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Fortune's Allan Sloan, a longtime journalistic master of tax and accounting, does what he does best and tries to take apart the "bailouts." His conclusion: The government looks like it's going to make money on its interventions in 2008 and 2009, a story best told by Sloan himself. The piece has stirred up some heat. Sloan has to make a number of assumptions -- many of which he admits to -- and definitions to arrive at an approximate figure. One of the biggest surprises is the fact that the Federal Reserve is actually making money on the $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities it bought in 2008-2009 and the $600 billion in Treasuries it acquired in 2010-2011, both of which were part of Quantitative Easing I and II. Although Sloan admits they're popularly known as "stimulus," he considers them part of the bailout because the purchases were designed to stabilize credit markets. The result: The Fed's bigger balance sheet has produced what Sloan calls "profit" of $102 billion, which the central banks sends to Treasury at year's end.

Some of this was known. The Financial Times' Gillian Tett ran through the numbers on the Troubled Asset Relief Program a few months ago and concluded that it was both successful and profitable. But as Sloan points out, based on his assumptions, TARP amounted to only about 3% of the "bailouts."



Sloan admits these numbers are rough. "Our accounting is unconventional because in some places we count what has happened, in some places we project what's likely to happen, and in some places we've done our own numbers because no others exist," he writes. "If things break right, taxpayers could come out $100 billion ahead: our $42 billion profit estimate, plus a $25 billion reduction in the Fannie/Freddie cost, $25 billion more in Fed profits, and a reduction in the $19 billion expense we're showing for TARP." But while he recounts bailout negatives -- moral hazard and the sense the government was picking winners and losers (saving creditors, letting taxpayers suffer) -- he still concludes it was necessary. "But something needed to be done when the financial world was on the brink of the abyss, and the government did something. No matter what your views are, you should be happy that taxpayers, almost miraculously, are coming out ahead rather than hundreds of billions of dollars behind."



Sloan's piece comes off as smart and sensible, if admittedly open to argument on the details. He clearly meant it as a corrective to one of the great idée fixes of the age: That not only were the bailouts a colossal waste of taxpayer funds but that they were actually the problem; without the bailouts, which are popularly thought to have ballooned the deficit and sucked life from the economy, everything would have been fine, except some shady banks and plutocrats would have had to suffer. The bailouts were expressly designed to save rich people.



And herein lies the real lesson of this solid piece of financial journalism: the reaction. On Monday morning, Sloan's piece had attracted 24 pages of comments and counting. A few of them either accepted Sloan's argument or praised Fortune for attempting the analysis in the first place. The rest of them were, in the usual fashion of Web comments, fiercely negative, ad hominem, prone to digression or brutally dismissive. In general, politics trumps any kind of rational argument. Bailouts are viewed as a kind of political sellout, and thus anyone who offers support -- even to suggest they were necessary to avoid a deeper cataclysm -- is shouted down. Many of the commenters can't seem to believe that anyone, certainly not Sloan, can separate their political selves from their analysis. Although it's murky, Sloan is depicted as a lover of Wall Street, a "Rightwing zealot," a member of the "power elite." They argue that Sloan doesn't care about taxpayers or homeowners or, for that matters, the dangers of too-big-to-fail. Or they don't argue at all. "I'm not going to spend time deliberating this story," wrote one commenter. "I'll just say it's laughable at best. Cheers!"



Now, of course, complaining about the incivility of Internet comments is a very old story. But what does emerge from so many of the commenters is (a) a deepening of anger to anything that conflicts with a deeply conspiratorial worldview bordering on the apocalyptic (fed presumably by the game of chicken taking place in Washington and by a lagging economy) and (b) a view of the world on both left and right that simply ignores even the basics of economic analysis. Last week, The Atlantic tackled Frank Rich's attack on President Obama in New York magazine, "Obama's Original Sin," by questioning the thesis that the president's failure to rein in Wall Street somehow hurt job creation. Thompson was civil, calm and, at least in part, complimentary to Rich's talents; and in fact Rich's long and impassioned essay made a number of sweeping assertions that were belied by basic economics. In the comments, Thompson was ridiculed, criticized and belittled. At best, he was characterized as naïve; at worst, he was told that "this article reek [sic] of brown-nosing to the financial plutocracy and plain dishonesty. When it comes to econ and finance, The Atlantic appears to be willing to sink lower than CNBC ..."



