Month: February 2009

At least your name isn’t Senator Crapo.

Haaretz has exit poll results from the elections in Israel. They provide some hope that Netanyahu might not have won. However, it is downright frightening how weak the labor party is. Exit polls by Israel’s three main...

Ezra Klein explains exactly why you should never rely on financial advice from cable business programs, and he does it in language I’ve been using privately since the dot.com bubble exploded. Unfortunately, the video he...

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner laid out the administration’s plan to bring the financial sector back to health in a speech this morning. I do not believe he took any questions and the markets’ immediate response was...

     What is it about politicians and rich person that makes them think they don’t have to pay taxes? Not only do they not have to pay taxes but they also do not expect that to be an impediment to continuing...