Nouriel Roubini gave his two cents worth yesterday to Barney Frank and committee.

Information Clearinghouse caught this item about ME banks and soveriegn funds (the same) de-pegging from the dollar to help curb their inflation woes. Alan Greenspan recommends doing so I believe. I think the current discussion on the US economy is much less thorough than need be.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Just sounding the broken record: Money from money. I have posted about the share of our money coming from licensing agreements. I’ve posted Bogle’s opinion that we have $560 billion/yr loss because we focus to much on the finance end of making money. I’ve shown that there has not been enough money in the hands […]

Red State is a closed comment website. What are they afraid of?

Another post from the counteterrorism blog from WAPO has a different twist: What the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan have in common is that it will take a major and consistent U.S. effort throughout the next administration at least to win either war. Any American political debate that ignores or denies the fact that these […]

One opinion on the Protect America Act offers a viewpoint that caught my eye. On the other hand, there were lots of opinions about this in posts. While I agree with my colleagues, Dennis Lormel and Jeffrey Breinholt, that renewal of the Protect America Act should be considered by Congress as urgent and serious business, […]

Politico carries this observation about CNN: CNN’s question: Obama’s patriotism I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen a reader poll like this on a mainstream media website (or, to be honest, a right-wing blog). This is currently on CNN.com. And just today (in a very interesting exchange with the Cleveland Jewish community) Obama was touting […]

It is evident that this will lead to less pressure on the Drug Companies to get their drugs approved by the FDA. I would suggest that we consider letting the market help. i.e. 1) If a drug is prescribed off-label, then the patient be permitted to return it to the drug store for a full […]

FDA doesn’t just approve drugs, it approves drugs for specific uses. However, doctors can prescribe drugs for unapproved, or “off-label,” uses. Under a law that expired in 2006, pharmaceutical reps were legally able to distribute journal articles touting the benefits of off-label uses. But, according to the Associated Press, FDA maintained some regulatory oversight: “Under […]