America has the leadership it deserves, and when this country finally finishes its thrashing, shrieking, pitiful death throes, hopefully ignorant, lazy people will know enough to stay the hell out of its government, for their own sake.
Two news items to consider together: Bin Laden’s Goal is to bankrupt the USA, and the USA needs to raise the federal debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion just to function next year To be honest, we didn’t even fight this one like we wanted to win it.
No matter how bad you think your situation is, it’s probably not as bad as most Haitians’ situation yesterday. And that’s on top of a mess of other problems; a week ago, before anyone was even thinking of earthquakes, Haiti was the poorest country in the western hemisphere. But even the most miserable person in [...]
There should be no investor class in the first place; the existence of institutional investors at all is a major contributor to our current socio-economic reality’s absolute fuckedupness. I’ll start with my model of how I think things should be then point out the most significant divergences and their ramifications. I’ll finish by praying to [...]
A sure path to failure: spend all of your time dreaming and making plans, so many that there’s no time to act on any of them. The blog will remain on hold for the time being.
Massive debt, economy in shambles, growing dissatisfaction with the current regime (slowly but certainly), political opportunity presents itself- a matter of years. To have answers, to be helpful. Arthor Bearing’s grail is a political philosophy.