It is forgivable, really. The economic shock during October and November pushed the global economy into a significant recession. Then America elected their “Hope and Change” ticket, with fantasies of a quick fix to what was a deep rooted systemic fault in the financial systems of the modern world. By throwing vast sums of money […]
Headlines on multiple news sites point to a possible Taepodong-2 missile launch in the next day or two. As documented earlier, this will be another in a line of tests of intermediate range North Korean rockets. While the North has described this as a satellite launch, it is actually the means to test the missile, […]
Links worth reading: Democrats try to rebrand earmarks as good government. Not a surprise, since they’re also trying to rebrand trillion-dollar deficits as good economics. And speaking of good government, Rep. Charlie Rangel responds to direct questions about his tax issues. Robert Samuelson weights in on Obama’s approach to the economic crisis: Confidence (too little) […]
I have been warning now for several weeks that the second big round of financial stress has been gathering strength, carefully picking it’s time to emerge and unfold. This week the European Union will hold a summit to try and chart a course out of the death spiral that many EU member nations now find […]
Geldpress breaks it down for you, with actual numbers: Hat tip to Conservative Grapevine. ..bruce w..
Word has been circulating around national security focused sites that North Korea is preparing to test their home grown long range missile. According to reports, recent reconnaissance has shown components that look like parts of a Taepodong-2 missile being moved via rail to the North Korean rocket test site on the east coast. This facility […]
Imagine, all of this squalor could be yours, you lucky US IBM employees! In case you are not a technology worker, over the past 15 years an increasing number of skilled jobs in this country have been going to (largely) Indian workers who come to this country on what is known as an H1B visa. […]
First it was the NY Times editorial telling Tom Daschle that he needed to step down as the Obama Administration nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — which Daschle did the same day the editorial came out, specifically citing the Times as he did so (“I read the New York Times this morning…”). […]
We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]
Tuesday morning links
First off, don’t miss Henderson’s analysis of the pending missile shot by the North Koreans. Opposition within Congress to the cram-it-through legislative approach of the Democratic leadership: “The process by which these changes have been forced upon this body is so deeply offensive to me, and so deeply undemocratic, that it puts the omnibus appropriations […]
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