The current annoyance among the base (read: liberal wing) of the incumbent party (read: Democrats) is that Obama is not the revolutionary his adversaries have made him out to be. At every point in the Democratic primary, it was clear that Barack Obama was to the right of both Hilary Clinton a ... Read more

The appointment of New York Fed President Timothy Geithner - "not Wall Street guy" - as Treasury secretary in the incoming Obama administration is this week's most compelling market mood match.  The announcement, by many accounts, helped send the stock market soaring late in trading ... Read more

It wasn't Joe the Plumber that McCain should have been talking about in the debate, it was Millvina Dean! Come on guys, get with the program! She lived through the Great Depression, survived the sinking of the TItanic, and the crappy movie that was made about it , only to fall victim to the glob ... Read more

Rick Newman of the U.S. News and World report wrote a fantastic blog about the relativity of being rich . Not all rich are created equally, there are several factors that contribute to the label. Describing the different conditions that determine one's status of wealthy, Newman writes " ... Read more