Tag: Wall Street

I haven’t heard the president ask this for a while. Any idea why? Today, mine sucks btw.

That would be President Donald I am running for re-election on the stock market Trump! Whoops? Now granted the drops due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus is worldwide and beyond his control. But certainly some of the uncertainty is tied to his totally inept handling of the issue so far…

Remember during the presidential campaign when president-elect Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” that is Washington, D.C.? I do, but what I don’t remember is when on the campaign trail he promised to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse, but that’s exactly what he seems poised…

In computer programming I have always been a proponent of naming data items, objects, programs, files, etc with names that essentially describe what they do or what they contain. Makes sense…but it’s not always followed and often leads to misunderstandings and code errors years later. Which brings us to the…

On December 13, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 56-40 to approve H.R. 83, the so-called “CRomnibus” bill, a $1.1 trillion, nine-month omnibus spending bill that will keep the federal government fully funded through September 2015. Among the Democratic Senators who voted for the CRomnibus bill was progressive Sen. Tammy Baldwin of…

The whole #OWS Occupy Movement while important, seems to have happened a year to late. In 2010, the law firm of Steven J Baum, threw a Halloween party. What better way to show contempt for the American people than to dress like them for halloween? Before we get to the…

As I read this article about wealthy Wall Street executives turning their backs on President Barack Obama and are instead donating to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, this gem caught my eye: “It’s not healthy for rich people to feel maligned,” the executive said. Yeah, I really feel bad for…

Full disclosure, I was working on a blog in January excoriating Mike Tate for the results of the last election and what he was planning for 2012. I was going to focus on the fact that I felt he has not been focusing on the 1st congressional district. After speaking…

Depending on where you work, this might not be work-friendly (but is sure is funny):

I mentioned recently that David Cay Johnston recently weighed in on the situation in Wisconsin where he pointed out: The average Wisconsin state employee gets $24,500 a year. That’s not a very big pension. The state pension plan, 15% of the money going into it each year is being paid…