“The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.” LittlesDoePlansCostDirectStressDebtReliefResolveInvestorsHouseholdSevereDisgraceRecklessTaxpayersBankersStressedTreasuryLendersBailoutsMeltdownsBorrowers Author:Nouriel Roubini
“Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.” ChildrenHomeAirCostEssentialsTasksVariousBreatheExpectedHouseholdAttendingRearing A Child Book:Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today Source: Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today
“If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.” IfsLooksKidsEnergyTermEconomicEmotionalHigherCostBasesFarmersEducateMechanismHouseholdProvidingExpendituresFinancingDelta Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.” BookPlayProgressCenturyAmountCoupleCostIncrediblesPoundsHouseholdPilgrim17th CenturyShakespeare Play Author:Stephen Greenblatt