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Uncle Sam the Loan Shark
I must admit - I’m totally dumbfounded and stunned today by the article I read in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “The Paulson Plan will make Money,” by Andy Kessler. Essentially, Kessler’s argument is that somehow in all of this mess, the money spent in the proposed financial intervention plan before Congress will actually result in a windfall to the taxpayer in potentially trillions of dollars. This argument is fundamentally flawed - for it if were true, there would be no investment/financial services crisis to force the government’s hand.
US Government commits to a bailout of the banks…
Following an emergency meeting Thursday night, the Bush Administration and Congress have pledged to work together to commit the US Government to potentially a full intervention in the US financial markets to try to resolve the credit crisis in hopes of staving off broad damage to the United States economy and financial markets.
Post 9/11 - Are we safer?
For me, 9/11 isn’t something I watched on TV…. I lived it…. and the reminders of it are ever present in Washington, D.C. Tomorrow the former 9/11 Commission members will release a report stating that the United States is “dangerously vulnerable” to another attack. That is just plain wrong.
In the end - does Nancy Pelosi decide who’s the next President?
This entire election comes down to the electoral outcome of three states - Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia. Virgina’s 13 delegates, New Hampshire’s 4 delegates, and Colorado’s 9 delegates, mean the difference between Obama being elected by 8 delegates, or McCain being elected by 2. Moreover, there is a very distinct possibility that the next [...]
How important is the Vice President pick anyways?
The buzz this week is all about who Sen. Obama will chose as his Vice Presidential nominee. I have been talking with friends and the question keeps coming up, “How important is the pick?” The answer - it is one of those choices in life you can only “screw up”; getting it right often has [...]
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