advanced search

7 matches for 'mistake'

• Credit card’s newest trick: 79.9% interest

  —Delusional Duck

  It’s no mistake. This credit card’s interest rate is 79.9%. The bloated APR is how First Premier Bank, a subprime credit card issuer, is skirting new regulations intended to curb abusive practices in the industry. It’s a strategy other subprime card issuers could start adopting to get around the new rules. Typically, [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:09pm EST
  

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Delusional Duck' this week

• GORE REFUSES TO CORRECT MISTAKES

  —Baltimore Reporter

  from Not Evil Just Wrong Al Gore’s errors and exaggerations seem to just keep piling up: Al Gore’s Arctic Ice Exaggeration Al Gore was caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar when he announced that all Arctic ice could be gone in 5 years. Too bad the scientist he was [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:36pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Baltimore Reporter' this week

• Correction: Sherman Alexie is an Ignorant Enema

  —Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis

  Number of comments: 4
  Never let it be said I don’t correct my mistakes. A few months back I tore into author Sherman Alexie for delivering a foolish and misguided rant about the evil’s of e-books in general and the Kindle in particular. Considering how relatively low-profile my blog is, you can imagine my surprise [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:56am EST
  by Kevin Waterman

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis' this week

• Friday Morning News, 12/4/09

  —Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog

  Snow is in the forecast for Saturday.

  Kweisi Mfume and former Mayor Kurt Schmoke have both recommended Mayor Sheila Dixon apologize, but she has yet to do so. The same article points out that crisis PR specialists are saying that she is making a mistake by remaining quiet. Don’t [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by Jeff Quinton

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog' this week

• Economic Growth, Part I: Keynesian Economics Does Not Work

  —Baltimore Reporter

  from Big Government The White House recently began claiming that the “Recovery Act” had “created or saved” 640,000-plus jobs. This was a political mistake, since the “jobs saved” measure allows for creative accounting. But the White House also erred by providing (supposed) details, making it very easy for reporters to [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:47pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Baltimore Reporter' this week

• The conservative roadshow

  —monoblogue

  I can’t figure out what the Washington Post was afraid of – diversity of thought? But they wouldn’t publish this, so it’s up to you to decide whether it was my mistake for submitting this there or theirs for not running it. I kept it right on their self-imposed 800 word limit.

  Last [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Michael

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'monoblogue' this week

• Now It's Your Turn

  —Maryland Moment

  Well, technically, it's still the jury's turn. But they were dismissed until Monday, so let's debate this for the weekend: Would you convict Mayor Sheila Dixon? Her attorneys have argued the Baltimore mayor mistakenly used gift cards for the needy, thinking they were from her ex-boyfriend. Prosecutors say she knew [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  

  — about this blog

  — blogs linking 'Maryland Moment' this week