Thanks to the wonders of YouTube there are now hundreds of videos online about all the financial TV punditry that was horribly, terribly, awfully, totally and completely dead wrong over the last couple years. Not that any of you are taking your investment cues from Fox News, but there is an inevitable vertigo (or is [...]
So says a candid President Bush, in an interview set to air today with Charlie Gibson of ABC News. GIBSON: What were you most unprepared for? BUSH: Well, I think I was unprepared for war. In other words, I didn’t campaign and say, “Please vote for me, I’ll be able to handle an attack.” In [...]
It’s official, we’ve been in a recession for a year now. But, hey, don’t let that spoil your cyber Monday.
Watching the Obama rollout of his national security team from overseas–I’m in Europe, on my way to Afghanistan–I was struck by the inanity of most of the questions from my colleagues. Granted, these are political reporters, not national security or foreign policy specialists, but what sort of journalist expects the President-elect to tell the “inside [...]
There is no agency that has more effect on our day-to-day safety than the Food and Drug Administration. It is also responsible for maintaining consumer confidence in products that account for one-quarter of our economy. And yet, the Bush Administration has set it adrift. For more than half of the past eight years, it hasn’t [...]
