Good News / Bad News
They finally got the Sonofabitch C&%*sucker Zarqawi. About time. That’s the good news; the bad news is, markets don’t...
Rating Iraq Policy
I am always surprised when a WSJ poll appears to contradict the expected rightward tilt of its readership. Today’s poll is no...
Read it Here First: Iraq war could top $2 trillion
On the eve of War, I released a study "Not-So-Hidden Agenda: Strategic and Economic Assessments of U.S. led Invasion in the Middle...
Intel versus Strategy Failure
Some people have been suggesting that the investigation into the Plamegate affair is the source of the market’s woes. I totally...
Thinking the unthinkable, predicting the unpredictable
The spin these days is that all of these disasters — 9/11, Iraq Insurgency, New Orleans flood — were both unthinkable and...
Will the US Economy Become a Victim of the Iraq War?
War is not only Hell — but Hellishly expensive: "In September 2002, the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan research...
London back to normal ?
New Economist has an interesting post about London returning to normal — by Friday: The most remarkable thing about London today is...
Stocks Stand Up to Terror
Hopefully, this will be the last of the terror charts for a long while . . . > click for larger graphic Courtesy of WSJ >...
Bush or Blair?
I always seem to be surprised by the results of the WSJ poll. My mistake is I keep impuning the very Conservative Op -Ed page with the...