House Appears As Bracing Economy; Not Fixing It

" House plans jobs bill before year end: Hoyer (REUTERS)" The house is reportedly going to look at many options, including road construction, tax breaks and assistance to hard-pressed state governments that...

Is The Michigan State Story a Healing Balm for the Country?

Note: This was originally published on Eye on Sports Media.The eyes of the college basketball world will be on Ford Field in Detroit tonight as "hometown" team Michigan State takes on North Carolina for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. If you believe...

Vus, yus consoivatives; vie hew sew engry? by Arnie Sherr

Vel, I’ll tell ya! Seriously, ya know what really pisses me off? I’ll tell ya what really pisses me off; when the ‘right’ is upset because they are being asked to sacrifice for the good of those less financially fortunate. All we hear from conservatives is their...

Obama Breaks With Europe And Israel

Obama Breaks With Europe And Israel, Plans 2009 ‘State Of Emergency’ Rule By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo) whatdoesitmean.com Russian Foreign Ministry reports on the upcoming meeting between President Obama...

Best News of the Day

I keep getting news feeds Reuters that read "U.S. auto sales fall as recession deepens". I am sure that it was intended to be more "bad news" about the world economy, but I think that it is the best news I have...

Finally, A Fair Stimulus That Works For All Americans

There is plenty of blame to go around. The professional inside-the-beltway politicians, negligent lenders and derelict borrowers caused the recession. Yet Barack Obama, an inside-the-beltway elected official has hatched a stimulus package that bails out the reckless bankers...

The last Bush act: banning French cheese

The United States, it turns out, has declared war on Roquefort cheese. In its final days, the Bush administration imposed a 300 percent duty on Roquefort, in effect closing off the U.S. market. More

American Economy: Man The Life Boats!

Yes, the Fed can crank up its magical printing presses and pour dollars on the flames, but there is in actuality very little that the monetary authorities can do to fix the problem. In the long-run, the only...

American Economy: The Perfect Storm

As pretty much everyone knows by now, the American economy is in bad shape, and it looks like things are going to get a lot worse. We are all familiar with the general reasons for why we have ended up where...

American Economy: Financial Wisdom From Wong's Place

Well, now its official – the party is definitely over. Just as J.P. Morgan reportedly knew it was time to sell when his shoeshine boy started giving him stock tips, my $7.95 All-You-Can-Eat Chinese...

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