very excited about the opportunity to work with one of the country's premier hydraulic fracturing sand producers. We look forward to forging a mutually beneficial relationship with U.S. Silica as we work together to further enhance their logistics capabilities."
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It's not easy for rural small-business owners to get local bank loans, and that's a big problem for them as well as a growing problem for the banks.
It's mostly a byproduct of the consolidation of banks, which put many smaller institutions under the brand of a big regional or mega-bank. A report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University shows that big banks made up 44% of U.S. bank assets at the end of 2013, compared with 23% in 2000.
That's a big jump in asset margins, and it's a big reason entrepreneurs out in the hinterlands are having so much trouble getting access to critical loans and lines of credit.
Another study, this one from Baylor University, says that since smaller, local banks are squeezed out of the picture, rural business owners have to turn to "faraway, unknown banking officials" to survive, rather than relying on local lenders as in the past.Faceless bank decision-makers 300 miles away are now responsible, in many cases, for making lending and financing decisions without ever shaking the hand of the small-business owner asking for the loan -- a big step away from the relationship banking that has been a hallmark of smaller financial institutions dating back to before the Revolutionary War, when Ben Franklin could get a local bank loan to launch his own printing business.
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