Something to ponder
Why do I hear the Benny Hill theme every time there’s more news from Greece?
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 November 2011
California Gov. Brown proposes major public pension changes
The non-partisan Little Hoover Commission reported in February that the ten biggest pension funds for California public workers face a coming shortfall of $240 billion. These benefits are mandated, must be paid (unless renegotiated), and obviously will decimate the budgets…
Occupy The Constitution! OWS has a platform
The Constitution Working Group of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has produced the following Statement of Beliefs as a platform for recommended future actions to solve the Nation’s problems, including BAILOUTS, CORPORATE PERSONHOOD, WAR, UNSOUND MONEY AND DEBT. The Constitution Working…
EU debt crisis negotiations degenerate into chaos and farce
Greece PM Papandreou may or may not resign. There was an important meeting of exalted muckety-mucks scheduled but it was cancelled after much confused running around. Sarkyois getting all huffy about Greece refusing to be good serfs and take on…
MF Global. $1.5 billion in customer accounts missing
Former Goldman co-chair, US Senator, and NJ Jersey governor Jon Corsine is the CEO of MF Global. In my opinion, he belongs in prison. NYT sums it up: The CME Group, a major exchange where MF Global traded until this…