I'll start with a billion of that free money the Treasury department is handing out. You lend it to people, and I'm thinking I'll charge 5% interest. I don't want to charge too much.
When asked what caused the economic collapse, Democrats and Republicans alike stumble, fumble and really can't answer the question. So here are the questions everyone in Washington should be able to answer.
So we tried a Democrat, we tried a Republican, how about we try a businessman to run the Commerce Department?
In this disaster, the Republicans see gold and they are right. No matter what we do, the next 24 to 36 months are going to be bad, tough, horrible times.
Real estate tracks inflation very well and what makes it a great long term investment is not its growth, but its ability to force people to save.
The bottom of the financial crisis will happen when we discard the corpses of the American businesses who failed themselves, their shareholders and their consumers.
One thing I've never done is lose $645,000,000 a day every day for an entire quarter. Which is exactly what the so-called 'executives' at AIG have just managed to do.
Ironically, delivering news through new media is cheap, fast and easy. Readers made the transition, it's just too bad so many newspapers, with so many good people, never did.