Such is the world we live in. If you operate on the Internet, you deal with the comments. A few things should be noted, however. It has grown increasingly difficult to separate out the extreme right-wing Tea Party type from the left-wing Progressive zealot. Often, the only way to discriminate is when they launch an attack on "communists" (right) or Fox (left). In particular, notably after Rich's essay, the insults against Obama from the left were nearly as virulent as from the right; many of them also featured a striking racial subtext. Second, there seems to be an increasing disengagement from any kind of economic reality that I recognize -- a rejection of any complexity or nuance that alters the picture or that smacks of elitism. The real enemy increasingly seems to be anyone occupying a position in the middle, which is viewed as the black heart of corruption and self-deception. Thus Sloan and Thompson are easily characterized as tools of the plutocracy. This is a sad state to find ourselves.

A version of this column is scheduled to be published in The Washington Times, Monday, July 11, 2011.

Follow the Money No. 74: Charlie Chaplin’s suit?

The geopolitical question of the hour: is there a tripwire that will tie together a series of regional crises bringing on another 2007-08 worldwide economic disaster?

Lehman Brothers’ collapse dramatized how enhanced interconnections can tumble through the new world economy with domino effect. But if the world finance mavim know a seminal interrelation of our several bubbling crises, they are not telling us. Meanwhile, the minitheaters percolate:

Europe –There’s growing consensus Greece’s economic collapse is leading to a restructuring of the European Union’s finances with more than 20% of the world’s gross product. Shooting the messenger – the growing attacks on rating agencies which, indeed, are feeding debilitating increases in the cost of debt – doesn’t solve the problem nor do complicated if band-aid solutions. Nor, does it seem likely to this observer, creation of a Eurobond market to absorb growing debt would automatically bring about inspired, problem-solving central European fiscal and monetary direction. [It didn’t with creation of the Euro “common currency”.]

The U.S. – However much the Obama Administration’s stimulus program staved off an even worse crisis – to be argued until the end of the economists’ time, not soon contrary to John Maynard Keynes hopeful prediction the profession would die out – it has run out its string. Public opinion demands curbing deficit spending. But how against pressures of “special interests” [yours’ always are, mine are heaven blessed] is a conundrum taxing the American political system. It‘s a time when parliamentary government – with its ability to bring down a cabinet’s failed strategy instantaneously – is envied. Instead, more than a year’s political mudslinging appears inevitably producing near paralysis. Meanwhile despite widespread denials – including fudging with inventions like “core inflation” – higher prices could couple with stubborn underdemployment/unemployment and an unresolved housing bubble for increasing misery.

China – The cracks, long seen by the few who questioned sustainability of the miracle of “the world’s factory”, are widening. Beijing central planners – despite their rationale only rapid growth could legitimate “Communism with Chinese characteristics” by providing jobs and stability -- have curbed unlimited infrastructure expansion which with now slowing exports was the engine of growth. “Creative accounting” takes on new meaning for government banks hiding “non-performing loans” in new set-aside organs now making their own bad loans. Beijing’s inability to “feed” local Party hacks leads them to “squeeze” workers and farmers in turn leading to growing violence. Inflation, especially food where most Chinese live, grows despite monetary devices borrowed from Western systems largely ineffective on what still is a Soviet skeleton.

Japan – The world’s third largest economic power drifts, mysteriously bereft of political leadership, caricatured in its inability to address the destruction of the earthquake-tsunami with characteristic “Yamato Damishi” [fortitude]. In Japan’s hot, muggy summer, only 19 of 54 reactors are operating in the face of anti-nuclear sentiment. With more to shut down, cutbacks of 15% already haunt large electricity customers and boosts expensive fossil fuel imports. Consumer confidence falls to record lows, ominous for Japan’s rapidly ageing population. Government debt, already the world's highest ratio at 200% of GDP, will rise as Tokyo borrows $100 billion to rebuild and GDP shrinks. Luckily, Tokyo borrows at home at floor-scraping 1.5%. But, Japan, too, has its echo of the American argument: Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano opposes Tokyo selling itself bonds as the Fed and Treasury have done, warning resulting higher finance charges would hit Japanese banks.

