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 2010
Why oh why is Democratic ‘leadership’ so lame
Harry Reid stripped down a jobs bill that had bipartisan support because in his cunningness, he thinks this will help passage and ease “voter concerns about federal spending.” The bill was $85 billion. Now it’s $15 billion and excludes provisions…
Quants make it impossible for individual traders
How can the individual trader hope to succeed against programs trading thousands of times a second programmed by Ph.D’s? They can’t. Such quant trading increasingly dominates Wall Street now. It’s inevitable that something outside their parameters will happen and they…
Tidal energy turbine goes 1000+ hours of operation
It is the first and only tidal current or wave energy system in the world to have achieved this milestone. The 1.2MW tidal turbine, the largest megawatt scale grid-connected marine renewable energy system in the world, has so far delivered…
Western Union fined $94 million in money laundering probe
The fines are part of a four state settlement. Western Union acknowledged it had reason to know active money laundering was happening at several of its locations. The money was transferred from the US to Mexico. A Phoenix-area businessman is…