With unemployment remaining high and concerns growing about a jobless recovery, Congress recently passed legislation that promises to jumpstart travel, a critical sector of our economy. Best of all, this “stimulus” plan won’t cost taxpayers a single dime – in fact it will actually increase federal revenues and lower the federal budget deficit. [...]

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With unemployment remaining high and concerns growing about a jobless recovery, Congress recently passed legislation that promises to jumpstart travel, a critical sector of our economy. Best of all, this “stimulus” plan won’t cost taxpayers a single dime – in fact it will actually increase federal revenues and lower the federal budget deficit. [...]

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Paris, Winter 2008
The scene opens on the soft light of daybreak glowing over the rooftops of Paris’s 20th Arrondissement. A woman’s soothing voice says, “Over the past several months, an unrelenting roar has been mounting across the Atlantic, resonating all the way to Paris, my adopted city for the last 20 years. Something [...]

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Headline at Drudge Report: Obama policies projected to add $9.7 trillion to debt by 2020… points to this story, National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says,
President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts [...]

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For the past ten days my inbox has been filled with FDA bulletins announcing recalls of food products ranging from soup to nuts, chips to dips, packaged burritos and pasta entrees, salami, cheese, and ground red pepper. On March 4th, the FDA announced an overarching recall that links many of these products through a common [...]

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What if you paid for your Internet access as if it were a utility bill?
This is what Mr. Randall Stephenson, AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer has confirmed. Stephenson made this comment during his keynote webcast at the Morgan Stanley Conference this past Tuesday.
For the industry, we’ll progressively move towards more of what I call variable pricing, [...]

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First of all my sympathies to those in Chile who have lost their houses, their livelihoods, their family members, and their sense of stability. Last weekend’s earthquake was unquestionably damaging. At 8.8 on the Richter scale, it was also almost a hundred times more powerful than January’s quake in Haiti. Thankfully its epicenter was farther [...]

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As Lucky and I prepare for our trip to Los Angeles for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on March 7th, Lucky had to bark the question: Has an animal ever won an Academy Award (most likely to later beg the question: If so, how can she)?
The truth is that no animal has ever won an [...]

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As Lucky and I prepare for our trip to Los Angeles for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on March 7th, Lucky had to bark the question: Has an animal ever won an Academy Award (most likely to later beg the question: If so, how can she)?
The truth is that no animal has ever won an [...]

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The European Union (EU) is shocked–shocked I tell you!–that Greece used financial engineering to qualify for admission. Exactly how did they think that weaker countries managed to meet the requirements? Now the EU is concerned that geeks used their knowledge of Greece’s hidden debt (and bailout negotiations) to manipulate financial markets for their [...]

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