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For Bill and Hillary Clinton, the ultimate American dream is eight more years. Yet how do you think they would react to having dozens of partisans at their rallies sporting large signs calling for EIGHT MORE YEARS, EIGHT MORE YEARS?Don’t you have the feeling that they would cringe at such public displays of their fervent…

It was at a large wedding reception in New York City that I saw Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, sitting down to dinner one spring evening in 2000. Having heard on the grapevine that the Federal Reserve was finally going to do something about predatory lending—an area of enforcement under their jurisdiction—I went…

Here is a short list of what you won’t hear much of from the front-runners in this presidential primary season. Call them the candidate taboos. You won’t hear a call for a national crackdown on the corporate crime, fraud, and abuse that have robbed trillions of dollars from workers, investors, pension holders, taxpayers and consumers.…

The Obamarama Campaign Express was roaring down a New Hampshire highway near Nashua when an aide spotted the sprawling No Holds Barred Sports Bar. “Let’s stop the bus,” she urged, “and do some random schmoozing.” Obama and his entourage poured out of the bus and headed for the front door, over which hung a large…

The conscientious quest for turning around our fragile democracy can usefully turn its attention to a widespread but sub-visible phenomenon that can be called “The Next Step Not Taken.” Let’s look at three areas needing fundamental reforms where the people who can get them in place are not taking the next step. 1. Call them…

While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes his defeat of the Congressional attempt to get rid of $15 billion in unconscionable tax…

‘Tis the Holiday Season and a time congenial for reading books. Here are my recommendations of recent books that relate to the quest for understanding today’s events: 1. Jeno: The Power of the Peddler, (Paulucci International) is the biography of89 year old multiple entrepreneur, Jeno Paulucci, of Duluth, Minnesota and Sanford, Florida. One of a…

Gail Collins, the columnist for the New York Times, has a problem. While regularly writing in a satirical or sometimes trivial way about the foibles of the two major Parties’ front-running presidential candidates, she can scarcely hide her disdain for the small starters, the underdogs. In a recent column about what she saw as the…

Rome, Italy Rumors that Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, would again reduce interest rates by at least 25 basis points elevated Asian and European stock markets and rattled the New York Mercantile Exchange oil speculators. Normally, such an action by the Fed— the all purpose government guarantor of “Wall Street’s” reckless risk taking — would…