Follow-up on 6/14: Looks like we have an answer to one of the questions – is it the NSA lying about cooperation or CEOs like Sergei Brin and Mark Zuckerberg? According to this article by Bloomberg reporter […]

If genius is the ability to see connections among things, people, places, and events that no else can see, Stirling has been blessed with genius, and not just brilliance, which is also an adjective that many […]

I believe the decline in the right’s opposition to gay marriage came about after the Ted Haggard and Sen. Larry Craig scandals (plus a few others at the time involving prominent Christian right leaders). The […]

It’s not that they are becoming more frequent, but they are becoming more intense. Something to do with more moisture in the atmosphere and warmer overall temperatures leading to a higher number of F3 – F5 […]

Way, way back in the 50s and 60s, corporations in America focused on two or three constituencies: the customers, the employees, and the community. The stockholders (not yet called the shareholders) were far down […]

I’m sure it did. But Oklahoma is a deep red state that has elected men like Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both of whom routinely vote against disaster relief bills for storms like Hurricane Sandy. If President Obama or […]

Can’t disagree. The guy has no friends. He’s spent five years cozying up to Republicans who hate him and turning his back on the Democrats who used to love him. He’s abandoned Democratic Party principles and […]

Hi Scott,

I’ve been following framing lumber prices, which peaked in March and have fallen significantly since then. Some mills are reporting either a drop-off in orders or a collapse in orders during this […]

I would visit the George W. Bush museum if it had a waterboarding exhibit. I hope the planners for the Barack Obama museum are incorporating a Guantanamo forced feeding exhibit.

Hi Scott,

I hinted that there was something existential about Japan’s 20 year fight with deflation, zero interest rates, and zero growth. Japan has been challenged by something that is like anti-matter to […]

Thanks Don. While Arnie has a point that you are a Renaissance man with a variety of intellectual interests, your connection to the earth and the work necessary to produce something of value through agriculture […]

I’m trying to understand this response by China. I get the hypocrisy of it; the world is flooded with more hyprocrisy from its politicians and media than it is by liquidity generated through Quantitative Easing. […]

I was trying to think how to respond to Arnie, but I believe this quote says it better than I could:

All currency is fiat currency – gold, dollars, bitcoins, because it all comes out of the willingness of […]

We have two models we can follow.

Model One requires the bankers to manage their assets (loans and investments) judiciously, so as to minimize losses from credit defaults and still generate an interest return […]

This is probably the best laugh and maybe the only one I’m going to get ouf of this crisis.