Year: 2012

Just a few weeks ago, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that he would do anything required to bailout:  the weakest members of the Eurozone and in so doing prevent the euro currency from dissolution. Investors who may have been previously positioning themselves to withstand a euro crisis seem to be […]

In a twist so big it could have been inspired by: Animal Farm, the same President who has put class warfare and stoking resentment against the wealthy at the core of his political strategy has a: 1.4 billion dollar personal budget for his family. Taxpayers spent 1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining […]

I am the mom of a 12-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy. They have been huge fans of Nickelodeon TV programming throughout their childhoods. We even took them to the Nick Hotel in Florida, where we stayed in a SpongeBob SquarePants family suite. But enough is enough. Like disgusted parents across the country, I put […]

President Obama recently lamented: “You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.” I think this statement reveals more about Obama and his plans for a second term than meets the eye. Elaborating, Obama said, “I got elected and … big accomplishments like health care got done … because […]

During the same week when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered and his dead body dragged through the streets by celebrating mobs, the President of the United States found time to go on the David Letterman show to demonstrate his sense of humor and how cool he is. But Barack Obama did not have […]

The presidential debate season is upon us with President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, scheduled to square off Wednesday night in the Political Class version of a cage match. Heading into the debates, the conventional wisdom suggests that Romney has fallen way behind and has to dramatically change the course of the race […]

We like tribalism for the same reason we like to eat fatty foods: We evolved that way. Homo sapiens didn’t survive long on the African savannas as rugged individualists. Alone, they couldn’t scare away the scarier animals and, for the most part, they couldn’t catch or kill the tastier ones. But in groups, humans rose […]

This story should send icy slivers of: fear for the future: shooting through the gut of all Americans who care about the future of this country. The latest round of extraordinary Federal Reserve stimulus is risky and leaves little room to maneuver should another crisis hit, economist Lawrence Lindsey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. Lindsey said […]

Are we getting to the point where whole cities going bankrupt is a ho-hum topic? Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lake have all gone down that road now and over the next few years, dozens and dozens of cities — and then eventually WHOLE STATES – are likely to follow them. Why? It’s: the same old […]