When it comes to risk assessment, economic or otherwise, it is now quite impossible to trust the judgments of our leaders. You can't assess risk if your mind is closed.
The New Yorker profile of Jerome Kerviel may make you want to sell all your stocks and bonds and put them under the bedroom mattress.
Conservatives are scared of a progressive majority. And they're going to lie, cheat and steal to prevent it from happening. But they can only be successful if we let them.
McCain's efforts to make Obama's character the deciding factor in the election have served only to shine a spotlight on his own galaxies-beyond-shame cravenness, and he deserves to be called out.
Can Hank have seen the light? Is he going to do what must be done? Is he going to take his Big Pile of Cash and buy us some banks?
Soros: Repairing the financial system will not stop a severe worldwide recession. The U.S. consumer can no longer serve as the motor of the world economy, the U.S. government must stimulate demand.
Reverberating into the weekend, it seems McCain and his crew didn't appreciate the pot they'd been stirring in working up their crowds.
With OPEC's volition to keep prices at artificial and egregiously high levels, they have forever lost all semblance as suppliers who can be relied upon in good times and bad.
It seems we never learn the right lessons or take the right actions to protect the majority of the populace who time and again end up taking the hit for the folly of an elite few.
"People assume that when we hold a rally, angry white people just magically appear, but that's not the case," said McCain aide Hardin Carley. "The fact is, a lot of planning goes into this."
Todd Palin is far more than just the Governor's spouse. We are entitled to know what his role in a McCain White House is likely to be.
By teaching his volunteers to see Barack Obama as similar to bin Laden, McCain is using his campaign to tie Obama to the mass murders of September 11, 2001.
