Month October 2007

BushCo. Now with 50% less truth

The Bush Administration censored the top public health official in the US, cutting her Senate testimony in half, so she could not tell them that “the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed.” Six of the twelve pages…

Faith-based investing

Even the Brahmins at Barron’s are skeptical of the current stock market. Countrywide announced hideous earnings and a huge write off last Friday which triggered, you got it, a big rise in the stock price as the Bloomberg cheerleaders joined…

Attention beer lovers

Farmers are increasingly planting corn to be used as biofuel instead of wheat and barley, which are key ingredients in beer. This inexorably means that beer prices will rise. (Do I see a ten-million man march on D.C. in the…