G20 AND G8 NATIONS CONFERENCE: WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THESE GET TOGETHERS ABOUT?
Every year the twenty nations with the largest economies get together. First there is a meeting of the twenty and then the eight biggest sit down for a mutual admiration show. For me it is all about the photo shoot and the phony jocularity between twenty kiss-ass leaders competing for the biggest smile. More comes [...]
MR BERNANKE, IT’S ABOUT JOBS AND NOTHING ELSE
Federal Reserve Chief, Ben Bernanke reported this week everything is on track and he sees very positive steps towards a rapidly strengthening and robust economy. The indicators he chooses simply play into the hands of Wall Street so they can get back to doing business as usual; arranging mergers and acquisitions, trading bogus bonds, naked [...]
DALAI LAMA MEETS THE PRESIDENT
This week Hollywood arrived to conquer Capitol Hill in the form of that clown, the Dalai Lama who is adored by celebrities like Richard Gere. The guy has been at loggerheads with China which has sovereignty over Tibet. Poor guy has to live in the lap of luxury in exile in neighboring India and traveling [...]
NO WONDER EDUCATORS EARN LITTLE RESPECT THESE DAYS
Professor Richard Levin, President of Yale recently visited England on a lecture tour. In one of his interviews he predicted that Oxford and Cambridge Universities as well as the other six American and two London Universities that make up the top ten learning institutions in the world will not only be overtaken by Chinese institutions [...]






