"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Maureen Dowd ponders the sinking Obama presidency, wondering what happened, not really understanding that Obama became president with huge help from investment banks. My view, Obama just isn’t that concerned with the rest of us. After two years of taking…
I call it Progressive’s Pixie Dust Syndrome, the belief that if progressives can just convince Obama to do the right thing, then he will! Pixie dust will then be spread across the land and all will be well, as errant…
Meredith Whitney says the appalling fiscal condition of many states is a systemic risk to the country, with California being the worst. The similarity between the states and the banks is clear; off balance sheet coverage, over-leveraging, borrowing against future…
Robert Reich on his new book. The problems are structural, he say, with the biggest problem being the growing disparity of wealth. The upper 1% in the US got 27% of income in 2007. This leaves much less for the…
Translation: The Fed will continue coddle Wall Street at the expense of the rest of us. They plan to buy assets in hopes that will make dividend stocks more attractive, a singularly useless approach to helping the economy in the…