The Obama Illusion
July 8, 2011One of the way-great disappointments in US history is Barack Obama, growing from ‘yes, we can’ to ‘no way’ in the space of a finger snap. Most likely, a great reason for the depressed anxiety…
Category Archives: Finance
Gas and Other Forms of Indigestion
June 20, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The…
Dream and Reality
May 19, 2011US peoples are a resilient breed. The great American Dream still lives, but only within a nightmare of sleepless fantasy. James Truslow Adams coined the phrase, American Dream, in his 1931 book, The Epic of…
Callous and Cold-Hearted — Self-Centered Assholes
April 7, 2011(Illustration found here via Google Images). The current US political scene sucks through an extremely-thin straw, making it hard to swallow a possible federal government shut-down this Friday (tomorrow!). In my humble estimation, there’s never…
Revolt of the Bottom-Dwellers
April 2, 2011Ordinary US peoples are financial slaves to the rich: In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4%…
Predicament — Economic Breakdown While ‘Folks at the top are not concerned with the underlying deterioration of America’
March 8, 2011Don’t we all like surprises: In a move unexpected — after a visit just two weeks ago with the same crowd — US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will pop over to Germany today and then…
GAS — (And NOT the bowel blowback kind, either)
February 27, 2011A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics…
‘Generation Gap’ — Less is Worse
February 20, 2011As life continues to unravel, peoples of my age have come to realize the lie of the so-called ‘Great American Dream‘ — the future looks like shit. From the Wall Street Journal on Saturday: The…
Crisis Cycles
February 19, 2011Rare for me to be up this early on a Saturday, yet here I am at 4 AM peeking at a world seemingly gone mad as a hatter. The hourglass is empty The horsemen are…
Pound for Dollar
January 27, 2011The Brits feel the ugly pinch of wasted economics: The UK economy shrank by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as Britain’s recovery from recession faltered. … Economists said the first estimate…