Month May 2010

More states may create public banks

By 2011, only one state will have escaped the credit crunch that is pushing other states toward insolvency: North Dakota. North Dakota is also the only state that owns its own bank. The state has its own credit machine, making…

Gulf oil leak

Oil cleanup will last for months, maybe years Louisiana fisherman contemplating suicide This is so lame it sounds like an Onion parody Under increasing criticism for not moving more aggressively to halt the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico,…

Free Danny Tate

John Amato at Crooks and Liars details the Kafkaesque trials of our mutual friend, singer / songwriter Danny Tate. Judged incompetent due to drug addiction by what appears to be a comatose, uncaring court, his assets are now controlled by…