Archive for Wall St.
It’s a Surprise
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Chris Dodd and Nancy Pelosi explain here that you have to pass their 2000 page bills to find out what’s in them.
William Saletan has an interesting piece in Slate detailing how Kagan, while working in the Clinton White House, doctored a report on partial birth abortion by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists. He points out that the report was taken as expert opinion in court rulings. If she gets on the Supreme Court and overturns a ruling because it was based on her original lie, would that make her an activist judge?
Wall Street’s Fat Finger of Fate
Posted by: | CommentsThe Dow plunged 1000 points yesterday and bounced back 500 in about 20 minutes. Some experts suspect someone pushed the wrong button.
Short Shorts
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Holman Jenkins says the subtext of yesterday’s Senate panel grilling was that it’s unpatriotic not to lose money when home values plummet.
Early Warning System
Posted by: | CommentsGordon Crovitz shows how John Paulson saw the housing crash coming and told the investment world about it through the complicated financial gadget he conjured up with Goldman Sachs. Click here for his column in the WSJ.
Dow Decade
Posted by: | CommentsTwelve Steps to More Fame, Money, and Power
Posted by: | CommentsThomas Sowell had another good column last week in which he asked the age old question, “why is Tiger apologizing to me?”.
All the States Above Average
Posted by: | CommentsArnold Schwarzenegger said on Meet the Press Sunday that the federal government owes the Golden State. He claims that his state only gets back $0.78 on the dollar from the feds while Alaska gets $1.86. (I accidentally cheated the mushers out of $0.56 in the cartoon.) Go here to see this part of the interview (if you don’t want to hear the whole thing you can fast forward to the 4:50 mark). In a later section of the interview he smacks the California congressional delegation for supporting the health care bill which he says will be an economic blow to their state .







