Barron’s cover story this week is a comparison of Obama’s and McCain’s visions for the US economy. The caption on Barron’s website says “Required reading before you vote.” Quite frankly, Barron’s is full of crap.
I’ve said in the past and will keep reiterating: ideology (and the idiots it spawns) has no place in [...]
I posted some quick thoughts on the Russian-Georgian conflict a few days ago. Since then, I have read too many articles and editorials filled with finger-wagging (bad Russia, bad!), moralizing (how dare the Russians violate another sovereign country), sermonizing (now is the time for the West to put Russia in its place) and plain-old [...]
Disclosure: I support Barack Obama for president.
That said, McCain’s latest attack ad (you know, the one about Paris Hilton & Britney Spears) strains even my jaded sensibilities. Republican elites have long displayed complete disregard for the intelligence of the American electorate (and with good reason) but this argument is completely inane (as a follow-up, both [...]
Interesting how the small cap stocks as represented by the Reuters 2000 is holding up:
As of 12:10 am EST:
Dow = -1.8%
Wilshire = -1.6%
S&P500 = -1.7%
NASDAQ = -1.5%
Rueters2000 = 1.0%
As an aside, I’m listening to Bloomberg and they cut to the world’s greatest witless wonder, GW Bush. It was amazing to listen to the POTUS [...]
I’m listening to Barack Obama’s speech to the Israel lobbying group, AIPAC and he is laying on the pander nice and thick today. I am on record as endorsing Barack Obama for POTUS but I’m sure many people will criticize him for shifting positions a little (there were at least 2 points that seemed [...]
A little over a year ago, I started this site and asked my friend his opinion of it. He thought the name suggested a little arrogance and in hindsight, that’s probably the case but the domain name’s already paid for so I just have to live with it.
I liked the idea of the Enlightened [...]
