Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day February 21, 2008
Haiti Nursing Foundation deserves support
Marcia Lane, Executive Director, Haiti Nursing Foundation comments to our recent post about Haitians eating dirt cookies to survive. Articles like this pull at the hearts of well-meaning Americans. But we usually feel frustration that leads quickly to forgetting, since…
Sharper Image files for bankruptcy
Could we be looking at a world without monogrammed silver dog bowls? That’d be the best news I’ve heard in a long time. . . More seriously, with food and energy costs rising for consumers, stores that sell expensive gadgets…
Experience and presidents
The president who came to office with the most glittering array of experiences had served 10 years in the House of Representatives, then became minister to Russia, then served 10 years in the Senate, then four years as secretary of…
Bi-polar financial markets
There is a stunning ability for the equity markets to shake off bad news after bad news. Meanwhile the underlying credit markets continue to deteriorate. Both cannot be correct. This divergence will end, we just do not know when. The…