But how does it all connect? We saw how Japan’s disaster put a crimp in the manufacturing supply chain from Shanghai to Detroit. But, for example, what call have German and other European banks on their U.S. colleagues if Greece defaults? Japan, which has been lending the world $175 billion annually in investment capital, is out of that business. Nobody wants to talk about the impact on Spain [20% of the EU GDP] if Greece [3% of the EU GDP], followed by Portugal and perhaps Ireland, “goes”. What will that do to Latin America where Spanish banks have invested heavily as the Brazilian boom simultaneously now threatens to go “bust”? Australia’s roaring dollar is already feeling Chinese cutbacks as will all commodities producers, perhaps even the Mideast petrosheikhs.

In one of his serio-comic sequences, Charlie Chaplin’s little tramp starts pulling a thread from his crumpled suit. Before long, his whole miserable costume dissolves. Is there that kind of loose thread here?

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Although most the over data are public records and can be procured from various authorities companies in the Usa of America, it is nonetheless extremely inconvenient for employers to do track record check on its possible workers as well as current workers. There are numerous personal investigators who provide the support. Also, you will find third party companies who also offer the same type of service. You will find also accessible online information banks which may provide the necessary information about individuals. What they do is they purchase U.S. public data and offer them online to get a fee.

A Comparison Of Car Insurance Companies

Individuals are naturally apprehended by issues which are unpredictable, much more so, if such can wreak havoc to their physical bodies and investments. Such risks to lives and properties have merited the interest of numerous scientists, who've place forth fantastic amounts of time and power trying to manipulate and predict risks. That risks continue to be unscheduled to this day is somewhat a testament that it has been an exercise in vain.

Maybe, not completely, because their attempts have led other sectors and branches of self-discipline to, in the very minimum, relieve the extreme losses endured by those who drop to a danger. The monetary business, for instance, have created systems of danger management. On a person level, savings account may be opened for people to prepare for risks along with other emergencies. On the corporate degree, dangers may be shared amongst members of the group.

Therefore, the idea of insurance is born into people?s consciousness. Now, The individual having to pay this cost?the insured?has found a way to be guarded in the cost of damaging dangers, by simply anticipating them and having to pay for your cost small by small. Of course, the insurance provider?or, insurer?also takes risks within the transaction, in that the cost with the risk may be greater, particularly if it occurs soon after enforcing the insurance coverage policy.

With the insurance coverage types available these days, instant car insurance, specifically the 3rd Party protection, is perhaps most common and often legally mandated by numerous governing bodies. The prevalence of car use as being a mode of transportation is a powerful situation for obligating drivers to procure 1. Apart from this, individuals around the wheels need to take under consideration other relationships in addition to with their very own car and passengers. There are other drivers and passengers around the street, pedestrians, and properties belonging to private people and the authorities.

Some drivers will add other kinds of online car insurance besides their current public insurance coverage policies. 1 that's frequently neglected and overlooked will be the Underinsured or Uninsured Motorists (UM/UIM) protection. This really is instead important in the event of an accident wherein the celebration at fault isn't covered by any kind of insurance, or is covered insufficiently. With UIM protection, the insurer pays for the hospital expenses with the insured and liaisons with the driver?or his insurance provider?faulted for the accident.

Smarter driver frequently go for complete coverage to be hedged from losses incurred as a result of risks, described as ?acts of God?, like serious climate conditions. Other damages consequently of fire, theft, or animal attacks are also covered under such automobile insurance. Complete protection is really a combination of Complete and Collision coverage, each of that are deductibles, compensated outdoors of the premium. Driver who desires to pay a decrease premium frequently choose to only spend these deductibles out-of-the-pocket.

How to Develop a good Credit score and History

Obtaining your instant credit report will supply you with a very essential bit of credit information. These scores assortment from anyplace among 300 and 900. The greater it's the much better prices you can expect to obtain on loans. Your score will assist you to make sense of your credit report, it provides a good image of how well you are handling your finances as well as provides you insight into precisely what creditors and loan companies examine when determining whether you are certified for a cost card or loan.

This is exactly why we advise that everyone obtain their totally free credit score a minimal of one time for each yr. Whenever you are about to apply to get a charge card, it is a great strategy to get a copy of one's score and report, and examine it to create certain that all of the info is correct. It's feasible to obtain a copy of one's report completely free of charge each and every year from every 1 with the credit bureaus.

Whilst the above concept is really a totally acceptable means of monitoring your credit score standing you could also obtain a three in one report as an option.

This kind of report provides the info that seems in your report as compiled by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion and offers you the large picture of what your credit score background actually appears like. Typically, a 3 in one credit history gives you a short list of potentially tough information, which you are able to rapidly and effortlessly evaluate. It's moreover recognized as a three Bureau Credit report.

