This Friday I am continuing to execute my strategy to burn excess vacation days. It works out especially well this weekend, because one of Reagan’s friends is flying into town tonight, for the weekend. I addition to palling around with them this weekend, I will be keeping my eye on the following items:
Friday- Bailout bill. Please, please please flop.
Saturday- U of U against Weber State this weekend. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see my team extend their record to 5-0, on television this weekend, because it will only be televised locally. I will, however, be watching the gamecast online.
Sunday- MotoGP is in Japan this weekend. If Rossi wins, he will have enough points to clinch the 2008 world title.
One final note, completely unrelated to the items above, or weekend events: I saw this article today in the NY Times. It is about skate shoes and how they wear out fast. I wrote a similar article once for my high school paper. When I was younger, I was always broke. So I couldn’t just buy a new pair of skate shoes every couple of weeks. It caused me become very efficient with the shoe goo and duct tape. And we liked it! Hahahah
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3 responses to “Another short week”
Ok…I’m reeeeally curious why you want the bailout to flop. I don’t know what to think of it and I’m sure you have a better perspective.
My take is that I don’t want to pay for others mistakes. But if we’re really going to go into a depression, then it’s worth it.
That is mainly the reason for my position also. I think that if we are going into a depression, no bailout bill is going to help. It may stabilize things for a minute, but I feel like ultimately it will only prolong the inevitable. So not only will we have a depression, but we will have another 700B on the liabilities side of the Federal ledger. So much of what happens in the market is fueled by perception. The US legislating the economy will be perceived as a concession by the government, that capitalism is some how broken. I don’t think that capitalism is broken, and I think that trying to legislate the economy back to health is a huge mistake. This isn’t the 1920’s. You can’t just pass a plan, call the “New Deal II” and expect everything to suddenly rebound. I think that market reaction to the announcement of the proposed legislation was evidence enough that this thing is not going to stimulate anything but skepticism and mistrust of capitalist system.
That picture is one of the coolest flag pics I’ve ever seen!! About the bailout–you ought to call Eddie and ask him his opinion. He has one of course, and, he has a solution that he has emailed his congressman with.