Category Archives: Texas

The dumbest thing you’ll read today

Posted on December 18, 2018 by mcblogger

Here. This from the guy who couldn’t predict a bubble in the housing market despite some very easy to see warning signs (like the extension of credit by instrument). Penny Marshall dies and this motherfucker just goes on living. Tell … Continue reading →

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OMG! WTF!?!?? or, Pardon me, but could you tell my why my 401(k) is in the toilet?

Posted on December 18, 2018 by mcblogger

The market has whipsawed back and forth like Florida Man on a meth bender. There are ton of answers as to why, but the simplest one that underlies everything is ‘instability’. Markets like to look 6 months into the future. … Continue reading →

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Andrew White : Fuck you, Ted Cruz was right (and Beto SUCKS)!

Posted on November 21, 2018 by mcblogger

In today’s episode of OMG,THIS IS WHY I DIDN’T VOTE FOR YOU, Andrew White shares his feelings on how things went for Democrats this year… I hate to admit it, but Ted Cruz was right. Beto O’Rourke was too liberal … Continue reading →

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What New Normal?

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Captain Kroc

Folks still waiting on the religious right to see the light? Mobile, Alabama Ashland Place United Methodist Church member Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III quoting biblical verse to justify inhumanity is the continuation of this country’s long history of toxic Christianity, … Continue reading →

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Flowers, Rainbows and Pretty Things…

Posted on January 21, 2016 by mcblogger

In 2004 I could not have been more derisive toward the campaign of Rep. Kucinich who, while being a nice guy, wasn’t ever going to win and whose supporters were really annoying. I viewed the whole thing as a colossal … Continue reading →

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WTF Hillz?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by mcblogger

While Bernie vols in Texas are making hundreds of thousands of calls (and this is confirmed from multiple sources) to voters in Texas, Hillary vols are making calls… to Maine and Delaware. I don’t know what kind of delegate math … Continue reading →

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I give you The Dumbest Thing You’ll Read In January On Wages

Posted on January 9, 2016 by mcblogger

Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, wrote what has to be one of the worst counterarguments to increasing the minimum wage in the history of ever. Honestly CKE’s board should be looking to fire him with cause for A) Being … Continue reading →

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Macro view on oil… it’s still the demand

Posted on January 3, 2016 by mcblogger

Yardeni’s year end report on the oil macro picture is out, and on it’s face it should be encouraging for bulls short term. Long term, it’s clear that absent extraordinarily low prices, demand growth would have fallen in 2015. Producers … Continue reading →

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Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro – The New York Times

Posted on November 11, 2015 by mcblogger

So, Ted Cruz​ learned how to lie from this ‘revolutionary/not so much a revolutionary’ father. Apparently, old Rafael is about as mendacious as you would expect someone running a scam church to be. Source: Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s … Continue reading →

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The Financial Crisis: Lessons for the Next One | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Posted on November 2, 2015 by mcblogger

The massive and multifaceted policy responses to the financial crisis and Great Recession — ranging from traditional fiscal stimulus to tools that policymakers invented on the fly — dramatically reduced the severity and length of the meltdown that began in … Continue reading →

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