Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick A few years back we had the “million man march”. This weekend, we had the “two million people march”. As President Barack Obama flew to Minnesota on Saturday to rally support for his health care plan, a sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National [...]
Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick It amazes me that our politicians can sink the US$ just to save their political bacon. But it seems that it’s built into to the human psyche that we can’t handle anything bad and then we have MEN who seemingly want to FIX everything, even if we’re just postponing the break until [...]
Article Source – www.bloomberg.com By Mayumi Otsuma Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s central bank policy makers said they remain concerned about the strength of a recovery even after raising their assessment of the nation’s economy. Officials kept the benchmark overnight lending rate at 0.1 percent, and maintained their emergency lending programs to banks and companies. [...]
Author: michael Webster By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. According to Mexico’s largest newspaper El Universal a Guerrero state senator was assassinated. State Senator Armando Chavarria Barrera, leader of the Congress of the state of Guerrero, was assassinated by gunmen in front of his home yesterday morning. The Senator was one of the most renowned [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve won a delay of a federal judge’s order that it reveal the names of the banks that have participated in its emergency lending programs and the sums they received. Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan stayed her August 24 order in favor [...]
Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick Ah the games we do play. Two plus two equals four unless you would like it to be six. Statistics are whatever one says they are regardless of what they really are. And that goes for the phony government statistics regardless of which party is in power. Politics is about control and [...]