…The gubmint is gonna buy $10 billion worth of (non-dilutive, non-voting) shares, for which it gets essentially, well, nothing. Nothing at all. Goldman will go about its business. So… Goldman…

by cactus Some thoughts on the bail-out: 1. Goldman’s market cap is about 50 billion. The gubmint is gonna buy $10 billion worth of (non-dilutive, non-voting) shares, for which it…

Voting: I’d Like a Receipt, Please I’m really not a conspiracy theorist, just a subscriber to Murphy’s Law (see this post.) Recently, Avi Ruben of Johns Hopkins’ Information Security Institute…

…heard a commentator on NPR claiming that voter turnout, when computed in the usual fashion (as a percentage of the voting-age population) is in fact down. However, the decline is…

…said. “It takes away the voting rights of those citizens who have worked so hard to keep from being disenfranchised.” This struck me because, having been to both Galveston and…

…the Court that states and voting districts within states are people too, the Constitution’s structure will suffice, if the oral argument this spring in the current Voting Rights case is…

…breaks with redistricting. In addition, there is Voting Right Act provisions to protect minorities. Detroit votes 97-3%D. Unless you break the APOL laws or dilute the black vote, you are…

…in November will mean something much more than just a vote for Clinton or a vote against Trump. Most of us will be out en force on election day, voting…

…now considering voting for Trump. And whose vote could turn on such things as discussions about what political consultants wouldn’t dream of advising their clients to discuss, but that Sanders…

…a vote directly for you. Because I am a reflection of you. “You’re voting as people who believe in yourselves. You are voting to believe in your future. You are…