"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, says the relationship between Wall Street and DC is too cozy. Clusterstock interviews him about the “two-way money-and-power corridor now running between Washington and the modern oligarchs Wall Street.” Wall Street: “It’s Too Big,…
For breaking news, like Stephen Hawking being ill, Twitter is superior to Google, says Mashable. Google is the biggest entity on the Internet. It is synonymous with “search”. It feels like it’s been around forever. It is also not able…
California regulators, trying to assess the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, are poised to declare that the biofuel cannot help the state reduce global warming. If this happens, then the entire corn biofuel industry takes a massive body blow.…
Andy Carling muses on the language of politics, focusing on the impenetrable, deliberately vague verbiage favored by the EU. Here’s an interesting word; ‘toilettage’. It doesn’t mean what you think, in fact it’s far worse. Toilettage is the process of…
I’m becoming increasingly annoyed by the elitist, condescending liberal response to the teabaggers. Yeah, the teabagger protests were a bit incoherent and some of the participants are loonies. It was the same way in the early days of the antiwar…