Many users have problems viewing the videos at TDS (there are nearly 30 pages of problems/complaints on one of their forums). The link did not work for me (as expected).
So here’s the Hulu link.
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Mon, Feb 2, 2009
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Season 14 : Ep. 17|21:41|
Former National Economic Council Director Lawrence Lindsey gives Jon his two cents on Obama’s stimulus plan.
giving tax breaks won’t do anything, people will just shove the extra money under their mattress, anyone who expects the velocity of money for tax breaks to be above 1 is crazy
“people will just shove the extra money under their mattress”
Yes, that may be true. But I don’t understand why improving household balance sheets is such a bad thing. Nor do I really understand where the opposition (among ordinary people) is coming from. A cut in the payroll tax is going to benefit everyone making less that $100K. Why would anyone who is making less than $100K want to have a lower standard of living, if they could have a higher one? (Having more money in the bank is, IMO, encompassed by the term “higher standard of living”).
Stop giving money to the banks; at the same time, give more money to the unemployed. Enough for them to get by, but not so much as to encourage people to quit their jobs.
"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position." —Anonymous
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
February 4th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Many users have problems viewing the videos at TDS (there are nearly 30 pages of problems/complaints on one of their forums). The link did not work for me (as expected).
So here’s the Hulu link.
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Mon, Feb 2, 2009
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Season 14 : Ep. 17|21:41|
Former National Economic Council Director Lawrence Lindsey gives Jon his two cents on Obama’s stimulus plan.
(look about 11:25 in):
http://www.hulu.com/watch/55851/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mon-feb-2-2009
February 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
giving tax breaks won’t do anything, people will just shove the extra money under their mattress, anyone who expects the velocity of money for tax breaks to be above 1 is crazy
February 4th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
haileris @ 11:15
“people will just shove the extra money under their mattress”
Yes, that may be true. But I don’t understand why improving household balance sheets is such a bad thing. Nor do I really understand where the opposition (among ordinary people) is coming from. A cut in the payroll tax is going to benefit everyone making less that $100K. Why would anyone who is making less than $100K want to have a lower standard of living, if they could have a higher one? (Having more money in the bank is, IMO, encompassed by the term “higher standard of living”).
February 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
The problem with tax breaks is that it only applies to those who are working (or pay tax). What about the people without jobs?
February 5th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Jojo99 @ 12:09
Stop giving money to the banks; at the same time, give more money to the unemployed. Enough for them to get by, but not so much as to encourage people to quit their jobs.