Roubini: The Optimist?

In early 2009 he thought that unemployment would hit 10% in 2010. This is the first time that I found Dr. Doom to be optimistic and off base.

Okay, so he is only a couple of months off, and it doesn’t exactly tarnish his reputation. But it does show that even the smartest and most prescient (not to mention pessimistic) of the experts may not have a handle on the depth of this “Great Recession.”

Replacing a "Tool" with the “Master of the Universe.”

As “weak sauce” as Geithner is on Financial Services regulation, Dimon is even worse. Dimon is opposed to ALL of the lame regulations that Geithner is proposing. How bad is that?

Why Don’t Wars Have to be Revenue Neutral?

So it seems that Wars have more value to the U.S.A. than Healthcare Reform.

Just asking!

Better Late Than Never!

Here are some links that I have been collecting over the last month even though I haven’t been blogging. I think that they are each and everyone very interesting though in no particular order.

Sorry about not posting, but I have been dealing with some issues.

I hope you find these equally interesting and enlightening.

I Hope the Shrill One is Right!

Texas to Rethink Death Penalty!

Edward Woodward, R.I.P., 1930 – 2009, Breaker Morant.

RNC Health Insurance Covered Abortion!

Art D’Lugoff, R.I.P., 1924 – 2009.

Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper: Who Could Have Known? Only anyone who looked at the plan!

Stephen Friedman and Why Isn’t He in the Dock!

What Have We Become?

Claude Levi-Strauss, R.I.P., 1908 – 2009.

Peter Shellem, R.I.P., 1960 - 2009.

Good Grocery Policy.