Collectors, lenders, and banks will report to a credit score bureau any time a consumer will get a loan, opens up a brand new credit card account, misses a payment on a monthly invoice, or files for personal bankruptcy. Nevertheless, they are not required to report it to all three credit bureaus. The result is that the no price credit report you get from 1 credit bureau could probably be missing some important particulars. That lacking info can often have a great impact on your credit standing. If you would like a really clear view of how good or dreadful your credit history really is, you should look at investing in a three in 1 credit report.

A detailed analysis of one's free credit score and report will offer you having a great insight into your monetary situation. In the event you place inside your purchase to get a comprehensive credit score score from one with the three credit score bureaus, you can be eligible to acquire your credit record from Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax inside a joint file. These are going to help you in simple evaluation of precisely where you stand and make it possible for you to notice the versions in your 3 credit reviews. It's heading to assist you adhere to all loans and cost cards that are opened in your title and also you also are going to be inside a position to understand which companies contact the credit score bureaus.

Hoodia Gordonii As a Weight reduction Supplement

The way in which hoodia gordonii works is fairly basic. After consumption, the active molecule in Hoodia-P57-acts as a all-natural blood sugar stabilizer, which in turn prevents the insulin spike that triggers hunger. The result is definitely an extended feeling fullness, frequently for as much as six hrs following eating, as well as the elimination of your urge to snack in in between meals. That is why they're stated to be among the high diet plan pills that get the job done.

What this implies is that folks who eat substantially less on a daily foundation, normally resulting in weight loss. For example, in a 2006 research performed by Phytopharm pharmaceutical company-the leading researcher of Hoodia diet plan supplements-obese subjects who consumed Hoodia ate a thousand energy less daily, and 7000 calories much less per week, than topics denied Hoodia.

Considering that it can take a deficit of 3000 energy to lose one pound of physique weight, this might easily translate to a loss of two kilos per week, along with a loss at least10 pounds monthly. For this cause, the weight reduction industry is now harvesting and manufacturing Hoodia Gordonni as a diet supplement. Hoodia diet plan supplements are readily offered on-line and in health foods shops everywhere.

Diet plan capsules that do the job are rather hard to arrive by, especially on line. So for those who aren't comfortable with buying them on the net, then we recommend going to your neighborhood supplement retailer in town to determine if they've any of what you are searching for. Chain well being foods stores like GNC, Wholefoods, and so on. are extremely excellent about carrying diet plan tablets that work like hoodia.

I Need a Hemorrhoid Cure: What are My Choices?

As you will find all-natural remedies for any ailment, it's only apparent to believe that hemorrhoid therapy also includes the all-natural treatments in its list. You will find other remedies for hemorrhoids, of course, and they are the much more conventional techniques to assist cure hemorrhoids. But going natural is just as great because the other hemorrhoid treatments. Little doubt that it requires a longer time to remedy than the conventional techniques, however it has proven to become efficient in pain reduction and healing.

The leading all-natural treatment to be able to assist deal with hemorrhoids
would be great old fiber. We all know the significant properties of fiber. It helps with our digestion, softens out stool, and increases its bulk. This would help reduce any straining on our bowel motion. One of the main causes of hemorrhoids is strained bowel action. With fiber inside your system, there will be less strain as we do our bowel movement. This would clearly assist in relieving hemorrhoid discomfort and bleeding.

With fiber as a very essential factor in hemorrhoid therapy, it's crucial that we keep up a wholesome high-fiber diet. You will find plenty of fiber-rich meals available to us --- veggies, fruits, whole grains, and so on. We also have to consume plenty of h2o to help with digestion and also the softening of our stool.

Another all-natural remedy that ought to be current in our hemorrhoid therapy supplements is the citrus bioflavonoids. Citrus bioflavonoids may be discovered in citrus fruits, and they have been found to become extremely helpful in reducing symptoms of pain, bleeding, and itchiness. They're also useful in decreasing anal discomfort and anal discharge.

Butcher's broom is a plant that has long been in use to assist remedy hemorrhoids and varicose veins. There is no confirmation however, however it has been stated that the extract from this plant has anti-flammatory and vein-constricting properties that will assist to shrink swollen tissue and enhance the veins. Regardless of its significant advantage more than hemorrhoids, the butcher's broom is dangerous to people to hypertension, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and women who are pregnant or nursing. It should be noted which you possess a doctor's recommendation prior to seeking treatment with the butcher's broom. The butcher's broom is also known as knee holly, box holly, and sweet broom.

