December 2009
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New Year’s Resolutions from the Nation's Capital
As the New Year commences, millions of Americans are committing to an objective or course of action intended to better their health, or their lives or the lives of others, as they seek to actualize their New Year’s Resolution. The 2010 crop of New Year Resolutions emitting from Washington, D.C. conveys the wide range of interests & concerns among the denizens of our Nation’s Capital....
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Heat Rises In Copenhagen As Cap & Trade Deemed Too...
Delegates Trade Caps Instead
(Tweetering on Spaceface from Dopenhagen)
An Outside The (Cardboard) Box Exclusive - Stymied by Emerging Nations’ insistence that they cede their entire economies to the Third World, Industrialized Nations are finding the Copenhagen Global Climate Framework ’too inconvenient’ to ratify. “While we can certainly appreciate their thinking on this serious...
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U.S. Workforce Disappearing At Alarming Rate
Economists Concerned They Will Be ‘Left Behind’
After a careful review of BLS Employment Data, Outside The (Cardboard) Box analysts have determined that the U.S. workforce is shrinking at an inexplicable rate. Available census data indicates that the U.S. population is still expanding. Under normal conditions this would lead to an increase in the available labor pool. However BLS data confirms...
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Tax Officials Detect Widespread Tax Fraud in U.S....
Mass Audits Planned
(Washington, D.C.) National Tax Officials believe they have detected a new & widespread tax avoidance scheme rampant among America’s middle-class. Perceived by some as ‘Case Zero’ of what may come to be viewed as one of the most incredible tax cases in U.S. history, the investigation of Rachel Porcaro, a single mother of two boys living in Seattle and working as a...
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Extreme Makeover: WaPo Edition
*Editors Note – Normally things are fairly relaxed here @ the Outside The (Cardboard) Box Global Headquarters Shed. However a recent piece in the Washington Post has staffers here as mad as hornets. As a result, today’s post contains an abundance of graphic & unseemly language. Further reflecting the currently high level of agitation here @ OTCB, there are no accompanying pictures, graphs,...
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BLS Said To Be Using New Data Adjustment Model
Outside The (Cardboard) Box is disseminating a startling rumor that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed a new adjustment model to be applied to their monthly Employment Data report that will show a radically improved national jobs picture. Dubbed the ‘Twofer’, the model is intended to reflect better the changing nature of work in the U.S.
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An individual speaking on condition of...
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7 Black Swans a Swimming
While a so-called “Black Swan” event is by definition an unlikely yet extremely impactful event, ample consideration is given to ‘conventional’ improbable outlier occurrences in Finance. Websites such as Financial Armageddon, The Housing Time Bomb and The Coming Great Depression are prominent among hundreds on the Internet who devote considerable attention to what many in the mainstream deem...