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Torture–It’s the Economy, Stupid….

and both democratic institutions and ordinary Americans are the losers. As one commentator on the Naked Capitalism post noted: The only people who are intelligent, informed, AND support torture are…

Taxes and Private Sector

…opposed to losers like you and me) to retreat, armadillo-like, into their underground Galtian burrows in the sky. The end result is that the economy tanks and we all starve…

"Should we return to the Certificate of Need (CON)?

…have created a continuum of care that minimizes the need for nursing home beds. So should we allocate health care capital via the government? What happens to the political losers?…

$900 billion for you the citizen…never

…taken one heck of a hit recently, so its not just a matter of picking what to avoid. We avoided all the big losers, and still got hammered. So if…

Is Anyone Crawling to the USA???

Floyd Norris lists the Unlucky 13, a.k.a., my portfolio.* Ignoring AIG (of which more later, maybe), here are the top Market Cap losers in the S&P 500 YTD, who combined…