Month February 2009

The Jindal Crater

Presumed Republican front-runner for 2012, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, crashed and burned spectacularly last night giving the Republican response to Obama’s speech. The criticism has been scathing. One Republican pundit said Jindal was nihilistic, Krugman said it was like watching…

Stanford, Madoff, the SEC

Doug Henwood Apparently the SEC has known that something was fishy with Stanford for years. The same with Madoff before him. Yet they did nothing. Was this corruption? Bribery? Self-censorship? Complacency? Probably all of them. But this is a society…

The elites must be brain dead

Futurejacked The elites who have risen to the top of corporate food chains across America continue to show their utter cluelessness. Here we have an example of a chance for a major conglomo to bank the equivalent of millions in…