Friday

Asking The Right Question About Mitt Romney, Bain And Capitalism

Thinking about collapse: Big pieces of the current system (finance, insurance, real estate, consumer spending, new business development, farming), where access to easy credit underpins nearly every single financial transaction or decision that occurs in the U.S., is “brittle.” By “brittle” I mean that things work very well and very efficiently as long as individuals and firms have access to easy credit to finance operations.

The SOPA protest: "Wikipedia has now revealed that an astounding eight million people used its tool to look up their elected officials' contact info. ...] We heard from multiple Senate staffers that the phones – both in DC and back home in the district offices – were ringing non-stop with complaints about the bill."

Gary North on the lessons learned from the SOPA protest.

Natural gas and unseasonably warm weather.

Read Tim Knight's "Who Do I Think I Am?" post.