This is a subject which is very interesting to me because I happen to be a guy who owned a whole series of clunker cars and trucks over the years because I couldn’t justify the expense of a new vehicle/a good vehicle/a better vehicle/a vehicle…
September 8th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 4 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "budget"
Madoff Astonished SEC Didn’t Verify His Claims
In response, the SEC says it “doesn’t have the resources” necessary to keep an eye on “the exploding number of financial firms.”
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
RIP Robert S. McNamara and California’s Holes in its Budget
Robert McNamara must have been in a hurry too. He never had time to wonder why he was sending 500,000 American boys to fight a war when Lyndon Johnson was “publicly promising in campaign speeches not to ‘go North,’ not to send American boys to fight wars Asian boys ought to fight for themselves,”…
July 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Geithner’s Trip to China Was, At Best, a Draw
His goal was to bluff and bamboozle the world’s investors – notably China – into believing that the US had its finances under control. Once we’re out of this mess, he told China’s top man, we’re going straight.
June 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued