The Curious Engineer

Ian Welsh

2009

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December 2009

  1. How Crises Play Out
  2. Security Theater
  3. More Notes on How To Help Homeowners
  4. How To Bail Out Ordinary Mortgage Holders And Not Just Banks
  5. A fundamental cause of healthcare costs exploding
  6. The Iranian Government Destroys Its Own Legitimacy
  7. Worth Reading
  8. Merry Christmas
  9. Oh Wait, the Freddie/Fannie Scam is Now Unlimited
  10. The 400 Billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Robbery
  11. With Friends Like Democratic Congresspeople
  12. The House Bill Ain’t That Much Better
  13. An Evening Rant To All the Fools Who Think Bernanke Saved the World And Obama has done the right things
  14. America’s Future: Sheriff Joe Arpaio
  15. A Cadillac Plan is one where you get the care you need
  16. Money For Nothing and Climate Change for Free
  17. Better to pass a bad bill than no bill?
  18. What Failure of Health Care “Reform” Will Mean
  19. I’m with Johnny
  20. 20 Answers on why the health care bill needs to die for Nate Silver
  21. Notes on the Moral and Political Degradation of America
  22. Enough
  23. Citygroup Roulette
  24. The Economic Cyle of Innovation in Brief
  25. The Bill of Indictment
  26. Knowing your interests
  27. Ouch
  28. Democratic Strategy
  29. The Flashcard Version
  30. Parliamentary Politics in a non Parliamentary System
  31. Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh On Virtually Speaking 9pm EST Thursday December 10th
  32. Where the Economy Stands and Where It’s Going
  33. George Bush’s 3rd Term
  34. Hell No Dems Won’t Vote
  35. Much Better than expected job figures
  36. Cutting Through the Public Option BS
  37. Bernanke at the Jobs Summit
  38. One Reason I don’t carry a cell everywhere
  39. The President’s Afghanistan Speech

November 2009

  1. The Surge in Afghanistan
  2. 40% of Dems likely to not vote in 2010
  3. The Real Question isn’t about Summers Judgment
  4. The Progressive Brand
  5. Dubai’s Problems and America’s
  6. The Mod Society
  7. The rule of Bush applies to Obama and Congressional Democrats
  8. About Freaking Time
  9. British Columbia’s Salmon Stock Collapses
  10. The China Syndrome
  11. Versailles Thinking
  12. Yes there is a solution to California’s budget woes and no there isn’t a solution
  13. JPMorgan Illustrates What Banks Do When They Have Money
  14. What Would Be Required For Full Employment
  15. The Catholic Church in DC threatens to not do unto Jesus
  16. Rebooting the financial casino
  17. Oh hey, look at that: Republicans ahead on Generic ballot
  18. In Flanders Fields
  19. Dodd Fumbles Reform
  20. Health Care Reform Update: Who’s Selling Out and Why
  21. DCBlogger Needs Help
  22. Destroying the Democratic Majority
  23. Reality is Liberal And Rewards Liberal Policy
  24. Doing a Stimulus Right and Wrong
  25. Meet the “Good Americans” Who Made America Synonymous With Torture

October 2009

  1. Obsession: Geniuses, Generalists and Specialists
  2. Consumers Can’t Choose Not to Do Business
  3. Dancing with the devil while whistling past the graveyard
  4. Republicans Now More Trusted than Democrats on Every Issue
  5. Miscellaneous Quick Hits
  6. The Fed and the Pay Czar’s Executive Compensation Restriction Plans
  7. Actually 1930s solutions stopped financial crises for decades and would work now
  8. Corrected: Support for Public Option (Does Not) Collapse If Real Public Option Polled
  9. Yes, Health “Reform” is a Clusterf*** and those pushing for it are being taken
  10. Pakistan Army assault on Warziristan Taliban forces begins
  11. Confusion over what government does
  12. The one post on Goldman Sachs you NEED to read
  13. Perhaps record bonuses and no new lending is what Obama wanted
  14. Central Banks put 63% of New Money into Euros and Yen
  15. Yes Virginia, Americans are fat as a group
  16. Summers breaks his arm patting himself on the back
  17. Andrew Sullivan’s Apology Reads Right To Me
  18. What Not Buying Oil With Dollars Means
  19. There’s a phrase for modern PR techniques…
  20. That Horrible Canadian Health Insurance System
  21. The Reason Insurance Company Execs aren’t Scared of the Public Option