An additional popular natural remedy integrated in hemorrhoid treatment
dietary supplements will be the herb horse chestnut. This herb is also useful in enhancing blood circulation in the veins. It also minimizes inflammation and inflammation, and it helps strengthen blood vessel walls. We also need to be careful with this plant. Some components of it are poisonous, and there are stated to be side effects in taking it. The unwanted side effects are uncommon, and consist of kidney harm, bleeding, bruising, and damage to the liver.

Other all-natural treatments for your therapy of hemorrhoids include bilberry extract and gotu kola extract. Both of this herbal extracts assist within the protection and maintenance with the strength and circulatory functions with the hemorrhoid and varicose veins.

All these might not necessarily be included as components inside your dietary supplements or medicine. Bear in thoughts that some of the natural remedies listed over can have side effects. In choosing this option technique in hemorrhoid treatment, we ought to always seek advice from with our physicians first.

What You need to Learn about Genital Warts Treatment

When it comes to using a genital warts you will find a couple of various options. You can choose to have them surgically removed or you are able to use a product called Wartrol. This is really a gential wart cream which you rub on the area. When this treatment is applied directly to the region it'll give you immediate relief. When they're surgically removed they are generally frozen with liquid nitrogen or laser therapy.


While getting genital warts is no enjoyable there is an simple way to fix it. In the event you catch it early you are able to use a genital warts treatment like Wartrol to obtain rid of them. So if you believe you've genital warts then it is best in the event you take motion now, simply because the previously you treat this the faster and easier they will go away. Also, obtain a genital wart cream that uses FDA authorized components because that indicates it is secure to use and the product really operates. Occasionally cheaper isin't always better!

By boosting your immune system you are able to fight back again in opposition to genital herpes. Good homeopathic cures are accessible to assist your body fight this. These kind of remedies might be less effective however it is an additional choice that you have.

Genital warts are both irritating and embarrassing. But, it turns into even more embarrassing when you're in the Physicians workplace and there is someone inspecting them close up. By using a product at house you are able to steer clear of the embarrassment. Wartrol will be the 1 item that can be ordered on-line.

By doing this you will be in the privacy of one's own home and even the shipping and billing is discreet. The product utilizes the very best all-natural ingredients which have been proven to be a extremely effective genital warts treatment. Try it these days and you won't be disappointed.

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After you look at marketing your business on golf courses, you'll find various points to be thought to be prior to purchasing indicators. The very first purpose is high quality of the indicators. Make certain that the indicators that show your brand are produced using supplies which will withstand the toughest of environments and don’t require much upkeep.

Go for a wide choice of materials - aluminum, bronze, granite, redwood, sandstone Kingstone or Rinowood to find the sign that suits for your business requirement. There are some respected firms that supply excellent turnaround time that would assure your satisfaction from their service. A trusted firm that gives great service is Bench Craft Company. You are able to get in touch with such an marketing firm directly and get a quote. You wish your signs to appear beautiful and sophisticated.

Golf cart is another helpful way of reaching golfers. You are going to have your ads in direct sight from the golfers when they ride the cart. An average round of golf lasts for five hours, which means numerous time to receive sufficient impression. Billboards would be the principal marketing solutions on golf courses. It has double sides, which aids in displaying ads on the two sides. It might be set up amid the assistance poles on the front or rear side from the cart. The excellent size for billboards is 4x36 inches and, it might differ according to the course. And, you are able to remain assured that it can deliver you 300 to 400 impressions in a round.

A pin seeker banner is one more efficient way of branding on the golf course. As well as the vital information about the course, it is possible to also display your brand or logo on pin seeker banners. That is set up amid the assistance poles on the front and rear side with the golf cart. They also have an ideal size of 4x36 inches, which can maintain varying based on the course. Comparable towards the billboards, they're able to also assist your messages receive as many as 300 impressions in a round.

The GPS around the golf cart may also be used as a fantastic marketing medium. The vital distance details is generally checked by golfers, and also you can get your ads displayed beside the show. The GPS units are primarily installed around the dashboard or on the windshield. And, the benefit of marketing on digital technological innovation is the fact that you are able to update your advertisements whenever you wish.
Marketing firms like Bench Craft Company supply thorough sponsorship and advertising possibilities that make it possible for your brand to attain matchless exposure for the high-end golf players and audience. Employing the in depth marketing possibilities, you can get your brand messages displayed on golf courses for lengthy intervals of time.

