The Beijing government is celebrating the crushing of the uprising by sending in the troops and maintaining the media blackout of Tibet. At least the Olympics helped change everything with China.The Chinese government has made life "hell on Earth" for Tibetans during the half-century since a failed ...

The banks the Senator Shelby is suggesting to fail are the mega banks that are well known around the world. Those banks are in fact, too big to fail. (Year to date the US has closed at least 17 banks, so plenty have failed.) At this point in time it's only going to make matters worse if the US was t...

Again, where are the Republicans who were so damned eager to ram Social Security through these pirates? It's bad enough 401K plans are relatively unregulated and Wall Street gouges clients but can you imagine the losses if they touched Social Security?The Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed...

Despite receiving as many standing rounds of applause as Tony Blair a few years ago, the Brown message hardly resonated with the US media. To be fair to Brown, he did raise a few good points including the high support for the US in Europe (and the world) and the opportunity to set the world economic...

Rich investors always love the Republicans, right? Hardly. The fact remains that the Bush administration talked about how much they loved Wall Street but the results speak for themselves. It's been severely damaged and only by paying attention and becoming proactive will it improve. Obama was right ...

The British press is worked up about whether he ought to apologize for his own handling of the economy and his role in helping to create the crisis. It's a fair criticism and one that I would surely make as well though the UK press is missing the point. How many people in Congress itself had made su...

Inspiring leadership from the tumbling New Labour leader. The reincarnation of Churchill, really.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is looking for a boost to his political fortunes by meeting President Barack Obama to discuss the global economic crisis. In hard political times at home, Brown scramb...

Gulp. That's quite a loss for anyone. Even billionaire investors.Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported a 96 percent drop in its fourth quarter profit because of largely unrealized losses of $3.25 billion on investments and derivative contracts. The Omaha-based company released its result...

It's hard to imagine that Citi was suing to have the right to receive even more bailout money so they could buy the failing Wachovia only last October. Ahh, those were the days of capitalism, Republican style. When else and where else could a failure have the opportunity to buy another failure on th...

What the hell is the matter with people? These must be the same people who fear the world around them and prefer living life in a cocoon. Oh no, life! CNN:A children's show host who was born with one hand is facing criticism from parents over her disability. BBC spokeswoman Katya Mira said the corpo...