A friend of mine recently asked me to comment on some investment advice from Robert Anorth, commented on by Jonathan Burton, at Marketwatch (here)in a recent article. I think he’s spot on in many respects, but I also took the opportunity to write down how I see our current problems and my assessment was indeed [...]
The Cut, Cap and Balance program proposed in the WSJ today is interesting, but it has a big problem.. There isn’t enough support from the American people, or the Republican party for that matter, for such a draconian move. Do you see the poll numbers on cutting individual programs? I mean, why do you think [...]
Alan Blinder, Ph.D. of Princeton, laid out the case for not cutting government spending right now due to it’s economic impact in today’s Wall Street Journal. In this article, he posits such half-truths and simplistic questions as the following: “The generic conservative view that government is “too big” in some abstract sense leads to a [...]
Wow, rarely have I read such a direct and damning assessment of our relationship with Pakitan. I’m not sure what to think of it. Here’s an excerpt, from Christopher Hitchens in July’s Vanity Fair. “Salman Rushdie’s upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by [...]
