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MIA Concourse F Evacuated
(CBS4) MIAMI Thousands of people have been evacuated from Concourse F at Miami International airports after a possible explosive device was reported to have been discovered byt airport screeners. People are standing in the roadway outside the terminal while the situation is investigated.

Details are sketchy, but traffic to and from the airport apparently has not been halted, as passengers are allowed to go to and from other concourses. From Chopper 4, police could be seen directing buses and vehicle traffic away from the roadways immediately in front of the concourse.

Airlines with service at Concourse F include Aeropostal, Air France, Avianca, Sun Country, Swiss International, Mexicana, and United.

Passengers can be seen, many with luggage, gathered beyond the vehicle lanes at the airport/

There was no immediate word on what affect the shutdown would have on the flights leaving from and arriving at that concourse.

dg

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_197065041.html

MIA Concourse F Evacuated
(CBS4) MIAMI Thousands of people have been evacuated from Concourse F at Miami International airports after a possible explosive device was reported to have been discovered byt airport screeners. People are standing in the roadway outside the terminal while the situation is investigated.

Details are sketchy, but traffic to and from the airport apparently has not been halted, as passengers are allowed to go to and from other concourses. From Chopper 4, police could be seen directing buses and vehicle traffic away from the roadways immediately in front of the concourse.

Airlines with service at Concourse F include Aeropostal, Air France, Avianca, Sun Country, Swiss International, Mexicana, and United.

Passengers can be seen, many with luggage, gathered beyond the vehicle lanes at the airport/

There was no immediate word on what affect the shutdown would have on the flights leaving from and arriving at that concourse.

dg

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_197065041.html

I thought it was awesome.

www.princeton.edu/~blinder/

Alan S. Blinder has been on the Princeton faculty since 1971, taking time off from January 1993 through January 1996 for service in the U.S. government—first as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his academic writings [books, academic articles] and his best-selling introductory textbook, he has written many newspaper and magazine columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has presented a monthly television commentary on PBS’s Nightly Business Report [PBS commentaries]. He also appears regularly on CNBC. Dr. Blinder is a past president of the Eastern Economic Association, past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Isn't this one of the economic geniuses from the Clinton days? Google him and you will find him linked to all sorts of liberal causes and philosophies (like being a signer of an academic petition to increase the minimum wage... after all every economists knows that all you have to do is force employers to pay more money and you will create more wealth... and jobs for that matter!).. Nothing he says is apolitical, this is a shot across the bow -- prob Hillary's upcoming weekly theme.

"Outstanding debt issued in the euro was worth the equivalent of $4,836bn at the end of 2006 compared with $3,892bn for the dollar, according to International Capital Market Association data."

Just so everyone has the facts (not that this is something to brag about)

I think they are taking debt issuance for the year, not aggregate outstanding value. European debt tends to be shorter tenor so of course you are going to see more issuance as more guys are coming to the watering hole each year to replace maturing debt. The US Bond market is north of 20 trillion dollars. In addition, the figure for the US seems small in the article...

A few facts from the BMA -
1,800bn Municipal Bonds
3,100bn Treasurys
2,300bn Agency Bonds
4,000bn Corporate Bonds
2,500bn Money Markets
4,000bn Mortgage (Agency)
584bn Private Label Mortgage
1,500bn Asset Backed Securities
19,784bn Total

http://www.investinginbonds.com/MarketAtAGlance.asp?catid=31&id=78

So Ronery! Is Alec Baldwin's Film Actors Guild organizing the event?

Compared to his computer-programmer brother and college student sister, he sees himself as the ugly duckling.

"To be honest, all I've done so far is pretty rubbish. I chose the easiest path, a useless high-school certificate in sales. And I've got a criminal record (for driving a stolen car) -- I regret that."

"I can't just stack shelves for the rest of my life! That was for our parents who'd just arrived here, and had no choice," he said, referring to his father's job as a maintenance worker.

"My friends and I, we were born here -- we shouldn't be labelled and pushed to one side. That's why we won't let ourselves be walked all over."

Socialism rots the brain

Wasn't Bob Beckel involved in an internet sex scandal several years ago? Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Yes he was:


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/beckel1.html

The best is the guy with the small patch of gauze on the back of his head lying on the gurney with his legs crossed as he talks to the camera man. It could almost be a Corona ad.

BS Call, but they should have pulled pope after the first US red card. This ref has it in for US.

So, what makes anyone think private employers are equipped and able to take on a job that the federal, state and local governments can't or won't do?

Truthfully, I think you throw a few white collar executives in jail for gross misconduct, toss in one or two franchise owners and you are 90% of the way there... It would raise the 'cost' of immigrant labor, which would help reduce incentives.

The feds then need to crack down on states that hand out taxpayer dollars like candy. Federal dollars should in no way support states that turn around and then give that Money away. Any fungible dollars should be taken from said states and block granted to ICE as additional enforcement dollars for that state. Once the state wakes up they can have their money back.

Is China locking in these prices by making all these deals now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizyah

Damn Dutch bigots. Everyone knows that infidels must pay the Jizyah.

Is he insuffiently qualified to study this issue?

No, did I say he was?

Is he insuffiently qualified to study this issue?

No, did I say he was?

miscaracterizing = mischaracterizing

1st -- realize that this is a contributed editorial from Robert Scrivner @ Harvard... Also, just because wages may not be seemingly impacted, since some legal citizen is not working at all AND the wage is lower the overall impact should be worse just by simple averages... You just have to include the Legal that isn't working at a wage of 0$/hr... Their study doesn't seem to factor this in...

Also, to be fair to the author I think you are miscaracterizing the conclusion a bit... Re-Read the last paragraph..:

National wage trends confirm the common-sense notion that immigration has labor market consequences: A larger pool of competing workers lowers relative wages. This does not imply that immigration is a net loss for the economy. After all, the wage losses suffered by workers show up as higher profits to employers and, eventually, as lower prices to consumers. Immigration policy is just another redistribution program. In the short run, it transfers wealth from one group (workers) to another (employers). Whether or not such transfers are desirable is one of the central questions in the immigration debate.

The republican failure of rhetoric in this debate up till now has been that they basically concede that illegal immigration is a victimless crime, where it's true victims are America's poor.

If the govt is going to tax/regulate the living hell out of businesses then allowing illegals to fill in the gap and undercut American workers is not fair. If companies had to deduct payroll taxes and comply with all federal regs it would 'increase the cost' of illegal labor. Paying an American citizen under the table is called evading taxes, paying an illegal under the table is considered 'rational???'...

I am almost to the point where I would like to see the govt offer to pay a bounty (say 1/2 the fine per worker) to any lawyer which uncovers a company that is guilty of fueling this fire. Take the remainder of the fine and give it to ICE. The bureaucracy would then feed itself... We should all remember that much of this is supply side driven...

Frankly this is actually quite a disturbing policy if they intend to release names along with compensation. Not only does it possibly put people at risk, but it puts companies at risk as the market price for their top execs is shown bare to their competition (think wall street).

Fine, pull back the hummers that protect his home tonight, just before dusk and come back the next morning...

tinned ham?