I was at my desk in Tokyo when the Great Sendai Earthquake hit yesterday (3/11/2011).  I'm from California and I've ridden out any number of earthquakes there and here in Japan.  This one was one of those ones where you start to think about hiding under your desk but you don't… Read full post »

It's been a while since the financial crisis of 2008 but we're still dealing with the repercussions of it.  One of the points that was brought out by that crisis was the notion of entities that are "too big to fail".  These included the mega-banks, GM and Chrysler at the time. … Read full post »

University of California President Mark Yudof today said that the UC system is facing a budget shortfall of $1 billion dollars because the State of California is planning on reducing its contribution to the University.  He stated that UC will have to turn away tens of thousands of qualified stud… Read full post »

 Civil libertarians have been warning for a while about the massive amounts of data the U.S. government has been collecting on its citizens.  Past performance has long shown that the government will misuse the information it gathers.

The continuing retort from those in favor of government s… Read full post »

Rush Limbaugh has picked up the mantle of destroyer of the Republican Party from George W. Bush with his continued statements that he wants President Obama to fail.

Nobody expects the opposition party to be full of sweetness and light about their opponents.  That's the way the game is… Read full post »

Earlier I wrote about my experience with Chase doubling the interest rate on our business card.  I called Chase and was told that they were raising rates on all of the business accounts and I could either take the rate increase or close the account and pay it off at the… Read full post »

Hmm, looks like Keith Olbermann has already given Congressman Steve Austria a pretty good kick for his attempts to rewrite history and make FDR the cause of the Great Depression but I gotta get a lick in here too.

Where is this idea coming from? It must be a new RNC talking point… Read full post »

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review wrote an article bashing FDR and the New Deal.  Before digging into it, I'd like to make a few observations:

1) I thought being a conservative was about favoring solutions that worked in the past over new-fangled ideas

2) Can't we get over FDR De… Read full post »

Well, people are missing their debt payments.  Of course, the media is only reporting what the banks are saying, which is that people are missing their payments.  The media is not reporting that banks are doubling people's interest rate all over the place.

 So what should ban… Read full post »

I'm sickened by the banking and finance industry in the United States.  We are in the midst of a huge financial crisis, largely created by the finance industry.  The US government and taxpayers have given billions of dollars to the banks to try to temper this crisis.  And what do the… Read full post »