Blocking Flu Shots
…vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, single-handedly decided to refuse to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, overruling agency scientists, according to reports from Stat News and The Wall Street…
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Stock market at new highs
“Stock market at new highs, even with Strait of Hormuz still closed. What is Wall Street thinking?!?” – by New Deal democrat As I type this, there are two particularly salient…
The Large Number of Hedge Fund Managers Near Fort Rucker, Ala. (A Suggested Response to the Republicans’ Simple Response(s).)
…under-10-minute address, that John Boehner wasn’t quite accurate when he said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday that: [A]s the president’s outrage about the sequester grows in coming days,…
… But Also Don’t Miss Glenn Greenwald’s Piece Today on Obama’s First-Term Appalling Justice Dept. – UPDATED
…resignation? The good news? Well, maybe this is really bad news for some key Wall Street folks. The statute of limitations on a relevant federal criminal statute, (acronym, “RICO”), is…
Was Romney’s Bain-Era IRA Tactic Really Legal In That Circumstance? [with UPDATE from Business Insider]
…Mark Maremont, writing in The Wall Street Journal, uncovered a likely explanation. When Bain Capital bought companies, it would create two classes of shares, named A and L. The A…
Fodder For a Great Blog Post
…wanted to share an oped from this weekend’s Wall Street Journal that I thought you might find interesting (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324009304579040671355619380.html and pasted below). It’s by Brad Smith, a former chairman of…
Ted Olson Wants Congress to Bar the Koch Brothers’ Contributions to Incumbents. I Say: Good Idea!
…the First Amendment. When politicians seek to restrict speech, they are invariably trying to pr otect their own incumbency. By Theodore B. Olson, Wall Street Journal, today Hmmm. The McCain-Feingold…
Populist rehetoric for the election campaign
Via The Dailey Beast is a link to Lehman Brother’s e-mails and documents and an unanswered question for investors and the public With the Occupy protesters resuming battle stations, and…
Santorum Surge, Part 144
…three Republican elections yesterday would occupy…the 144th largest MSA,* just behind Eugene-Springfield, Oregon (351,715). The Santorum Surge: Smaller than Peoria (#135), bigger than Kalamazoo (#148). *I resist saying “Gross!” at…
‘Bank Transfer Day’, What Really Just Happened?
‘Bank Transfer Day’, What Really Just Happened? James Van Dyke points to some numbers on the move to transfer funds out of big banks: Bank Transfer Day and the Occupy…