The New York Times, evidently proud of its Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman and today’s announcement naming him the Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, decided to wake me up with this information at 7:00 AM with a “News Alert” text message. I’m a big fan of Paul Krugman, text messages, and the New York Times, but not [...]
With a little luck, and we could use a lot of it right now, four weeks from tonight we will know who will be the next president of these United States. It’s been a long campaign, more than a year, and while, regardless on which horse your money’s riding (assuming you have any left – [...]
It’s 12:53 PM, as I write this, sitting here in my local Starbucks, just around the corner from my home in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. I’m looking out the window, watching the traffic cop on the corner of 43rd Street and 11th Avenue, the traffic cop whom I see regularly in this Starbucks on her break. [...]
America’s Economic Crisis Is Merely A Symptom Of A Greatest Crisis To Come.
The Road To Civil War. Part One.
The House’s failure Monday to pass the historic federal bailout bill is a failure of our government to do its most essential job: protect the people it was elected to represent. This was not democracy in action. This [...]