Archive for January, 2010

Publisher Mike Rough
O: Our most urgent — our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis. It was not easy to do. And if there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans — and everybody in between — it’s that we all hated the [...]

Publisher Michael Rough
O: One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt. Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression.
M: A year has [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
I wrote, recently, over on Whiskey and Gunpowder, about why I am so opposed to US government aid to Haiti. It isn’t our country, we have no strategic interest there–not even Kruschev thought it worth putting missile silos on–and we have been flinging billions at those people since the time of [...]

From where I’m sitting, the overall situation is looking rather grim. James Howard Kunstler tells us that we will need to go back to an economy made by hand. Linda Brady Traynham tells us we need to become totally self-sufficient. Doug Casey tells us the situation is hopeless but not serious. Bill Bonner is still [...]