How Monica Lewinsky Changed the Media … Monica Lewinsky's 'Vanity Fair' article reluctantly plunges us straight back into the frothing world of '90s gossip. It may be painful but it answers so many questions about today's media. The Monica Lewinsky confessional in Vanity Fair brings back a torrent of unfond memories of the appalling cast of tabloid gargoyles who drove the...Read More
Fighting for the future of conservativism … Establishment Republicans have been delighted by the victory of Thom Tillis, their favored candidate in last week's North Carolina primary. After expensive advertising campaigns by establishment bagmen like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove's American Crossroads, mainstream conservatives believe they have a candidate who can beat D...Read More
How Monica Lewinsky Changed the Media … Monica Lewinsky's 'Vanity Fair' article reluctantly plunges us straight back into the frothing world of '90s gossip. It may be painful but it answers so many questions about today's media. The Monica Lewinsky confessional in Vanity Fair brings back a torrent of unfond memories of the appalling cast of tabloid gargoyles who drove the...Read More
No reason for these stock market jitters … "Sell in May and go away." This stock market adage has served investors well four years in a row. Every year since 2010, stock markets around the world have suffered significant corrections between a high reached in May and a low in the summer or early autumn: by 15 percent in 2010, 19 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2012 and 5 percent in 20...Read More
Don't worry, Scotland is not going to vote for independence. That is what people opposed to the idea have tended to think until now. But the Yes campaign has gained ground lately, winning hearts and minds. How is it doing that? What will happen next? And will it be enough to deliver a victory that breaks up the union? – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: What will happen next? Will Scotl...Read More
No reason for these stock market jitters … "Sell in May and go away." This stock market adage has served investors well four years in a row. Every year since 2010, stock markets around the world have suffered significant corrections between a high reached in May and a low in the summer or early autumn: by 15 percent in 2010, 19 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2012 and 5 percent in 20...Read More
Don't worry, Scotland is not going to vote for independence. That is what people opposed to the idea have tended to think until now. But the Yes campaign has gained ground lately, winning hearts and minds. How is it doing that? What will happen next? And will it be enough to deliver a victory that breaks up the union? – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: What will happen next? Will Scotl...Read More
Fed Chair Unsure If Capitalism or Oligarchy Describes the U.S. … "Are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over into an oligarchic form of society in which incredible economic and political power now rests with the billionaire class?" Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist, asked that question of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday...Read More
Uruguay Legalizes Pot, Stumbles … Uruguay's decision last year to legalize marijuana was sold to the country's citizens as a way to defeat the criminal gangs responsible for almost all of the 22 tons of pot that are grown or smuggled into the country every year. The trouble is that the latest rules, as designed, suggest that the country may end up undermining the law's intended g...Read More
Fed Chair Unsure If Capitalism or Oligarchy Describes the U.S. … "Are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over into an oligarchic form of society in which incredible economic and political power now rests with the billionaire class?" Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist, asked that question of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday...Read More
Uruguay Legalizes Pot, Stumbles … Uruguay's decision last year to legalize marijuana was sold to the country's citizens as a way to defeat the criminal gangs responsible for almost all of the 22 tons of pot that are grown or smuggled into the country every year. The trouble is that the latest rules, as designed, suggest that the country may end up undermining the law's intended g...Read More
End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists … Global War on Drugs … The decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it's time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights, according to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists. The report, titled "Ending the Drug Wars" and put together by the London Schoo...Read More
NSA to Control the Stock Market … Spy agency can easily manipulate the market through latest surveillance hub … An upcoming surveillance hub monitoring all investment transactions in real-time will allow the National Security Agency unparalleled ability to manipulate the stock market. – Infowars via DrudgeDominant Social Theme: Buy and hold is the name of the game. The stock mark...Read More
End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists … Global War on Drugs … The decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it's time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights, according to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists. The report, titled "Ending the Drug Wars" and put together by the London Schoo...Read More
NSA to Control the Stock Market … Spy agency can easily manipulate the market through latest surveillance hub … An upcoming surveillance hub monitoring all investment transactions in real-time will allow the National Security Agency unparalleled ability to manipulate the stock market. – Infowars via DrudgeDominant Social Theme: Buy and hold is the name of the game. The stock mark...Read More
In the first quarter of 2014, Canadian Utilities, or CU, earned an adjusted $186 million, or 71 cents a share. This was up marginally from adjusted earnings of $180 million, or 70 cents a share, a year earlier. This year's adjusted earnings exclude rate adjustments and dividends on preferred shares. Include these and CU's earnings attributable to shareholders jumped to $221 million. That was up by...Read More
Economics Economists, Show Your Assumptions … What if I told you that jumping off a cliff is entirely safe, except for gravity? Would you find my prediction insightful or useful? Strange as it may seem, this is precisely the kind of logic that underpins many of the models that economists build to help them understand the world — and even to make policy recommendations on things such as...Read More
Economics Economists, Show Your Assumptions … What if I told you that jumping off a cliff is entirely safe, except for gravity? Would you find my prediction insightful or useful? Strange as it may seem, this is precisely the kind of logic that underpins many of the models that economists build to help them understand the world — and even to make policy recommendations on things such as...Read More
Final fed climate report will present dire picture … The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans' daily lives and will worsen – conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report to be released Tuesday. – APDominant Social Theme: Times are grim and getting hotter.Free-Market Analysis: The US government is repor...Read More
Inside Monsanto … The company is using its biotech muscle to genetically engineer crops — but also beef up traditional cross-breeding. Say the term "genetically modified organism," or GMO, and you're bound to get some strong opinions. But what is it? And should we be afraid? Like it or not, humans have been in the business of genetically changing organisms since we first...Read More