It's unfortunate that the GOP has enough power that they've neutered most consumer protection agencies in their attempts to allow ri...

Face it, it's become traditional for Republicans to declare that a Democratic election winner is a failure before he takes office, and ...

As our mainstream media continues to abuse us with nonsensical blow-by-blow accounts by blowhard headline-grabbing louts, this story recei...

No pictures today. No jokes. There'll be plenty more to come, I imagine. Today, I want to spell out what I think is happening in our cou...

No, I am not selling ice cream with sprinkles. The term, double dip, refers to a second recession that may collapse an already fragile econ...

M y hypocrisy detector burned out on overload ages ago, so I can't really tell whether the idea that preserving jobs at GM and Chrysler ...

(Double click on the image for a larger view) Fellow creatures above and below the waves: We have managed to retrace the route of the Grea...

My mind has been unfortunately consumed with thoughts of the economic stimulus for what feels like at least a decade. I don’t even really k...

Happy New Year, everyone! Americans are famous for customary greetings that bear little relevance to events or context.  By all accounts, t...

What were the " dumbest moments in business " during the newly departed annus horribilis , asks Fortune Magazine, which lists the...

Ever since Fogg’s recent passionate & compassionate, sensitive post I’ve been thinking about the effect of our unstable economy on the p...

I have been a remiss member of the SwashZone community of late. Many excuses of course – too busy, blah, blah – the ready excuse of our mo...

T hat giant oinking sound you hear is all the pork being herded into the Bailout Corral. Even though the plan passed last week has been so b...

I ndications are that a majority of Americans still oppose anything like a bailout for financial institutions. An unscientific CNN poll toda...

When it looked like the bailout bill was going to get the votes, who was all too happy to claim the credit? John McCain. When the bill didn&...

N obody knows anything. I've heard the quote attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, but I don't know. I don't know anything. I don'...

Election dialog is of most value when we are spreading the word as opposed to preaching to the choir. There are web sites that the average p...