CNBC stock "analyst" Jim Cramer is getting lots of well-deserved mockery for giving some spectacularly bad investment advice, and then compounding his mistakes by denying them.Yglesias points out that the whole business Cramer and his ilk are involved in is a contemporary version of entrail...
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These sublimely clueless musings from Lisa Schiffern at the Corner illustrate the strange belief system of the GOP's true ideological base, which is made up mostly of the American version.
Michael Lewis has a fascinating and horrifying piece in the current Vanity Fair on how Iceland went bankrupt.A handful of guys in Iceland, who had no experience of finance, were.
One of my favorite bits of right-wing nonsense is the meme being replicated on the internets by Glenn Reynolds et. al. this morning about how the problem with taxing high income earners is that they won't "work hard" if they have to give more of...
I'm betting that according to Larry Kudlow this means we need to deregulate the markets and cut taxes.
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of when I started publishing a weekly column in the Rocky Mountain News. This afternoon Scripps Howard announced that the RMN, which is.
One uncomfortable truth about this still incredibly rich country is that fully half of middle-aged and older Americans own essentially nothing. The median 50-year-old has no retirement savings to speak of. Not "inadequate savings to retire comfortably with," but none, or so close to none...
Scott noted a couple of days ago that something doesn't become a "simmering controversy" because professional lunatic Alan Keyes thinks it's a controversy. That's true -- Keyes after all is.
I've just read (actually re-read -- first time was about 20 years ago) Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, his 1932 study of the Spanish bullfight. There's a lot of interesting.
My friend Steve, who has been married for more than a decade, points out to me that if you're married or "in a relationship" as they say on Facebook you've got at least four days a year when the gods of consumer capitalism you have...
"How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health issues raise the possibility that the SCOTUS may soon not have any women on it. If Ginsburg retires, the pressure on Obama to nominate a woman.