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...practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, likening the act of strapping a person down and forcing tubes up their noses and into their stomachs to torture. Earlier this year, military officials told the New York Times that nearly one-fifth of all Gitmo prisoners were being force-fed at any given time...
...would not settle with the government and Chrysler are appropriately greedy. The money that they put into Chrysler debt came from pension funds and individual investors in many cases. It is not as if Citigroup (C) is the debtor left holding the check. Citigroup could, at least, petition the Fed to get back any money it lost on its Chrysler investment...
...vanity of the Fed, the Treasury, and those building the budget in Congress and the Administration is not that they refuse to doubt that the fruits of their work will remake the economy; It is that they will not admit that the economy has even the smallest chance of remaking itself. That, in a phrase, is what is at the heart of the debate over how the recession will end and why. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...People who believed in the power of institutions like the Fed and Treasury will lose their faith and become embittered as time passes and the economy does not show signs of substantial improvement. That is a shame because it means that they will have needlessly turned their back on the concept that there is power in self-sufficiency...
Instructive, but we're still talking about burgers. What makes the Snyders' story worth reading is that it's as much cultural history as corporate. The company evolved in perfect sync with postwar Southern California, whose car culture and highway-fed suburbs blossomed as In-N-Out was building the first drive-throughs...