The president has appointed Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve. Here is some information about her monetary mindset, by way of a post written on 03.14.10, when Yellen was made vice chair of the Fed: In an economy of high unemployment and inflation, Barack Obama has gone and appointed as … chair of the […Read On]
Debt, Democrats, Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, Government, Republicans
Are you able to tease apart Republican “sequesteria” from the Democratic position on the effects of a miniscule decrease in the increase in US government spending, for this year? I can’t. The Democrats are adamant that a cut in oink-sector spending will destroy the chances of an economic recovery and will lower GDP. It didn’t […Read On]
Bill O’Reilly has a ludicrous segment on The Factor, where he pretends to introduce his listeners to English words that he supposedly uses. Last week he introduced the word “chimera,” in which he pronounced the “ch” as you would in “chimp.” Having actually used this lovely word before I was convinced that the “ch” was […Read On]
Energy, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Regulation, Technology
“Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Hurricane Sandy shows why the U.S. needs to improve its energy infrastructure.” “The issue that needs to be raised [and won’t],” says Giuliani, who knows a thing or two about the New York locality, is, “we don’t have the modern energy infrastructure that we should have. We’re […Read On]