Let’s name a few.  You are invited to add to the list. non-recourse mortgages walk-aways Solyndra type stuff bubble-after-bubble VC community almost entirely focused on social Web 2.0 15% poverty rate probably 15%+ real unemployment outsourced contractors that do a…

The more they talk, the more it becomes clear that career politicians and academics dominate the government and policy.  Time for a change!

Money sitting in US bonds is terribly unproductive, but venture capitalists that can’t break the “dot bomb” addiction continue to make net/net unproductive investments. A few college kids (with no expenses since parents and their college provide the overhead) in the US,…

Pilots fear the Death Spiral.  If the plane is already too slow, pulling back on the controls in an attempt to gain/hold altitude further slows the wing speed and increases the stall. As so-called “investors” flock to so-called “safe-haven” US…

No one (in their right mind) is going to hire in the traditional W-2 sense. No one will increase head-count unless almost forced to do so.  Do you think “Obama-care” encourages employers to add to their formal payroll? For many reasons,…

Any party to a housing bubble mortgage (performing or non-performing) won’t sleep at night if they fudged the numbers.  Borrowers, lenders, appraisers, …