There are a dozen bullet points in today’s Treasury Update. Here are the first 5. Month to date tax collections for the period ended June…
D.C. Decoder 101: How Washington spends your money (via The Christian Science Monitor) Real Time Tax Data Hot Like the WeatherLEE ADLER 1 – LIQUIDITY TRADER-…
Investing 101 teaches to never chase short-covering rallies in a bear market, especially in an intentional Depression foisted upon the populace by its own federal…
Across the country, long-term unemployment insurance is drying up. Some 200,000 unemployed Americans lost access to government benefits earlier this month, most in California. All…
FOR the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration.…
¶ The American International Group, the huge insurer that came close to collapsing during the financial crisis before being bailed out by the federal government,…
Cheating on the final exam to get an A doesn’t mean you mastered the subject. Yet cheating is all we have in America because sacrifice and adult trade-offs are too painful.
We all know there is no shortcut to anything worth having–mastery, securit…
Durable goods orders rose 8.7% In February versus January on a nominal, not seasonally adjusted basis. The mainstream media reported only the 2.2% seasonally massaged…
The self-interest of the alcoholic is to keep drinking. Is this truly in his best interests? The answer illuminates the pathology of power in America.
If we ignore the lip-service showered on “reform,” we find that there is really only one strate…
ELIMINATING the benefits reaped by institutions that are too politically powerful and interconnected to fail has been an elusive goal in the aftermath of the credit crisis. Institutions most likely to receive assistance from the federal government if t…
