Remember how Prime Minister al-Maliki was deemed to be the real problem in Iraq? Remember how his replacement, al-Abadi, was going to be the solution to America’s problems in Iraq? Remember how the US-trained Iraqi Army was going to take over the fight to protect Iraq? Every one knows how that story turned out. We have maintained that…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
This is the one-month anniversary of our most recent and the one-year anniversary of our first Contagion article. Both anniversaries may be meaningful. 1.One month can make a difference – mucho difference On September 5, we quoted CNBC’s Simon Hobbs – “We have a Contagion, whether we choose to accept it or not”. We agreed with him…
Yesterday we heard two smart conservative Republican women use the term “our guys” for Sunni Syrian rebels fighting Assad. That was a flashback for us. Because we instantly thought of the first, the original, and the most iconic “our guy” – Osama Bin Laden. It is common knowledge now that Osama Bin Laden was a cherished American asset from…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
We hold this truth to be self-evident – that our Creator is a statistically fair distributor of talent. The gift of God-given talent, especially intelligence, is delivered to all races & ethnic groups in a statistically fair distribution. Humans then do the rest, either positively to build on the Creator’s gifts or negatively to squander them. A…
We used to wonder how it was possible for Europeans to hate Jewish people with such venom? We wondered that when we read about Nazi atrocities against Jews in Germany; we wondered that when we read Shakespear’s caricature of all Jews embodied in the diatribe against Shylock; we wondered that when we read how deeply Dominic Straus Kahn…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
This week the world celebrates Ganesh Utsav, the most joyous celebration of the Indian Calendar. Ganesh is without question the most loved Divine Murti* of all. He is the Ish (the Lord) of all Gan, of all us common folk. No one is high or low in front of Ganesh. We, his Gan, are all…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TACs is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips –our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…