Opinion

Labels: economyusamoney

Wow, talk about big government… The SEC misses the big one and now they are poking around in PRIVATE transactions!!? How does that work? Where does this end? Is the SEC going investigate when the flower shop on one corner buys the rival on the other corner, or baseball card sales, or art sales, or non-dealer car sales? Is the SEC busy barking up every other tree, to distract the public from a real scam? Hmm, why do these private transactions happen?

Oh that is right… 1) Sarbanes-Oxley effectively made it illegal to come to market unless of course your mission is to rip off the public. 2) Some companies augment compensation in stock and the employee for personal reasons wishes to convert their relatively inconvertible wealth...

Labels: global warming

The science is in! The high topography of Asia influences the atmosphere in profound ways. The jet stream, a river of fast-flowing air five to seven miles above sea level, bends around Asia’s mountains in a wavelike pattern, much as water in a stream flows around a rock or boulder. The energy from these atmospheric waves, like the energy from a sound wave, propagates both horizontally and vertically.

As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past...

Labels: usa

America is approaching economic collapse. The big problem appears to be coming from Municipal Bonds which may soon be going into default. Municipals are bonds issued by Cities and States, not Federal Bonds. The Fed is selling their own bonds to themselves by having the Federal Reserve Bank buy the Treasuries which is a joke amounting to nothing more than plugging up holes in the dyke...

Labels: world

Who did we under-appreciate in 2010? In the endless whirr of 24/7 corporate news, the people who actually make a difference are often trampled in the stampede to the next forgettable news-nugget like Lady Gaga's meat-dress. So in the final moments of this year, let's look a few people who deserved more of our attention.

Under-Appreciated Person One: Bradley Manning. While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified...

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