Month: April 2005

4/27/1937: The Day the First Social Security Checks Were Distributed…Write an LTE on this historic day! This Day in History On this day in 1937, the nation’s first Social Security checks were distributed. In honor of...

Well, The Daily Show will have plenty of material.  I smell a Mess-o-potamia segment coming this week. Well this wasn’t in those best laid plans… The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than...

Keith Olbermann hits on the strange Jimmy/Jeff White House visits: No, click here Courtesy of DEMbloggers. Check them out.

Steve Roach is the Chief Economist at MorganStanley.  To put it mildly he doesn’t much like the economic situation in the United States. “In all my years in this business, never before have I seen a central bank...

Qatar is considering privatizing al-Jazeera because of relentless US pressure and an advertising boycott by Arab countries offended by its critical coverage. Ernst and Young has been hired to look into “possible...