This comes from the Huffington Post:
Posted May 24, 2008 | 10:31 AM (EST) at The Huffington Post

Any references to the assassination of Robert Kennedy are especially chilling for those of us who were, so to speak, “there.”
When Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, I [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s behavior has hit a new low of ethical and moral standards among American national political figures. Her recent comments about Bobby Kennedy’s assassination were not just tasteless and wrong-headed, they unmask her as a person willing to do anything for her own personal gain.
In the past, she has made comments or [...]

This article speaks for itself.
Bill for taxpayers swells by trillionsDeficit far bigger than government estimate
By Dennis CauchonUSA TODAY
The federal government’s long-term financial obligations grew by $2.5 trillion last year, a reflection of the mushrooming cost of Medicare and Social Security benefits as more baby boomers reach retirement.
That’s double the red ink of a year earlier.
Taxpayers [...]

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I said a month ago that Hillary Clinton’s calculus might have been designed specifically to capture a VP spot on a joint ticket, if she could not win the nomination. Here is what I said on April 23rd:
Ultimately, David Gergen, a very prescient political analyst on CNN, may be right. He said it may [...]

The Jed Report has a video with the facts regarding what the Clinton campaign said and when regarding Florida and Michigan. She is being quite disingenuous on this issue and is further undermining her credibility as an honest person. Watch the video.

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This past week, I attended an Investment luncheon to hear Greg Valliere, the chief political strategist with the Stanford Washington Research Group. He had a number of important things to say regarding the economic implications of political decision-making in Washington and of this year’s U.S. presidential election. I agree with most of his [...]

I’d say that the UK is looking a lot like the U.S. looked a year or so ago, with high consumer debt loads and high property prices. What’s the likelihood of recession. A near certainty.
“Over to the strategy team at Legal and General. They’ve charted a ‘heat map’ of factors that could push us [...]

I started tracking an odd statistic that I made up in the aftermath of the last recession called the ‘Mortgage to Growth Gap’ (MGG). At the time, a lot of pundits I respected where saying that American consumers were spending right through the recession in a way that hadn’t happened before. While this [...]

The credit crunch has claimed the heads of many a financial market since it was prematurely marked as ‘contained’ to subprime loans. These markets include jumbo mortgage loans, Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), asset backed securities, High Yield bonds, SIVs, the inter-bank market, commercial paper, money market funds, and the auction rate market.
Now add Student [...]