The advantage of marketing on golf courses is that it gives you a lot more than 90% attain to golfers and audience, and there may be no other medium that delivers a lot accomplishment rate. Considering that your brand gets an extended period of exposure, golfers would be capable to view your ads from 1 to 6 hrs around the basis from the placement. And, this indicates which you obtain optimistic recognition to your brand as golfers will link it with enjoyment. And, when you are functioning with specialist advertising firms, you may stay assured that there is certainly no cluttering as every placement will carry separate brands.
One more successful marketing medium is the golfer’s bag. Golfers drive around the course with their bags or they just leave it on the bag drop, nevertheless it can usually get a minimum of 30 impressions inside a round.

Another advertising medium to attain a wide spectrum of golfers is by way of driving ranges. The average session can final from 30 to 45 minutes, and you can get exclusive impressions for the brands and products.

Driving assortment displays make it easier to attain golfers of different levels. You receive leading logo positioning in certain hitting bay. Advertising firms styles driving ranges, customized to suit the present range configuration of every course. This involves pop-out banners, A-frames and material for mesh banner.

Expert marketing firms ensure complete flexibility so as to generate confident that your company gets connected together with your audience inside a manner it makes sense.

The majority of the respected golf course marketing firms let you select inventory at the golf course or for golf occasions. And, since the campaigns may be customized, they'll always fit into for your budget. The length of the advertising campaign can variety above golf seasons or more than months.

And, all the features of the campaign are facilitated by the marketing firm. This involves design and style, placement, reporting and upkeep. And, the approval from the golf course, for the inventive material, is also the responsibility from the advertising firm. In case you are considering exploring golf course marketing to market your business, then you really should surely look into http://benchcraftcompany.net

Making Money on the Internet

(photo credit: Steve Clemons, The Washington Note)

(This article is appearing simultaneously at TheAtlantic.com)

News is breaking that the prosecutor's case in the rape allegations against former IMF Director and French political kingpin Dominique Strauss-Kahn is collapsing.

According to reports, the accuser who worked at New York's Hotel Sofitel has allegedly been engaged in money laundering activities and has had substantial contact with an incarcerated drug dealer.  Strauss-Kahn's bails and terms of detention are reportedly going to be lightened today -- and others are suggesting that felony charges may be dropped against him.

Maybe he did harass this woman -- but it is also possible that he did not.  That's what the system of justice is for -- to presume innocence until guilt is determined.  That no longer sounds likely in this case.

But this week, former French Finance Minister Christine Legarde was named Strauss-Kahn's successor at the International Monetary Fund, and back at home, French Socialist Party Leader Martine Aubry declared her candidacy for President.

Strauss-Kahn, who may be innocent, who even Sarkozy said should be presumed innocent unless evidence led to a different conclusion, now cannot return either to the IMF or to his position as the next likely President of France.

One of the fears that I often hear from people when talking about the growing power of social network sites, blogs, as well as micro-journalism and micro-comment platforms is the one of scandalmongering, or a tsunami of mistruths and reputational attacks that take down some high profile person.

A good read on this sort of thing is the late William Safire's historical novel, Scandalmonger, which shares what slander blogging might have been like in late 18th century America in the person of James Callender who doggedly pursued, occasionally inventing, sleazy stories about both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

I have generally argued, and may be wrong, that the internet is a much more honest and disciplining arena than print, that errors, mistakes, or misreporting would be instantaneously sniffed out and corrected by a global audience.  I know I have gotten things wrong before and had emails or posted comments that helped me put my information on a better, more accurate track.  But that isn't always the case, particularly in growing clusters of same-thinking people who care less about sorting out the facts than they do about the frame (or bias) they bring to some respective issue.

But in today's fast-paced world, a reputation can be destroyed rapidly -- and if, as in the case of Strauss-Kahn it seems, the consequences of charges made actually precede the processing of those charges, then we as a society are no longer extending the benefits of presumed innocence that are core to our form of democracy and our legal system.

I realize given the proliferation of commentary about Strauss-Kahn's alleged womanizing and the bandwaggoning criticism of him that built after his arrest that he is perhaps a flawed and tragic figure. 

