Saturday, May 31, 2014

S&P500 rises just 0.18% to make another new high on Friday at 1923.57

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Bank Failure Number Nine: Slavie Federal in Bel Air, Maryland

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Slavie Federal Savings Bank, Bel Air, Maryland, failed last night, costing the FDIC $6.6 million. It's the ninth bank failure in 201...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Cold wintry places which had positive GDP, unlike the US under Obama (-1.0%)

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Poland     +1.10% Denmark     .89% Germany     .80% England       .80% CANADA   .70% Switzerland .50% Norway       .30%

24 from France's National Front elected to European parliament, 24 from England's UKIP

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In each case, nationalist parties won a clear plurality of seats from their countries' respective delegations, which are only 74 and...

Adam Carolla: What are female comedians doing about the lack of Jewish roofers? I demand answers!

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Here in "The gay mafia is real."

Yesterday's new high for the S&P500 at 1920.03 was a rise of just 0.425% from the previous high

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If George W. Bush had a negative GDP report, you'd never hear the end of it

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21 quarters into his presidency Barack Obama produces -1.0% GDP growth to start the year and everyone is falling all over themselves to ...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Your Michigan coalition to protect perversity includes Chambers of Commerce and big business, and The Nerd

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The Nerd is a member of a PCUSA church, aka CPUSA Reported here : The Detroit Regional Chamber and Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Co...

Bank purchases of Treasurys at highest level since 1Q 1994 help drive demand and prices higher, yields lower

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The Wall Street Journal reports here : U.S. banks also have been big buyers of government debt. Treasury bondholdings of commercial banks an...

Obama GDP Failure: 1Q 2014 GDP revised down to -1.0% from +0.1% in second estimate

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From the BEA news release here , which fails to make mention of either "winter" or "weather" in the report: Re...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

If "climate change" caused famine and brought down the Bronze Age, why did hungry conquerors DESTROY food?

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It's a question which this classicist doesn't seem to have asked himself before writing  here , in The New York Times: The m...

Brian Wesbury sounds just like the regime: Dude, that bad GDP report was so two months ago

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Brian Wesbury, here : But regardless of which part of the GDP report accounts for the downward revision, the most important thing ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

We remember and give thanks with countless others

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Sunday, May 25, 2014

I love Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal, but they can't let her on again without fixing her teeth

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Seen here . And the makeup and eyelashes are pretty bad, too. This is just criminal to do to such a good journalist.

Whack job writes in support of reparations

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Errin Haines Whack in the UK Guardian article   "The 'Case for Reparations' is solid, and it's long past time to make...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Recent Obama appointee Judge Matthew Leitman saves John Conyers' incompetent rear end

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The lead from the story in The Detroit Free Press here : U.S. Rep. John Conyers’ on-again, off-again roller-coaster ride for the Aug...

The median existing home is affordable if you make $77,577

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The median existing home in April is affordable if you make at least $77,577. Unfortunately, only about 13% of individual wage earne...

Friday's new S&P500 high at 1900.53 beats the old one by just 0.16%

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Floatin' like a butterfly . . .
Friday, May 23, 2014

Bank Failure Friday: The 500th bank failure since February 2007 and the 8th failure in 2014

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The banking crisis which began in 2007 has reached its 500th milestone. Columbia Savings Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio, failed today, the eighth ba...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Opportunity is a stern goddess to whom the only acceptable offering is cash

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Seen here , quoting a diary from the Great Depression: July, 1933: "Again and again during this depression it is driven home to...