Institutional investors such as pension funds regard European venture capital as a bad asset class.
But unless you want to be made to feel like you're top of the Bad Parent Class, trips out are the order of the day.
And that would be the wrong thing to do for our economy, it would be bad for middle-class families, and it would be bad for businesses that depend on family spending.
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Everything that I have heard in this debate from the other side has been a call to return to the policies that we know from recent unhappy experience led to a very bad economic situation in this country -- particularly bad for the middle class.
What's more, the rightward cast of many Democrats in the freshman class is hardly bad news for conservativism ... leadership is never weakened by a little humility.
Before Plowden, whole-class teaching got a bad name because it often led to teachers droning on while their pupils dropped off.
Robin Hanson, Megan McArdle, and Will Wilkinson all think Steve Jobs gave bad advice to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University.
Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.
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"After I left my job with a bad boss, I took a personal development class, and it really helped improve my confidence and how I was presenting myself to others, " says Levit, who recommends Dale Carnegie leadership seminars.
The financial services industry has models in place that serve the wealth and working class alike, and both are equally susceptible to bad advice and fraud.
Yet, according to Mr Varma, the Indian middle class shows little inclination to fight the corruption, bad governance and incompetence that hold back the poor and block upward mobility through education.
And, more and more over the last 20 years as watchdogs like Public Citizen and others have filed objections to bad settlements, courts have made good on their obligation to protect class members.
The internet has lots of legal sites like this, which promise thousands of top-class titles but in truth resemble the worst shelves of a bad video-rental store.
When workplace conduct is bad for business, business expels the bad apple, or sends him (or her) to an anger management class.
Mr Daley won control of Chicago's schools by striking a deal with his Republican opponents in the state legislature that enabled him to set about sacking bad teachers, insist on pupils completing academic requirements before going up to the next class, and thin out the bureaucracy enough to get the schools back in the black.
Indeed, lawyers argue that securities litigation and consumer class actions are necessary to discipline corporations that face no other brake on their bad behavior given the dysfunctional regulatory system.
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That bit about the bad pay is key, I think, to understanding the really precarious position the middle and working class finds itself in today.
Some Senate Democrats have begun to entertain the idea that going over the cliff would not be such a bad idea, because the tax increases would kick in and then could be cut for the middle class.
It took us a decade to see the culmination of some of the bad ideas that had been put into place -- the lack of regulation on Wall Street, middle-class folks struggling.
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