Elaine Meinel Supkis emeinel@fairpoint.net I have to rush out of the house today to deal with medical issues within the family. So I am posting, with little commentary, today's news. Will add to this later when I come home. Zero Rate World May Lie Ahead as King, Trichet Cut (Bloomberg) -- The age of...

Dear readers, I finally got around to launching the new web site. I paid over $150 a year for Typepad service. And like typical modern business people, they decided to irritate me to death for this. I had to periodically remind them that I was one of their elite customers who pays, not gets a free r...

A cartoon I drew over two years ago. November 4, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis Since I am 100% against letting the Republicans run things any more, I am happy that Obama is probably going to win this election. It is time the US got beyond our own dark roots which is all about slavery and racism. A harmo...

November 3, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis One of my favorite song birds, Yma Sumac, has flown from this earth and is now gone forever.  Time to memorialize her.  Also, we talk about the Japanese carry trade yet again.  It is being restarted with great effort by the central bankers who want to continu...

Every day is Trick or Treat Day for the gnomes.  This artwork is courtesy of Mr. Taylor.  Elaine Meinel Supkis I hurt my fingers yesterday so I couldn't post anything. Now, with band aids all over the place, I can type again. Typepad continues to annoy me with bugs and a refusal to understand thei...

Halloween Tricks And Treats Elaine Meinel Supkis Halloween is here and the trickery and treatery treachery continues to cause market turmoil. That is, AIG's business with feeding and playing with the Derivatives Beast is now unwinding in the typical way such deals end: the monster eats its maste...

Hell's bells! Is the only way to get attention, walking away totally? I have done this in the past! I carry grudges. When a store irritates me too much, I never, ever come back. So it is here. I have been unable to do cartoons lately because of the difficulties posting here. And my neck hurts. The m...

October 31, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis Here is my last Blogger posting from March 11, 2006:  I am leaving Blogspot. Click here for the new Culture of Life News. Blogger has been limping along for quite a while. They promised us, the last big crash, all was well and they had new systems. Well, these...

Otober 30, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis White House press airhead, Perrino, tells reporters that banks exist ONLY to lend. This sets me off on my usual screaming fits since understanding the history of banking and the true mission of banking is at the very heart of the collapse of nearly all banks on t...

October 29, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis World stock markets are shooting up like a rocket based on the perception that the G7 central bankers and politicians will restart the destructive status quo that involves the US allowing the flood of exports to enter our country and devastate our industrial bas...