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Another weekend of intrigue in the financial markets. Two brokerages didn’t survive and it looks like the US’s largest insurer might not either. I’ve been watching the posts on The Big Picture all weekend with amusement. He’s taken an almost gleeful approach to the implosions, though I’d imagine it’s more of an “I told you [...]

Sorry, Congressman Rangel, but you should go as head of Ways and Means. I know that it means losing the most powerful position in Congress (Pelosi can’t do squat if your committee doesn’t fund it) but when you are caught evading taxes, that’s a problem.
Your statement is ludicrous. “We do make errors, even though we [...]

I think the cover of this week’s Economist pretty much sums it up.
If I could read the pure volume of material put out by the newspaper every week, The Economist would easily be worth the cost. Last week’s rant about bringing back the old McCain was also spot on.
I posted a couple of years ago [...]

I’ve been watching the political circuses (circuii?) of the past two weeks with a sort of detached bemusement. I’ve been working way too much to really pay attention to anything else but I’ve at least kept up with the goings-on. I listened to most of President Clinton’s speech and parts of Obama’s, Palin’s, and McCain’s [...]