TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

Bank of America on Tuesday posted first-quarter results that topped analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue on stronger-than-expected...

   On again, off again, on again tariffs from The Puppet Master have enriched stock traders Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanl...

   The numbers in the Times analysis include both legal and illegal immigration. About 60 percent of immigrants who have entered the count...

T. A. Frank for Vanity Fair, here : Finally, this still isn’t the behavior of a dictator. As much as Trump blusters about libel laws a...

Frank Rich on the 5th, here : The Wall Street bandits escaped punishment, as did most of the banking houses where they thrived. Everyo...

Quoted here : "We are still creating a lot more jobs than the long-term trend which we would put at 100,000 (each month), so when...

In other words, so-called sideline cash coming into the market is really nothing more than taxcut cash reallocated to stock buy-backs by c...

How is it that Rush Limbaugh's closest thing to Reagan is a Bushie, hm? Reported here : The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted...

So says Bloomberg View  here , naming Wells Fargo as the only one which would pass: The results aren’t pretty. Using a start date of Sept. 3...

Well now, that's unusual. The 13th bank failure of 2013 occurred this past Tuesday, May 14th. Usually the FDIC waits until Friday late t...

In an editorial on February 20th, here  (which has caused quite the hubbub), Bloomberg.com maintained that most big banks are not profitable...

So says Daniel Mitchell of The Cato Institute, here : "If you’re an amoral person with political connections, it’s possible to make a l...

Hard-money conservatives like Larry Kudlow who think Gov. Mitt Romney is actually serious about maintaining the value of the dollar ought to...

"[D]espite taking office in the midst of a massive financial meltdown, Obama’s administration has not prosecuted a single heavy-hitter ...

So says Fortune ( link ), or else it's curtains for Ginnie Mae: The second catalyst [for government support of housing to decline] is th...

See the story here . We're talkin' affiliates of Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. None dare call it fasci...

So says an article at Bloomberg.com here : About 2.5 percent of global oil production moves through Egypt via the Suez Canal and the adjacen...

Because the American taxpayer has bailed out the whole world, that's why. We're now the biggest suckers in history. And the followin...

Mish has an interesting post which contrasts "corporate cash" with corporate debt. The upshot is the cash is concentrated in just ...

Here's what Mish has to say about it after excerpting reports from Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge: This is what matte...