On the back of a 9-point win in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has gotten a decided financial boost. Down and out with no money left, Clinton is racking in the dough with much of it coming from new donors excited after her Pennsylvania victory.
The Dallas Morning News reports:
Sometimes you just have to ask. Oh, [...]

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After endorsing the Clinton candidacy for the Democratic nomination, the New York Times seems to be getting cold feet. In an editorial today, entitled “The Low Road to Victory,” they blasted her saying:
“The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with [...]

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So, it’s finally over. The Democratic Pennsylvania primary has gone to Hillary Clinton. I’m sure we are all relieved to have that behind us. I know I was getting sick of hearing about it. And, quite franky, I am sick of this Presidential campaign altogether. The primary in Pennsylvania turned out [...]

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The bubble built in residential housing is quickly moving to commercial real estate. It stands to reason that commercial real estate should suffer if residential real estate does. Yet, those same financiers who brought us the housing bubble went into commercial real estate (CRE) loans en masse when things started to slow in [...]

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As we think about who is best to lead our nation, we should also be asking ourselves who is best suited to repair the damage done by the Bush Administration to America’s reputation internationally. Many people abroad were with us after 9/11, ready to help in any way they could to make sure something [...]

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I think Bill Cosby is on to something. In this month’s issue of the Atlantic, you will find a terrific article chronicling Bill Cosby’s transformation from America’s dad to the 21st century Booker T. Washington. The most interesting thing about Cosby is that his legacy comes from Malcolm X more than Martin Luther [...]

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I f anyone doubted it, China’s bubble has finally popped. The Shanghai Composite Index is down 50% from its highs in 2007. That is a massive downswing that must have broader consequences. Moreover, this is likely the result of a realization that Chinese equities were overvalued in a world where the U.S. [...]

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As the Fed Funds rate gets close to zero, pundits have been worrying about a pending liquidity trap. While I think these worries are well placed because the Fed is running out of bullets, I am more concerned about inflation right now.
We are in the midst of a credit crisis. Banks are having [...]

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RBS, the second largest British bank behind HSBC, has finally come clean on the credit crisis. The price? An enormous $24 billion in new capital needed. This is a huge story because this does not even begin to discount the credit problems British banks are likely to suffer when the UK market starts [...]

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There is a good article on Obama’s political proving ground in Chicago from the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal called “For Obama, Chicago Days Honed Tactics”. I recommend it highly.

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