September 2009

  1. Iranian Nuclear Hysteria
  2. The West Drives Iran Into China’s Arms
  3. McChrystal continues to undercut Obama
  4. Corrente Needs Money
  5. The Problem With Healthcare Reform Isn’t the American People
  6. Left Wing Self-Defeatism And How To Win
  7. Meet the New Boss
  8. Welcome to The Long Grey Suck
  9. Obama Explains the “Rules of Reform”
  10. Comparing the House Bill’s Cost to the Baucus Proposal
  11. On Labor Day Weep for Labor
  12. Public Option Won’t Reduce Costs
  13. 216,000 Jobs Lost in August, Unemployment up .3% to 9.7%
  14. Restructuring America’s Military
  15. Some inconvenient truths
  16. Whoever could have predicted Obama would sell even a nominal Public Option out?
  17. Spare Me The Tears: Liberal Activists Aren’t Showing Up For Obama and Democrats Because of Democratic Decisions

August 2009

  1. Um Yeah, TARP is “profitable”
  2. The American Eagle Trap: Why a weak dollar won’t save America
  3. What Japan’s Change In Government Means for the US
  4. No Banks Means No Banking Crisis
  5. The Last Liberal Lion
  6. Road to Ruin: Bernanke’s Reappointment is just the status quo
  7. The moral case against a plan without a good public option
  8. Bloggers et al notice that Republicans can win in 2010 and 2012
  9. Shorter Sebelius: Welcome to a regressive tax which will rise faster than wages or inflation
  10. Off to Netroots Nation
  11. Congress helps their friend get healthcare while China announces universal healthcare
  12. Fear Techniques wouldn’t work nearly as well on “Medicare for all”
  13. Miscellania: Healthcare, Unemployment, Resistance and Obama
  14. Off To Victoria, BC

July 2009

  1. Republicans pull nearly even on Congressional vote numbers
  2. What’s More Important Than Saving American Lives? Almost Everything
  3. Why Can’t Progressives Lobby Or Fundraise Effectively?
  4. If Pharma is for health care reform…
  5. The China Syndrome: what the current talks with China tell us about America’s situation
  6. Why High Frequency Trading needs to be ended and how to do it
  7. Finding Common Ground Between Public Option Advocates and Single Payer Advocates
  8. What the Public Option MUST Have To Work
  9. Bait and Switch on Public Option?
  10. Republicans operate as if in a parliamentary system
  11. How insurance works and why private insurance costs more than universal government insurance
  12. Why I’m pessimistic on health reform and the argument for doing it anyway
  13. How stupid do they think we are? (Executive Compensation edition)
  14. Why health care reform isn’t: part II-the bought and paid for Congress
  15. The Gates Conundrum: Racism or Police “Authority”
  16. The Compromised President and Congress: Why this health care bill probably won’t reduce costs
  17. Bottom Line On the Financial Sector: fewer bigger companies and a repeat of the financial crisis
  18. Insurers engaged in systematic price fixing
  19. Insurers engaged in systematic price fixing
  20. Goldman Sachs Nominee Bob Hormats Helped Fund Sudan Genocide
  21. State Revenues Took Biggest Hit On Record During First Quarter
  22. Obama to blogs: Help!
  23. Because Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Have Enough Influence In Government
  24. Americans Lives vs. Insurance Company Profits: the real battle in healthcare reform
  25. The Credit Addicts Dilemma: Why the US is hemorrhaging good manufacturing jobs
  26. Health Care Costs Part 1: The Single Payor Challenge To the Public Option
  27. Memory Lane on the Paulson/Goldman Stickup: What I wrote Sept 20, 2008 and why it matters today
  28. If the American Medical Association is for something…
  29. Denying Care Till Profitability: How Insurance Companies Can Force Sick People Onto the Public Plan
  30. The American Choice: Break up and regulate companies or suffer another crisis
  31. Goldman Sachs is a Problem and the Symptom of a Worse Problem
  32. The House Plan May Gut Employer Offered Insurance
  33. Posting at Open Left From Wednesday July 15th to July 29th
  34. A Republic if you can keep it

June 2009

  1. Gay Pride
  2. Sanford
  3. The Gore Gutlessness Lesson for Mousavi
  4. Senate Democrats Against The Public Option Aren’t Caving They Just Don’t Belive In Real Universal Healthcare
  5. Senate Finance Committee: We’re Going to Make You Buy Bad Insurance With No Public Option
  6. Priorities
  7. Bailout Nation Book Salon at FDL
  8. Some Questions About Consumer Spending
  9. Anti-Abortion Terrorism Chalks Up Another Success
  10. Job Report: Better than expected
  11. Bankruptcies Due to Healthcare Costs up to 60%
  12. The Cost Of Forgetting Life Before Roe

