Month: July 2005

Japan’s Response to London was Intelligent

Do you by any chance know what it was? Did they change colors on a National color alert system? (Or might they be adult enough not to have such a grade-schoolish system in place?) Did their government ministers get on TV and...

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Today’s Economic News

DIA +1.30%, SPY +1.05%, QQQQ +1.92% 10-Year Treasury -3/8 to yield 4.11% Oil – $1.10 to %59.63/bbl Dollar near unchanged versus euro and yen The markets rallied hard today.  Alcoa announced better-than-expected...

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Wie and the big boys

Fifteen year old Michelle Wie is playing the John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour this week.  She shot one under for the first round. Today, she opened with a birdie on the tenth, made par on the 11th, and chipped in for...

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Any Wonder Blogs are Needed?

From Think Progress: Day 6: WH Press Corps Silent on Rove The White House just released the transcript of today’s Gaggle. For the fourth straight time since his lawyer admitted that Rove was one of Matt Cooper’s sources, no...

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Where has all the money gone?

is the title of an incredibly powerful piece by Ed Harriman in the London Review of Books, here Let me offer just a few snippets: The GAO report makes clear that the Americans had given little thought as to how they might...

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