Category Archives: Politics

Warning Signs of a Financial Vesuvius

Posted on November 4, 2011 by MN Gordon

The Day Mount Vesuvius Blew “Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin’d, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind” – Homer, The Iliad Everything was just the way it was supposed to be in Pompeii on August 24, 79 A.D.  The … Continue reading →

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Let Them Fail

Posted on October 14, 2011 by MN Gordon

Good jobs are in high demand these days.  Yet, unfortunately, they’re in limited supply.  Gone are the days when any old hack could show up with a tie and a smile, shuffle papers around a cubicle, surf the internet all … Continue reading →

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A Telling Sign of Things to Come

Posted on October 11, 2011 by MN Gordon

The Labor Department reported last Friday that 103,000 jobs were added in September.  Considering the lethargic state of the economy, this number could have been much worse.  Nonetheless, a quick scratch below the surface reveals the headline jobs number wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich

Posted on September 27, 2011 by MN Gordon

Sometime in early 1848 French poet Alphonse de Lamartine had a change of appetite.  For whatever reason, he no longer took to gobbling up frog legs but to gobbling up the new, forward thinking, ideas of the day. It all … Continue reading →

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