May 2009

  1. One Third of All Late Term Abortion Doctors Killed Today
  2. The Next Bailout: Guaranteeing Municipal Bonds
  3. Understanding Through Empathy
  4. The Arrogance of Atheism
  5. Sotomayor – Nothing Special, But Not Awful
  6. Star Trek
  7. In Memoriam
  8. Glenn Greenwald Hammers Preventative Detention
  9. How Owning Genetic Materials Drives Farmers Into Bankruptcy and Suicide
  10. The Thought Crimes President
  11. Disrespecting the Poor
  12. Who Are the Radicals? Hamas, or America?
  13. The consequences of (yet again) failing to stand up to the banks
  14. Obama Bypassed the A-List Rather Than Co-Opting It
  15. On Mothers Day: Caging a Nightingale
  16. Long Term Treasury Rates Rise: Why?
  17. Central Bank Inflation Targeting Wasn’t Quite the Problem
  18. Iraq’s Papered Over Problems Flare Up As the Iraqi Endgame Starts
  19. The FDIC Is Levying Money From Banks To Spend: Not For “Confidence”
  20. One Reason Why Some Men Treat Women So Badly
  21. The Chrysler Bankruptcy May Not Be As Smooth As Hoped

April 2009

  1. Garrison Keillor: Don’t Prosecute Torture and Make the Trains Run On Time
  2. US To Take Majority GM Stake, United Auto Workers Get 38%
  3. Why Pakistan’s Decline Is Almost Inevitable
  4. Evaluating Geithner’s Stress Test
  5. What Every Liberal Needs To Learn From A Conservative Parent
  6. 17 Year Olds To Be Allowed Plan B: Why Not 12 Year Olds
  7. 4.1 Trillion of Losses?
  8. Is Comparing America to Germany Absurd?
  9. American Experiment RIP
  10. What Obama’s Refusal to Investigate Torture Reveals About America
  11. Big Brother is Watching
  12. Good Policy Rule #1: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
  13. Afk
  14. Bank Profits And the The Choice America Has Made
  15. Just the Facts, Ma’am
  16. Pakistani Taliban Move to Within 60 Miles Of Islamabad
  17. How To Defeat the Somali Pirates
  18. The difference in opinion about whether the Geithner Plan will work is not about “faith”
  19. Oil And Other Commodity Prices Continue To Rise
  20. WTF!? Stress Tests Prove that Banks Fine, Just Need More Bailouts
  21. Virginia Republicans Reject Stimulus UI Money
  22. The Iraq Awakening Showdown
  23. Can’t You See! Can’t You See?
  24. IMF Now Estimates Losses To Grow To 4 Trillion
  25. American Voters Approve of Force Against North Korea: AKA American Voters Are Fools
  26. Elizabeth Warren: Finally someone with a clue how to handle the financial crisis
  27. Libby: Washington December 2006
  28. Power and Gender
  29. I’m Sure There’s a Difference Between the Bush/Paulson, Obama/Geithner Approaches to Bailouts
  30. Devestatingly Bad Jobs Report
  31. Did AIG Never Intend to Pay Off Most Collateralized Debt Swaps?
  32. The End of Israel?
  33. To Be or Not To Be A Sheep
  34. The Personal Politics of Hopelessness
  35. Netanyahu’s Delusional Desire to Attack Iran

March 2009

  1. How ‘Bout Treating Palestinians Like Equal Human Beings
  2. Next Time, Listen
  3. The Velvet Glove Comes Off For Carmakers As Obama Threatens Them With Bankruptcy
  4. What to Watch For In Obama’s Financial Sector Reforms
  5. Firms Want To Keep Their Subsidies and Their Huge Salaries and Bonuses
  6. The Market is Not The Economy
  7. The Financial Crisis is Not a Black Swan Event
  8. Meanwhile In Canada the Stimulus Has Already Failed
  9. Chuck “AIG should commit suicide” Grassley voted to repeal Glass-Steagall
  10. How To Reform Credit Default Swaps
  11. Reinstituting Glass-Steagall: the only way to fix financial markets
  12. Geithner Plan Already Being Abused by Citibank and Bank of America
  13. Afghanistan is Lost Because Pakistan Can’t Be Fixed
  14. The Geithner Plan’s Unpleasant Consequences
  15. There Was a Class War. The Rich Won.
  16. Senator Specter To Oppose the Employee Free Choice Act
  17. Homeland “Security” Costs $50 Billion… for what?
  18. Does the Geithner Plan Reduce Credit Default Swap Risk Too?
  19. Market Rallies On News of Trillion Dollar Giveaway
  20. Employee Free Choice Threatened by New Lobbying Campaign
  21. The AIG Bonus Clawback Bill Won’t Work But Here’s What Will
  22. More Details On Geithner’s Plan
  23. News Flash for Fox News: Canada Doesn’t Need the US For Security
  24. Brits Attempt to Snoop On Everything And Tell Anyone
  25. Krugman Song
  26. Why Financial Crises Will Keep Happening
  27. The Executive Coup
  28. Launching Ian Welsh’s Blog

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