"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The credit losses associated with subprime have come to light and they are fairly significant,” — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, today “Come to light’? They’ve been a million watt floodlight in the eyes for several months now to all…
Joe Bageant grew up redneck in Winchester Virginia, escaped to the city, became a “godless commie,” moved back thirty years later, and wrote this book about it. It’s subtitled “Dispatches from America’s Class War.” He looks at the people that…
“I think there ought to be regulation of subprime. I think there ought to be regulation of prime. I don’t think that the economy is best left to its own devices almost ever. The excesses that are permitted in the…
From Bruce Sterling, commenting on the recent deluge of rain in Texas. In other and even weirder Texan news, Texan state officials ignore the incompetent feds and rely on big-box commercial retail outfits to respond to weather emergencies. Can secession…
Pakistan from the about-to-be-launched new insurgency aimed at the government and Mexico, well, the story starts with $217 million found in a drug dealer’s home he says was for the president of Mexico.