Delinquent Taxpayers and Government Employees — Never The Twain Should Meet

When government employees are also delinquent taxpayers…  Oh, the irony. At a time when bad and government have become synonymous, … More

More Oil, The Gulf Stream, Liability Caps and Environmental Exceptions

Have we created The Perfect Oil Storm? Don’t get me wrong, I’m an optimist by nature and a firm believer that … More

Facing Down the Wall Street Oligarchs (part 2)

And so the story of The Wall Street Oligarchs (part 1) and the Main Street Taxpayers, resumes with Simon Johnson, former … More

Suggestions for the President

Personally, I’m just a little frustrated that we, the American people, are not being enlisted as builders of our own … More

Enjoying Will Rogers

I have always been a huge Will Rogers fan.  So when I spotted THE WIT AND WISDOM OF WILL ROGERS at a … More

A Skeptical Simon Johnson on The Sun King, The Inside Man, and “Too Big to Regulate”

Almost everyone agrees that our financial system is broken. That our government is complicit in this broken system. That the … More

The End of Cash For Clunkers Leaves A Lot Of “Unders” Showing

The end of Cash for Clunkers, aka CARS (Car Allowance Rebate System) program, was at 8pm Monday night. But for … More

Reforming For Profits *update I & II

We must have misunderstood the plan. We actually thought the whole point of reforming health care was to help the … More

Money and The Great American Bank Robbery

As the many recent townhall meetings have shown, the American people are dealing with a few issues of trust in … More

Dear Mr. President, I’d Like to Report a Fishy Drug Deal

Dear Mr. President: I read a post on the Whitehouse blog called “Facts Are Stubborn Things” that said: Scary chain emails … More