Don’t Blame Deregulation, Blame The Ratings Agencies
While doing research for my book, “Skullduggery! True Causes of the Financial Crisis,” I came across a 63 page “white paper” entitled “Who’s Holding the Bag?” authored More...
The Financial Crisis Routine Is Older Than You May Think
When the U.S. suffered a severe economic depression after the Panic of 1873, did politicians try the same remedies that they tried after the financial crisis? No. In 1873, the railroad industry was booming just More...
The Bloomberg Ban On Soda Was Never A Healthcare Policy
The war on…sodas? Move over alcohol and marijuana – there is a new dangerous substance in town and they’re calling it sugar. One day, you decide to treat your family to a nice meal at your favorite More...
Hackers Cripple Charles Schwab Login – Twice
Securities brokers like Charles Schwab are more dependent than ever on their Internet-based on-line trading and account access. Any of several might have been the target of today’s attack, because the malware More...
Computer Aided Learning Could Proliferate Mass Knowledge
I had been aware of the creeping intrusion of online courses in all levels of education, but had not been tuned into massive open online courses. The precursors to off campus education, for those who can remember, More...
America’s Education System: Producing the Financially Illiterate
One by-product of our nanny state and the ineffective education system is that people have no incentive to learn about financial issues. The most rudimentary financial concepts are foreign to many of our citizens. More...
Senator Cruz: “The Public Should Be Skeptical”
Whenever Congress acts in the area of political speech, the touchstone for everything we do should be the first amendment to the Constitution. - Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Sen. Cruz questioned multiple witnesses More...
Unregulated Bitcoin Mining – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Engadget.com The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, maintains a ‘black list’ of jurisdictions it considers uncooperative in the global fight against money laundering and terrorism More...
US Trade Partners Drop Dollar Intermediation
Zerohedge reported that Australia has become twice as more dependent on China for exports than Japan in the last two years.Over the weekend, Australia has decided to say goodbye to the US dollar, the world reserve More...
Dow Climbs: Is It Time To Turn The Page?
It was bound to happen. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) had once again broken a record, posting its highest closing price in history. Florida Gulf Coast University becomes the first fifteen seed to advance More...
