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Dear Mr. Obama: Interest is the “penalty” for borrowing money.

In President Obama’s push for a “fee” on banks to recoup losses from the TRAP plan.  He and his administration continue to confuse economics and with wealth redistribution and to play pretty loose with the facts.  Let’s look at this speech in a little more detail.

Losses in TARP plan.

These losses are not caused [...]

100 days now what?

It has now been 100 days and the DOW hovers just over 8000.   Layoffs continue.   President Obama’s stated budget will dwarf all deficits ever recorded.   There is no hope in stopping in in Congress and they are likley to add more of their own projects to it.  At that is just the downpayment as we [...]