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Jeff, a little FYI. We know when something's going to happen, we just don't know where. If the tension on the plates hadn't been relieved here in Japan, it would've been relieved somewhere else along the faultline. Could've been much further north, or farther south, near tokyo. We just don't know. Stretch out a rubber band, jeff. Keep stretching it until it breaks. After enough broken car tax bands, you'll have an idea of how far you can pull it before it breaks... but you'll be no closer to predicting More

IIt seems to me Mr. Inskeep has made a solid case for terminating public funding for NPR.NPR's quality is such that it has captured a broad base of listeners that spans the poliitcal spectrum. Why would an entity that has grown to become so successful require public funding? NPR has grown up and it is time to leave the nest. I am a conserative who listens to NPR. When the IRS stops withholding money from my paycheck to support NPR, I will seriously consider my firs withholding calculatort ever More

Discover needs to 2012 tax refund calculator his money immediately, or Mr. Christopher should engage a really smart lawyer. Discover says he approved the fee in a phone call? Prove it through phone records. They can't. I bet a judge would be glad to hit them with an order of repayment plus attorney's fees and a decent sized damage payment to encourage them not to do something like that again. Oh, and Mr. Christopher should also make a complaint to his state's Attorney General's office and any other More

Henry,---there were never any intentions by Obama and the Democrats to pay down the debt by eliminating the Bush tax extension 2012 cuts! More revenue into the federal coffers would immediately have been spent by the Obama administration on more wealth redistribution and their favorite big union cronies! Obama is a Socialist and wants only ever bigger government and ever more power by the government to control everyone's life and have everyone dependent on the government! One thing Repubs should More

Well done. It would be interesting to tie the number of votes you get to the 2012 tax brackets bracket you are in. And for the 47% who don't pay income tax but sponge off the rest of us who are penalized for success, wouldn't it be interesting if they got one vote and we got 2. That might be the only way to turn this country around and make everyone have 'skin in the game' by paying at least SOME level of income tax to 'spread he responsbility around instead of the wealth'. Think of how fast we'd More

Sara Murray - you need to research how Social Security works so you won't make stupid comments about checks not going out. The Social Security Administration hold several trillion dollars worth of treasury bonds that they are authorized to sell to meet their obligations. They have been doing that for several years as the money coming in from social security tax rate security taxes is no longer enough to cover current obligations. They won't run out of treasury bonds for several more years. The More

andreas again, past history of the financial crisis is now of purely academic interest. bottom line is credit crisis have happened before, and will happen again. as to CDS being unregulated.... if the bankers weren't smart enough to prevent the crash, you think barney frank can? we're on the wrong course with the deficit spending and the thougta san andreas cheats pcds of pages of new regs. all that dodd-frank actually accomplished is institutionalize too-big-to-fail, and further distort risk assessment More