Friday, October 10, 2008

John McCain Brings Us Good News & Bad News

4 comments:

Kentucky Rain said...

LOL! This Bill Ayers thing is laughable, particularly because it is having no negative effect on the polls.

Soros' Proxy said...

Here's the really bad news from the BBC, delivered by Harvey Pitt (chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two years until 2003):

We've got a 21st century financial services marketplace and a 19th century regulatory model.

How long before we can get some really good news?

Messenger said...

Daybreak is coming as reflected in The Huffington Post's Economic Honor Roll of foresight:

· Nouriel Roubini, NYU professor of economics: from "The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster"
· Warren Buffett, BBC News, "Buffett Warns On Investment 'Time Bomb,'" March 4, 2003
· Nassim Nicholas Taleb, from his book The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable, April 2007
· Byron Dorgan, Senator (D-ND): New York Times, "Washington's Invisible Hand," September 26, 2008
· Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist: Washington Post, "The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More," March 9, 2008
· Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, and today's Nobel Prize winner, Greenspan and the Bubble

Soros' Proxy said...

The brain trust on the right is bankrupt. The authoriative conservative British journal, Economist, conducts a survey of economists on Bush and his successors. On a scale of 1-5, five being best, the score is:

* Bush 2.0
* McCain 2.2
* Obama 3.3