There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...

The most significant story of the day asserts that the American financial system is effectively insolvent. I’ve been asserting similar things for a while now, but had become concerned that such views were turning me into a crank. I even had Dymphna put me on a 24-hour Crank Watch, to make sure tha...

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The World Last Week -Some guy named Pat Quinn took over from Rod Blagojevich as governor of Illinois, which means that Illinois replaced a guy who had the name of a James Bond villain with a guy whose name sounds like that of a character in one of those terrible coming-of-age-in-America novels....

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The wildcat strike in the UK has been settled. If you remember, workers had gone on strike in protest against the hiring of foreign workers at an oil refinery. The refinery reached a settlement with the workers in true “stimulus� fashion: they couldn’t legally lay off the foreign workers, so t...