Personally, I blame former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan for much of our current economic stress. His decision to keep interest rates ridiculously low all those years ticked me off then and now. With all that cheap credit, it's no wonder Wall Street worshiped him. Maybe you're ticked too. Maybe you fantasize about grabbing Greenspan's bald little head and giving it a good squeeze. Or, perhaps you find Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson more irksome. You think, how c
The Marlins crowd is not too big to fail.
Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria told the media yesterday that he's optimistic that Miami will pass a plan this week to move the team into a proposed stadium in Little Havana. Leaving Dolphins Stadium, which is on the Broward County line, will assure that baseball fans in Broward and Palm Beach counties will forever forget that South Florida has a baseball team. Loria said:''The timing for the stadium could not be better, and to get this stadium buil
If you're dreading this week to come, you need to begin by watching this hypnotically relaxing 2-minute video from this past weekend of the sun rising over Fort Lauderdale Beach. Jack up the volume and bask in the soothing crash of the surf. Aaaaah! Feel better? Good. Because tomorrow Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is going to tell the House Financial Services Committee whether your nation's economy will take a death plunge.
