Day October 30, 2008

An epic crash

Chart from Calculated Risk. There’s no sign the current stock market crash is anywhere near done either. That 10% up a few days ago was a bear market rally. Such rallies are known to spike up ferociously then die quickly,…

Don’t Vote 2 (the People’s View)

We are the brothers of bullion, the sisters of stock options; the compadres and comadres of cash. For the last 8 years, we tuxedo and evening gown-clad denizons of the richest 0.01% of America’s economic bell curve have been celebrating…

Rednecks for Obama

Via Andrew Sullivan While we’re on the subject, there seems to be some confusion in Liberal Land that rednecks must always be right-wing bigots or some such nonsense like that. Um, Willie Nelson is a redneck. And he’s seriously progressive.…

Advantage: Obama

From polling site FiveThirtyEight We have a pretty good idea of where this race stands — a far better idea than you’ll get by trying to discern the meaning of John Zogby’s divining rod or paying any attention to what…