Tuesday, July 31, 2012            Now I think I'l take a whack
at that bubble quiz.  Monday, July 30, 2012  Obama and Business:
What He Doesn't Get  Boy,  that Obama fella just can't catch a
break, can he?  The wingers think he is a Muslim socialist.  His
ex-friends on the left think he has gone whoring after the false
god of Eisenhower Republican.  Meanwhile the zillionaire bankers
are outraged--outraged--that he won't  kiss their shiny pink
backsides show them the respect they believe deserve.  This
can't all be true, can it? Specifically, he can't be both a
friend and an enemy of "the business community," yes? Rhetorical
question, of course. My answer is yes, it can indeed be true.
But we do need some clarification on just what his attitude
entails.  Start with the easy part: Wall Street. Of all the
formidable skills in Larry Summers' portfolio, I'm beginning to
think that one of the least understood is his power of hypnosis.
If not Summers, then somebody* must have cornered Obama in the
elevator on the wa