FDIC bracing for bank failures
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp expects there will be over 100 bank failures in the next year or two, especially in the Rust Belt, California, Florida, and Georgia. Yikes.
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.
Month February 2008
A trend that will never reverse itself
People now spend twice as much time on the internet as watching TV.
World’s first positive energy mixed-use building
This 1.4 million sf building for Masdar City in Abu Dhabi will the first mixed use building to create more energy than it uses. Which is certainly impressive. Another building, a Russian tower will be the tallest in Europe and…
Hillary Clinton: The new Wilma Flintstone?
From D.C. Current at Barron’s (might be firewalled) Compared to Barack Obama’s Web-savvy campaign, Hillary’s is downright prehistoric. Picture Wilma Flintstone trying to best child-genius Jimmy Neutron in a race for class president. Clinton needs the party’s 18-to-30-year-olds to secure…
Nonentity Nader
Nader got 0.3% of the vote in 2004, just three-tenths of one percent.He will almost certainly do even more dismally this year. Obama on Nader “Ralph Nader’s view is, unless it’s Ralph Nader, then you’re not tough enough on any…