"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
NYT: Tens of thousands of voters have been purged illegally from voter rolls, but it doesn’t seem to be coming from just one party, and could be a result of states trying to comply with 2002 election laws. VotersUnite tells…
Finally We continue to see the wreckage caused by Greenspan’s no-regulations, cheap money, extreme right-wing Ayn Rand philosophy. I remember being at a client, a precious metals dealer, during the peak of his regime, and being baffled at why the…
NY Times. December 4, 1914
Bruce Schneier summarizes a paper by Max Abrahms in International Security. Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that has a lousy track record of convincing those civilians to give the terrorists what they want; (2) treat terrorism as…
Treasury, in a tectonic shift, is now considering capitalizing banks with that $700 billion. This means rather than buying the toxic glop, they will take ownership stakes. Sweden did this a while back during their crisis. It worked – and…