The SEC is supposed to be the cops of Wall St. Since the huge Meltdown of 2008 there have been no successful prosecutions of the CEOs who got us to where we are. And now we see what has happened to the evidence. According to Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone, the SEC has … Read more
The other day billionaire Warren Buffett put the screws to the GOP orthodoxy and said, plainly, in the NY Times, that he and his fellow billionaires should, by rights, share in the sacrifice especially in a time of trouble. He reported knowing not one colleague not investing because of higher taxes. In other words, the … Read more
The Debt Ceiling Crisis of the last week was a political nuke that spread its fallout everywhere. The US government was held hostage by radical crazies on the Right, seizing on a procedural device to affect the government’s self-destruction. A unique event in American history and one Obama was spiritually and tactically unprepared for. It … Read more
Now, at least, we know what he stands for.
If John Boehner’s fervent desire is to be on TV all the time, he is wildly successful. Does it matter to him what he is famous for? That he is engaging in bringing down the American economy as part of his mission to bring down Obama? This is the Holy War of the ideologically blind … Read more
