Wednesday, September 22, 2010

FOXNews.com - The Fed worries about something unusual: Inflation may actually be too low

FOXNews.com - The Fed worries about something unusual: Inflation may actually be too low: "Once deflation takes hold, it can wreck an economy. Workers suffer pay cuts. Corporate profits shrivel. Stock values fall. People, businesses and the government find it costlier to pare debt. Foreclosures and bankruptcies rise.

And people spend less, convinced that prices will fall even further if they just wait. That trend has already emerged in the housing market. Many would-be buyers are standing on the sidelines, waiting for home prices to fall further."

The electronics industry has constant deflation, everyone knows that, and it works just fine. Deflation isn't the problem that it is made out to be but the government benefits from inflation, so they paint deflation as evil.

FOXNews.com - Panel: School Discriminated Against Transgender 6th Grader by Not Letting Student Use Girls' Room

FOXNews.com - Panel: School Discriminated Against Transgender 6th Grader by Not Letting Student Use Girls' Room: "The Maine Human Rights Commission has ruled that a middle school discriminated against a sixth grader by not letting the male-to-female transgender student use the girls' bathroom.

The parents of the child, who no longer attends school in the district, wrote to the commission that she experienced anxiety and depression during the 2008-2009 year after Orono Middle School officials forced her to use a gender-neutral bathroom and her peers picked on her.

The school stated the district trained the staff, educated students, gave the transgender student her own bathroom and locker, and met with her parents."

A separate bathroom seems like a very good solution.