Think of this as Volume 12, Number 10 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. A quiet economic war is now being fought and the future of Europe hangs in the balance. As with much of the Cold War this struggle is mostly happening in secret. Unlike the Cold War (until, as ...

AIG may be the most unpopular bailout ever. With Wall Street. With Main Street. With the people. Probably even with the President. Yet it is absolutely essential. Here is why. AIG created a ton of what I call Confederate Money. They insured crap that was then called gold. When the gold turned back i...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 9 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. At ZDNet Healthcare I get this kind of crap all the time: obama is a liar and traitor to his oath of office. dems are traitors to the US Constitution, helped by RINOs. the world will pay the pri...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 8 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. As bad as financial reporters, analysts and experts were when the market was going up they are worse when it's going down. Let's start with what we know. Money is a store of value but trillions ...

I called it the Nixon Thesis of Conflict for a reason. The Republican governing assumptions of the last 40 years, which dominated Americans' thoughts throughout that time,  held that Democrats were illegitimate. They were "soft on communism, or "soft on hippies," they were "tax and spend" or they w...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 7 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. Every crisis President adopts Abraham Lincoln as their personal political savior. The first Roosevelt wore a ring with a lock his his hair, the second hired a Lincoln biographer to write his spe...

There is a fascinating bidding war going on right now in American politics. Populism is rising in both political parties, and should the populists gain control of one, business will abandon it. Or, as I said here last year, Populism is for Losers. What has happened in the Stimulus Bill debate is tha...

I had not thought before how the current era is a reversal of the FDR era. We've had the war. Now are we going to fight the peace? It may well be true, as Joseph Stiglitz believes, that the Iraq War cost us $3 trillion. We know we put $1 trillion into the actual fight. Figure another $1 trillion in ...

The Obama Administration is supposed to be all about team. It's supposed to be about broadening the coalition, delivering a consensus, and moving forward with honesty and transparency. So why is it being run by a hack out of the Red-Blue Bush-Clinton wars? Rahm Emanuel has already proven his incompe...

"That speech won't scour." Perhaps the dumbest thing Abraham Lincoln ever said. He was referring to his own Gettysburg Address, a 3-minute letter following three hours of Edward Everett's best. What Lincoln didn't realize, what history teaches, is that the importance of a great speech may not be see...