Fiscal Cliff Countdown : Unchain Us, Majority Leader Reid, From Chained CPI Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 30, 2012 On Friday I wrote that a fiscal cliff deal that would appeal to enough GOP House and Senate legislators...
December 30, 2012 . . . NOTE: This posting is a republication of a piece I wrote in December 2011. It has application to the present “fiscal cliff” negotiations that some believe will result in...
by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 10, 2012 John Boehner, the wily Speaker of the House, is trying to simultaneously outthink and outmaneuver virtually everyone during the battle over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He knows...
Romney “won” the debate. That’s the consensus. Poor Chris Matthews was apoplectic. In this low moment let’s remember that “winning” through outrageous lying is an American political tradition, particularly among recent Republican candidates. Although...
If we could harness it to good purpose, there’s enough gas in analysts of gasoline prices to run the world for a thousand years. Particularly gassy are the GOP presidential contestants who assert the...
GOPers far and wide have lately noticed, and noticed, and n.o.t.i.c.e.d rising gas prices. They didn’t squawk much about it when Dubya was president, but then they weren’t trying to oust a president. Context...
“I shouldn’t have gone out so far . . .” Like Santiago in Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea, I’m going out way too far. Putting a hook into something that’s well...
Keep an Eye on Your Pic-a-nic basket! The recent stock market rally has brought good cheer and radiant sunshine to the budding Spring of this Decession* (TM). It’s a nice picnic basket of stock...
“Now that I’m getting so close to death I’m feelingmore cheerful about the economic future.” May 3, 2009: Charlie Munger, 84, Warren Buffett’s BFF and partner, had the by far the award winning quote...