But the problem of reputation wrecked still stands whether the target is warm and likeable or a brilliant storm, as I see Strauss-Kahn, and that lesson is a bad one for people on the internet, who are becoming commentators and writers, to learn.  They see the successful effects of attack, whether based in truth and credibility or not, and sense that the downsides of backlash and consequence to an accuser's or scandalmongerer's credibility are not serious.

When Georgia State USDA rural development director Shirley Sherrod was fired by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for making 'alleged' racially-tinged remarks, we also saw consequences meted out before the entire story of that video, brought to light by Andrew Breitbart, was properly considered.

There is no clear fix to these problems.  We don't have a system that would let Strauss-Kahn have his job back, and Aubry is not likely to step aside in her presidential quest and let DSK go back and take the top spot challenging Sarkozy. 

Again, I am not saying that I know if he did or didn't engage in lewd conduct against a hotel chambermaid -- but his legally-based presumed innocence has been inconsequential to the penalties that he's already received, and that's something that should worry us.

-- Steve Clemons is Washington Editor at Large at The Atlantic and can be followed on Twitter at @SCClemons

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News is breaking that the prosecutor's case in the rape allegations against former IMF Director and French political kingpin Dominique Strauss-Kahn is collapsing.

According to reports, the accuser who worked at New York's Hotel Sofitel has allegedly been engaged in money laundering activities and has had substantial contact with an incarcerated drug dealer.  Strauss-Kahn's bails and terms of detention are reportedly going to be lightened today -- and others are suggesting that felony charges may be dropped against him.

Maybe he did harass this woman -- but it is also possible that he did not.  That's what the system of justice is for -- to presume innocence until guilt is determined.  That no longer sounds likely in this case.

But this week, former French Finance Minister Christine Legarde was named Strauss-Kahn's successor at the International Monetary Fund, and back at home, French Socialist Party Leader Martine Aubry declared her candidacy for President.

Strauss-Kahn, who may be innocent, who even Sarkozy said should be presumed innocent unless evidence led to a different conclusion, now cannot return either to the IMF or to his position as the next likely President of France.

One of the fears that I often hear from people when talking about the growing power of social network sites, blogs, as well as micro-journalism and micro-comment platforms is the one of scandalmongering, or a tsunami of mistruths and reputational attacks that take down some high profile person.

A good read on this sort of thing is the late William Safire's historical novel, Scandalmonger, which shares what slander blogging might have been like in late 18th century America in the person of James Callender who doggedly pursued, occasionally inventing, sleazy stories about both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

I have generally argued, and may be wrong, that the internet is a much more honest and disciplining arena than print, that errors, mistakes, or misreporting would be instantaneously sniffed out and corrected by a global audience.  I know I have gotten things wrong before and had emails or posted comments that helped me put my information on a better, more accurate track.  But that isn't always the case, particularly in growing clusters of same-thinking people who care less about sorting out the facts than they do about the frame (or bias) they bring to some respective issue.

But in today's fast-paced world, a reputation can be destroyed rapidly -- and if, as in the case of Strauss-Kahn it seems, the consequences of charges made actually precede the processing of those charges, then we as a society are no longer extending the benefits of presumed innocence that are core to our form of democracy and our legal system.

I realize given the proliferation of commentary about Strauss-Kahn's alleged womanizing and the bandwaggoning criticism of him that built after his arrest that he is perhaps a flawed and tragic figure. 

But the problem of reputation wrecked still stands whether the target is warm and likeable or a brilliant storm, as I see Strauss-Kahn, and that lesson is a bad one for people on the internet, who are becoming commentators and writers, to learn.  They see the successful effects of attack, whether based in truth and credibility or not, and sense that the downsides of backlash and consequence to an accuser's or scandalmongerer's credibility are not serious.

When Georgia State USDA rural development director Shirley Sherrod was fired by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for making 'alleged' racially-tinged remarks, we also saw consequences meted out before the entire story of that video, brought to light by Andrew Breitbart, was properly considered.

There is no clear fix to these problems.  We don't have a system that would let Strauss-Kahn have his job back, and Aubry is not likely to step aside in her presidential quest and let DSK go back and take the top spot challenging Sarkozy. 

Again, I am not saying that I know if he did or didn't engage in lewd conduct against a hotel chambermaid -- but his legally-based presumed innocence has been inconsequential to the penalties that he's already received, and that's something that should worry us.

-- Steve Clemons is Washington Editor at Large at The Atlantic and can be followed on Twitter at @SCClemons

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