“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
August 2016 archive
Aug 03 2016
The Breakfast Club (Anything Goes)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Aug 02 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Post Convention Repeats)
Trevor and Larry are in repeats. Sam Bee had new last night, but I was traveling. Stephen is turning in another normal week, alas I have morning activities and can’t hang. So not much activity on this front. We’ll see what happens next week though we do have the Junkyard Cesspool Games to contend with.
Aug 02 2016
Mr Market Won’t Buy
Or, as lambert frequently puts it, the dog won’t eat the dog food. European Bank Shares Fall Out of Bed as Monte dei Paschi Rescue Fails to Reassure by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism August 2, 2016 Last Friday, after EU banking authorities revealed the expected, that Italy’s number three bank, Monte dei Paschi, needed yet …
Aug 02 2016
The New New Normal
The Real Reckoning Robert Reich Monday, August 1, 2016 Washington insiders expect a return to politics as usual. I’m already hearing Republicans dismiss Donald Trump as a weird aberration. “Ordinarily, Trump wouldn’t have stood a chance,” a Republican operative told me. “He won because he didn’t have a clear opponent until the very end. And …
Aug 02 2016
Pondering the Pundits
“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Aug 02 2016
The Breakfast Club (Sweet Freedom)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Aug 01 2016
The Big TPP Push
I certainly hope I don’t have to recapitulate right now exactly why the Trans Pacific Partnership is the worst so-called “trade” deal ever including, but not limited to, the fact that the largest beneficiary is Malaysia, an economy based on slavery (yup, actual factual Gone With The Wind cottonpicking sale of human beings as a …
Aug 01 2016
Europe on the Brink
While it may appear that Quitaly has been avoided with the the Bail In “rescue” of Monte dei Paschi, its third largest bank, all they have really accomplished is to spread the weakness among other fictionally solvent banks and saddle depositors with paper of questionable redeemability. Another “victory” like this and we are undone. Italian …
Aug 01 2016
Pondering the Pundits
“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
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