Archive for July 16th, 2010
Yes, you read that right – from the Wall Street Journal: Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council [...]
From Zero Hedge: We are a rather surprised that this morning’s stunning Treasury International Capital report has not gotten far more prominent attention. The reason: in it we read that in May 2010, China dumped $33 billion in Treasuries, bringing its total to the lowest since June 2009. Furthermore, Japan also offloaded $8.8 billion in [...]
Victor Davis Hanson over at NRO’s The Corner suspects he might not: …With a Republican takeover, Obama — far from repeating Bill Clinton’s reaction to his congressional reproof in 1994 — could go the other way, becoming a far better progressive purist and liberal icon, unwilling to compromise his redistributive beliefs in the face of [...]