Archives by Tag 'financial crisis'

World Government

By Tom - Last updated: Tuesday, December 9, 2008

  Did you see this article about World Government?          When I think of World Government, I think of those old Science Fiction movies, like the Original "Roller Blade", with James Caan.  The notion was that government was really global big business.  Leadership was corporate leadership; people were all in their little [...]

Chicken Little sings for his supper.

By Tom - Last updated: Thursday, October 9, 2008

  I know.  The economic world is coming to an end.  America will soon be thrown on the scrap-heap of once-great nations.  And the news is full of its ominous buzz.   Economic Tsunami   Global Financial Meltdown     And not just a Mortgage Crisis, but a Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis.     Perhaps [...]

A last minute Reprieve…

By Tom - Last updated: Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Wall Street Bailout Bill, heralded by all those experts as Economic Nirvana, was killed in a rather dramatic and ignoble vote of  228 Nay and 205 Yea.   And it was stupidity we have to thank for such a miracle.  Serendipitous, perhaps, but stupidity nonetheless!  You know that old sage saying: When the stupidity, of [...]