Fiscal Cliff Hostility
Has the fiscal cliff come down to this? With Europe entering another recession and with the billions of dollars of damages and millions of emotionally paralyzed Americans on the East Coast, do we need...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff Stalemate
Please forgive my political ignorance, but why do we not have a solution to the fiscal cliff? Just about every CEO in the country is pushing for a balanced resolution. The President returned to the...
View ArticleBernanke and The Fiscal Cliff
Wednesday morning saw US equity markets climb slightly higher as commodities also rose while the US dollar gave ground to the euro and hit four month lows against the Australian and New Zealand dollar....
View ArticleRepublicans Hide Behind Divide
The only thing House and Senate Republicans have agreed upon since 2010 is their commitment to derail the President of the United States. With new unemployment numbers dropping to 7.7 percent,...
View ArticleRepublicans Give Obama The Artful Dodge
In his previous life, John Boehner must have been an elusive running back. He has mastered the art of showing a little skin and pulling it away as quickly as possible. Republicans are moving ever so...
View ArticleRepublicans Reeling, Boehner Surrenders
Republicans Reeling, Boehner Surrenders House Majority Speaker, John Boehner, supposedly the most powerful Republican politician in the country, met his match Thursday in an embarrassing non-vote that...
View ArticleSequester: Main Street loses, Wall Street Gains
From whatever point of view you see the sequester impasse, the inability of Washington politicians to put aside the interests of a few in order to serve the people should unsettle markets around the...
View ArticleObama’s Budget May Bring Parties To Table
While proclaimed “Dead Upon Arrival” the Obama budget appears to be getting more play behind the closed doors of Congress than either the Republican House budget proposed by tarnished presidential...
View ArticleWhat Have They Done!
70 percent of Americans have a question for the Republican members of the House of Representative; “What have you done?” The majority of Americans don’t really care how or why Republicans got to a...
View ArticleThe Ho Hum Budget Deal
The budget deal that should have been went by the wayside giving way to a lackluster budget that does little to deal with the real issues facing the US economy and society. The contentious House of...
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