Politics

The following is a translation of an article by Dr. Artur P. Schmidt, a well-known economist and economic journalist in Switzerland. Schmidt is also a keynote-speaker, who speaks regularly about new media, technology, future trends and…

Burris Says Was Asked to Raise Funds for Blagojevich - Bloomberg.com Just how big are the UK banks - UK Bubble (Alice Cook is all over this one -- and it's not just about RBS. Thanks for the link, Alice.) Royal Bank of Scotland paid…

A recent note from Time Magazine's blog, Swampland: This looks real bad, both for Roland Burris and his country. First a quick recap: Burris gets appointed to the Senate by Rod Blagojevich, a self-made cartoon of political ineptness and…

C-Span ranks the former Presidents: Honest Abe gets top billing, follwed by Washington, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Truman. How did the George Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan do? Click the link to find out.

The hope of bipartisanship dies an early death with Barack Obama's stimulus bill.

We are barely two weeks into Barack Obama's tenure and reports are surfacing everywhere that his "team of rivals" is at each other's throat. President Obama had said just after the election that he was looking to pull together the best and…

UPDATE: 12 Jan 2010: I am re-publishing this for the third time because of the situation at AIG. The question that Tim Iacono asked on his site a year ago in the post "Why aren't Americans rioting?" is based on an article from Alternet.…

This is pretty funny actually (Hat tip Michael Turk).

Here is the inaugural address of the new President, Barack Obama, from earlier today.

There is no way to look past the way that the U.S. TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) has been administered and not understand we are seeing crony capitalism at work. One only need look at the way the British are doing things to see a…