Comey Has Poisoned The Well For The Forseeable Future
m2c4
11:05 AM
One last thought (hopefully) on Comey for today and that is that he has totally tainted himself and the Bureau for the indefinite future, es...
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Politics
Politics
Economy Grew At Nearly 3% In Third Quarter
m2c4
9:31 AM
The advance estimate for GDP growth in the third quarter came in at 2.9% according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This was above the c...
Politics
Politics
Countering GOP Defenses Of Comey's Letter
m2c4
8:50 AM
I would just like to push back on a couple of Republican talking points that we have heard this morning from Republicans who are trying to d...
Politics
Politics
Two Stories Today Show Just How Sleazy Trump Really Is
m2c4
8:21 AM
There are two more stories today that illustrate just how sleazy Donald Trump is. The first is from the indefatigable David Farenthold that ...
Politics
Politics
Is There A Rogue Element Within The FBI Determined To Destroy Hillary
m2c4
5:05 AM
It is becoming more and more apparent that there may be a cabal within the FBI that is determined to sabotage Hillary Clinton's election...
Politics
Politics
Reid Accuses Comey Of Violating Hatch Act
m2c4
4:53 AM
I am really going to miss Harry Reid when he is gone. He has been unleashed ever since he decided to not run for re-election and has been t...
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Politics
Politics
Chaffetz, Comey's Motivation And The Hatch Act
m2c4
1:33 PM
As the rumors and innuendos continue to swirl about what the FBI actually knows about these potentially new emails, the latest line of attac...
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Politics
Politics
Initial Thoughts On Impact Of Comey's Letter On The Election
m2c4
12:25 PM
As the initial impact of FBI Director James Comey's explosive and ill-considered email to Congress begins to fade and the reality of th...
Politics
Politics
Comey Must Provide More Information Immediately
m2c4
8:21 AM
The pressure on FBI James Comey to release more information about these new emails that may or may not be relevant to the Clinton email serv...
The Deck View
The Deck View
Natural Weekends - Hawks
m2c4
6:40 AM
Friday, October 28, 2016
Politics
Politics
Feinstein Releases Statement Ripping Comey For "Appalling" Letter
m2c4
3:13 PM
Senator Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has just issued a statement ripping FBI Director J...
Politics
Politics
Comey's Cryptic Letter On Hillary's Emails Is Totally Inappropriate
m2c4
12:16 PM
I guess we had to figure that there would be one more incredible twist left in this year's crazy presidential campaign and today we got ...
Politics
Politics
Obamacare Rate Hikes Partly Due To States Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion
m2c4
9:49 AM
I wanted to follow up on a prior post about the problems with Obamacare . One of the reasons that the pool of enrollees has turned out to be...
Politics
Politics
Kirk's Mocking Comment Reflects GOP Bias Against Women And Minorities
m2c4
8:50 AM
I know it is usually not helpful to take a single incident and make it a reflection of a greater truth. But sometimes it really does seem ap...
Politics
Politics
Another Social Security Scare Story - The Zombie Lie Lives
m2c4
8:03 AM
It seems like I could spend every single day refuting another misleading article about Obamacare , the debt, or Social Security. It is almos...
Politics
Politics
Two Faces Of US Justice - Bundy Acquittal And Dakota Pipeline Protests
m2c4
6:55 AM
Is there anything that shows the bias and prejudice in our current criminal justice system than, on the same day, seeing the acquittal of an...
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Politics
Politics
Another Misleading NYT Article On Obamacare
m2c4
11:41 AM
The New York Times has another classic misleading article about Obamacare today. Basically, the gist of the article is that younger and hea...
Politics
Politics
Renewable Energy Capacity Exceeded Coal In 2015
m2c4
11:03 AM
I didn't want to let his pass without mentioning it. According to the International Energy Agency, the installed capacity of renewable e...
Politics
Politics
Chaffetz Latest GOP Coward To Re-Endorse Trump
m2c4
10:35 AM
It is getting almost impossible to keep track of current Republican officeholders who have unendorsed Trump and then decided to re-endorse h...
Politics
Politics
The Shortage Of Safe Assets And Now Dollars
m2c4
10:09 AM
The global shortage of safe assets has been a recognized problem since the financial crisis. It has resulted in below average and even nega...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Politics
Politics
Study Shows Mergers Have Negative Effects For Consumers
m2c4
12:32 PM
A new research paper of the effect of mergers came out the other day and it certainly has relevance to the spate of mega-mergers that have ...
Politics
Politics
Voter Suppression Another Indicator Of Anti-Democratic Stance Of GOP
m2c4
11:45 AM
The New York Times finally has a front page story about the raft of voting restrictions in place for this election and the difficulty the ...
Politics
Politics
Don't Let The Progressive Narrative Get Lost In Attempts To Legislate
m2c4
8:15 AM
It is pretty clear that the Republican party will splinter into two different factions after this election . There will be the alt-right, wh...
Politics
Politics
GOP House And Senate Candidates Are Sensing Defeat
m2c4
7:10 AM
I've already written that Marco Rubio looks to be running scared , trying desperately to hold on to his shrinking lead in the Senate rac...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Addenda
Addenda
IBM Finds Macs Cheaper Than PCs In The Long Run
m2c4
11:38 AM
Apple has always had difficulty breaking into the certain segments of the business market but that is all beginning to change. Apple has alw...
Politics
Politics
Solving The Problem Of The Global Savings Glut
m2c4
11:11 AM
Another NY Times article today discusses the global savings glut in Asia and Europe and whether that money's search for yield is creati...
Politics
Politics
Despite Hefty Premium Hikes Most Obamacare Enrollees Will Be Able To Find Very Affordable Plans
m2c4
10:02 AM
The New York Times has a front page story today that opens with the sentence, "Premiums for midlevel health plans under the Affordable ...
Monday, October 24, 2016
Politics
Politics
Tweet Of The Day
m2c4
5:03 PM
Politics
Politics
Grassley Claims He Can't Hold SCOTUS Hearings Because It Would Be Expensive
m2c4
2:59 PM
The pathetic Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has put forward the most preposterous theory on why Merrick G...
Politics
Politics
A Broadside Against The Corporate Monopolists And The Oligopoly
m2c4
2:28 PM
Guess who said this: "Over a hundred years ago, a pro-business Teddy Roosevelt busted up more than 40 oil, railroad, steel and other ...
Politics
Politics
Corporate Monopolists Try To Squeeze In More Mega-Mergers
m2c4
1:39 PM
I'm not sure that business leaders have fully understood how much the climate has turned against them in just the last year or so. The e...
Politics
Politics
Amazon's Sales Fell As It Started To Collect Sales Tax
m2c4
11:22 AM
Kevin Drum has an interesting post on the effect of sales taxes on Amazon . On average, Amazon's sales fell off nearly10% and sales incr...
Politics
Politics
Banks Prepare To Leave London In Brexit Fallout
m2c4
7:36 AM
The head of the British Bankers Association warned that major banks will be starting to exit London early next year in response to the supp...
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Politics
Politics
Clinton's "Open Borders" Comment And Supergrids
m2c4
10:59 AM
Donald Trump has tried mightily to make Hillary Clinton pay for the excerpt of a speech she gave to a Brazilian bank that was released by Wi...
