Exxon Mobile, the world’s biggest publicly traded company (no offense, VW) today announced their biggest US quarterly profit EVER. With the way the economy has been working it’s course this year, as the biggest banks are either going under or are being taken over, thousands are being forced... 

I came across this rather cool analogy of our economics elsewhere, but since that link is now password protected, I figured I’d “mirror” it here while still giving credit to the (original?) post: Our Tax System Explained: “Bar Stool Economics” Suppose that every day, ten...