I was just watching CNBC and they did a piece on a new Israeli company called SodaStream whose stock they are likening to Green Mountain Coffee or Netflix. Fad or lasting convenience was the basic question. I have struggled with what to drink for years. If it didn’t have 170 calories per [...]

It is passing strange that a week or so after the Obama administration declared it would be taking a tough line on speculation and shortly after the Fed was roundly abused for a lackluster performance in its 1st press conference and for not taking any responsibility for the run-up in commodities due to its outrageously [...]

Cramer was just on CNBC ranting about how the markets had failed. Erin Burnett the idiot was just lapping it all up. The massive unwind in energy has him all excited. $10 down in a day in crude is a very very big move. His takeaway? The Government should control [...]

Barney Frank is out again with his legislation that would strip regional Federal Reserve Bank Presidents of their right to vote on monetary policy. In other words they would presumably no longer sit on the Federal Open Market Committee. What a good idea! Then we can have only political appointees beholden to [...]

Apparently they have buried Bin Laden at sea in accordance with the muslim religious requirement that the body be buried within 24 hours. How convenient. So how do we know he is dead? Trust us. The problem is that most people have very little faith in government at all. And [...]