Month: March 2009

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson The position of A.I.G. at the tippy-top of the pyramidal ponzi-scheme called “finance capitalism” is the same position as the Fairy Godmother in a...

Check it out: “By 2025, a network of bullet trains connecting major cities is to feature magnetically levitated, or maglev, linear motor trains running at speeds of more than 310 mph.” and “third world”...

We don’t really have free political speech in modern day America. With corporate control of the major broadcasting media, what we have is “big money” speech. Free speech is for the suckers shouting from...

Much is being made of the publicly printed resignation letter of AIG executive VP Jake DeSantis.  The letter ended up in the NY Times Op-Ed section. I am proud of everything I have done for the commodity and equity...

I talked to a lot of people tonight at Drinking Liberally, including Duncan (we didn’t wrestle), and my take on the general mood is that people’s number one priority is that we fix the too-big-to-fail problem. Most...