…profound interest in Islam. He was all things to all people in part precisely because of his Peter Pan syndrome. A child can grow up to become anything, after all….

rdan Transcript of speech via CBS News. Economist View points to Peter Orzag in Financial Times….

…Clinton says that although he regrets not regulating derivatives more strictly, he doesn’t think that repealing the Glass-Steagall Act and allowing commercial banks to merge with investment banks was a…

…and Peter Germanis in 1983 with the publication of ‘Social Security Reform: Achieving a ‘Leninist’ Strategy’, something discussed here last May. What does Lenin have to do with it? Well…

rdan Peter Morici has a take on the economy and measures taken so far. Some Angry Bears do not agree, some do. Anyone willing to tackle the question of good…

…or misspelling LexisNexis or even talking about a new sequel to the Matrix. It is instead the question to be applied to the following list of names? Jeb Bush, Dick…

…Kenneth Rogoff and Ben Bernanke, are given star billing. Yves post is worth reading. Here are some links to Angry Bear posts on the trade deficit and the current crisis,…

Forty years ago, in 1968, an American major after the battle of Ben Tre in Viet Nam was quoted by Peter Arnett as having declared, “It became necessary to destroy…

…the lower 1% or so. Trade has relied on ‘letters of credit’ to keep goods flowing. Correspondingly ‘sovereign bartering’ between governments is increasing as pricing becomes increasingly difficult due to…

…of the question, even if you are Goldfinger in 007. Where does one go? 4. If the pirates are not terrorists willing to destroy the tanker or something similar for…