Category National Politics
Asian Diplomat: U.S. Decline Inevitable
Each economic downturn in the U.S. inspires a slew of books about the country’s decline. The current crop has been called, “Declinism’s Fifth Wave,” by author and publisher, Josef Joffe. However, many Americans find the declinist literature written by foreign authors distasteful. Just as outsiders are forbidden to criticize the family, books written by non-Americans […]
JPMorgan and Rogue Trader Nick Leeson
Somewhere Nick Leeson is having a good laugh. In 1995, Leeson destroyed Barings Bank by exceeding the firm’s trading limits and hiding his losses. Leeson’s trades cost the firm $1.4 billion and forced the 232 year old Barings into bankruptcy. JPMorgan apparently employed the same dark arts in the losing trades of London Whale, Bruno […]
Is Bernanke Biting the Hand that Feeds Him?
Someone bearing a striking resemblance to Ben Bernanke recently stated that “too big to fail” (TBTF) banks were a cause of the Great Recession and needed to be fixed. He remarked, “I agree with Elizabeth Warren 100 percent that it’s a real problem. ‘Too big to fail’ is not solved and gone.” Could this have […]
Zest of the Day: Women Make Better Corporate Leaders Than Men
I tend to believe they make better elected officials so the results of this survey don’t shock me (A sweeping generalization I understand and I do believe we have plenty of good male elected officials but a higher percentage of females who are elected are in my opinion are more compassionate, competent and responsive to […]
Kurly’s Kommentary: Terrorist hunger strike, Gandhi style, should lead to closing Guantanamo Bay
By Steven Kurlander kurly@stevenkurlander.com When President Obama was first took office, a rumor was circulated that he had replaced a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office favored by President Bush with one of Abraham Lincoln and sent the Prime Minister packing back to the British Embassy. Obama’s alleged actions were seen both as […]
3 Ways The Sequester is Hurting Military Families
Well, here we are two weeks into the dreaded sequester, 1.2 trillion dollars in discretionary spending cuts with 85 billion set to be slashed just this year. DoD takes the biggest hit at 46 billion in cuts for 2013. While national security is adversely affected due to a reduction in training and military readiness, […]
The Florida Squeeze 