Barack Obama

Edward Harrison here.In the last post, Marshall commented on the need for the U.S. Presidential candidates to show their mettle in a time of financial volatility. As I write this, the Dow Jones Industrial average has just finished the day…

Marshall Auerback here. This crisis is an audition for the presidency in real time -- and an opportunity for a candidate to step up to the plate. If handled the right way, it could decide the election. If it is treated like another…

Obama mentor Joe Lieberman is going all out for Obama's opponent in order to defeat Obama. Why, you ask, when he made quotes like this one in 2006 (via Political Wire):"The gifts that God has given to Barack Obama are as enormous as his…

As the Democratic and Republican Conventions have begun, most Americans are going to get political overload as they are inundated with a media blitz by the U.S. presidential candidates and the inane trivialities of our media-driven…

Voters in America are concrete, specific, and focused on the here and now by a margin of 3 to 1. To me, this has a real impact on the outcome of primary and Presidential races as candidates must speak in a way that resonates with those…

Obama in his move to the center is increasingly alienating social Liberals/fiscal Conservatives like myself. He is either pandering to social conservatives or he actually believesthis stuff or both. The latest move that demonstrates his…

Count me in the crowd of Civil Libertarians who are perplexed by Barack Obama's move to the center and rejection of basic civil liberties. He has come out in favor of a bill on wiretapping proposed by the Bush Administration that gives…

I was reading Barron's 2008 Midyear 2008 Roundtable just yesterday when a comment by Marc Faber struck me. He said that Obama is "not going to be good for the market." He expects Barack Obama to win in November and for the investment…

This past week, I attended an Investment luncheon to hear Greg Valliere, the chief political strategist with the Stanford Washington Research Group. He had a number of important things to say regarding the economic implications of…

Barack Obama, speaking at a gathering in Gary, Indiana, made some very accurate comments about the dollar's weakness and its causes (see Reuters story)."We are spending all our money, spending overseas and spending dollars and nobody is…