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Mr. Obama: Decline the Peace Prize
I heard this morning about the President’s Nobel Peace Price. It was followed by laughter, and the running joke of the morning: “I thought I was reading The Onion” people said. The incredulousness is deep on both the left and the right. Mr. Ob...
The Right March on Washington
When I was young, civil disobedience was the tool of choice of the left. Now it has become the tool of the right. In August conservatives filled town halls. Today they filled the Washington Mall. While the right is not really comfortable, yet, with ...
Health Care Reform: It is a Lie
Yep it’s a lie. After the summer of discontent, and the President’s speech last night (with it’s heckling) I’ve written up my thoughts on the current health care debate. Health Care Reform: It is a Lie I wish we were talking about the issu...
No Armageddon, Not Yet
One of the things I’m surprised about is the resiliency of the economy. Things are flattening out, opportunists are making their moves on low prices in many industries. Business is starting up again, mostly because credit is beginning to flow out o...
Big Heros Don’t Solve Small Problems
Back when I was in commerce we’d watch a young executive making a play for relevance and import and say, “Big heros don’t solve small problems.” It’s a version of the old “make a mountain out of a mole hill” idea, but much more dangerou...
Barack Orwell Obama
“Just don’t call it a surge”. From a policy perspective I guess I should be happy. The Obama administration is pursuing policies that look identical to those from the last administration, even if they are named differently. It’s become so bl...
RIP Mark-to-Market
The first good news to emerge since the start of the Financial Crisis came out yesterday as the remarkably dumb regulations requiring Mark-to-Market accounting were repealed. Maybe the government can do some good, after all. Mark-to-Market (MtM) acco...
Ginsberg Pays Taxes
They are Looting My Tax Dollars! Neil Cavuto, who can be like a rabid dog off of its meds, dressed down Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) Tuesday over the “Pay for Performance Act,” a bill Grayson is pushing on the Hill. You can’t miss the clip,...
Populist Outrage, It’s All The Rage
Populist outrage, it’s all the rage. Everyone’s doing it. Newsweek’s cover story screamed about it. Barney (“I want a list of names!”) Frank is leading it. Anarchist children in London are sharing their view of a utopian future by breaking ...
The Speech
Leaders lead from the podium. Those who say otherwise do not understand how leadership works. Regardless of you political stripes, few dispute that somewhere along the path of the last eight years George W. Bush stopped leading the country, primarily...
A celebration of our nation
Today is our day of secular religious celebration. Where else on earth, under what other political system, with what other philosophy, could two political leaders sit together and have coffee before the peaceful transfer of power of the world’s...
The End Of Cynicism?
Is this the end of cynicism? Obama's soaring victory speech in Chicago last night was an oratorical flourish of positivism, such as has been missing in public discourses in America for years. But what does this victory mean to the future tone of di...
They’re not the pirates, we are
John Renesch runs a thoughtful blog over at The Global Dialogue Center. His recent post was called "Wall Street Skull and Crossbones". I took issue with his emotional characterization of bankers as pirates. He wrote: "Their sole purpose is to make ...
Congress to America: Drop Dead
I’m not sure I know how to react to the news today that the House of Representative defeated the bill giving Treasury the ability to purchase mis-priced assets from the banking system. As the market collapsed, $1.1 trillion was destroyed in fallin...
Are Americans worthy of being saved?
Are Americans worthy of being saved? During this financial crisis I have been wandering the halls of academia, blog space and the business world and I'm shocked by our people's lack of comprehension about what is going on in the economy. The misperc...
Comments on the current crisis - Regulation
As a follow on to my last post, and in the spirit of more regulation is good (the protest cry from the streets these days following Wall Street's crisis), here are two ideas where we might be able to do more with less: Fedealize insurance regulation...
Comments on the current crisis
An angry and probably jealous nation is getting ready to make some big mistakes in financial industry regualtion. Given that the media has been driven into a psychotic incoherent rage, first over the popularity of Sara Palin, and then by the incompr...
No more buildings! Not even for them!
Youthful anarchy is all the rage these days what with the white faced Heath Ledger mystifying millions in movie houses with his posthumous incarnation of amorality, and the Times writing about Malwebolence. So much so that it is crowding out good old...
