Kathleen @ 47

The interview with Bill and Kathleen Christison is not upbeat. Bill thinks that the Bush administration will absolutely attack Iran, and the only way to stop them is to Impeach them. Worth the listen.

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So Kathleen, I have to ask– are you Kathleen Christison? Of course I wouldn’t want you to out yourself– if you are Kathleen Christison but you don’t want to reveal your identity, just say “no comment”.

Have not seen your handle before.

The answer to your guestion is …that is just “Plame” silly.

Show Al the Money!

If you want to do your part to help convince Al Gore to run for President, join our two cents campaign. All you have to do is put two pennies in an envelope, and send them to Office of the Honorable Al Gore, 2100 West End Avenue, Suite 620, Nashville, TN 37203. You can include a note that you’ll send a proper contribution once he announces he’s in the race. We believe that Gore and his advisors will take note of this tangible evidence that America needs him to run for president. It is simple, won’t take long to do and will only cost you half a dollar including stamp and envelope and, of course, the two pennies. So dive into the couch and retrieve the pennies that will represent your opinion, and let’s get Al in the race!

Geez… that must be Jane. :)

Now a dirt cheap dollar should be good for tourism. But DHS has ruled that out.

Folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Papa Bush’s Carlyle Group sold a stake to Dubai today: Private-equity firm the Carlyle Group said Thursday it sold a 7.5 percent stake in its management operations for $1.35 billion to an investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, setting up a potential initial public offering.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap…..P7LF81.htm

Chinese were pissed by their initial $6 billion investment in the Blackstone Group and a $500 million loss in the first six weeks: China faces backlash at home over Blackstone investment
http://www.iht.com/articles/20…..cklash.php
China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales
The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mon…..na107a.xml
And to ’save face’ of China’s loss in Blackstone mortgage backed securities, Blackstone turns around and bought a 20 percent stake in a Chinese chemical company in its first deal in the country since a Chinese government fund bought into the group.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09…..mp;emc=rss

And the Feds have pumped billions of dollars into the stockmarket and cut interest rates to save the investment and commercial banks. We’re in a credit crunch, subprime mortgage disaster with a downward spiraling real estate market. No savings accounts, home equity spent, and everyone has been forced to invest in the stockmarket via 401k’s, IRA’s, and moneymarkets. A bumpy ride?, how about the highway to hell?

ccmask @ 75

I’ll bet that once you sign in you can see the comments. But there’s this:

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I left a comment early this morning, and am interested in seeing other comments. No luck…

You, too? Hmmmmm…

RockPaperScizzors @ 58

Remember when Dubai was forced to relinquish control of US Port Operations? Whew, what a relief, a national security threat thwarted. Well, now they’d done better heh, heh.
“Nasdaq and Borse Dubai struck a complicated deal on Thursday in which Dubai gets Nasdaq’s stake in the London Stock Exchange (LSE.L: Quote, Profile , Research) and buys 20 percent of Nasdaq itself”
http://investing.reuters.co.uk…..-OISBN.XML

The deal gives Borse Dubai 19.99 percent of US-based Nasdaq and 28 percent of the London Stock Exchange…Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd called for a “careful review” of the Dubai/Nasdaq transaction to ensure there are no national security implications.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20…..3ObTsUewgF

But oure fearless leader in Congress Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes everything is hunky dory and a-ok: “I think it is a quite different issue than the ports issue. That was a security issue; this is a marketplace issue,” she said.

Tell me it ain’t so Nancy, that you think National Security is just about borders, ports, and military. And that the “marketplace” has nothing to do with the financial security of the US economy. Tell me it ain’t so.

Probably intimately connected to this. Basically, the Saudi’s have refused to drop their interest rates to match ours (as they always have in the past). Meaning less Saudi money will get invested here – more will stay there. So the whole deal Reagan started – “OK, we pay more for oil, but you invest your profits here” – is ending. So the dollar slides further and further.

Now a dirt cheap dollar should be good for tourism. But DHS has ruled that out.

Folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

At a top-secret meeting of Wall Street financial Mandarins a couple of weeks ago, an alternative banking system was revealed to be waiting the wings, all set to go, in case the Federal Reserve Bank crashed and burned.

It was thought that the U.S. Treasury might serve the banking interests of the American people a bit better than the present, private FED Bank, owned lock, stock, and barrel by a board of international financiers.

I’ll bet that once you sign in you can see the comments.

Nope, I’ve been there twice today, am signed in, in fact, commented on today’s column. Can’t see it, and comments number is still listed as -0-. Something wrong with the software? It’s hard to believe there are 100 or so comments on the first one, and none on the others. Of course, that’s the non-tinfoil-hat theory…

Loo Hoo. @ 68

Wonderful that krugman has a blog. How do you access the comments? I see how to add a comment, just not how to read them…

I don’t know LooHoo. I can’t see them either. But I did notice this:

We have ended TimesSelect. All of our Op-Ed and news columns are now available free of charge. Additionally, The New York Times Archive is available free back to 1987.

There’s a button ‘ADD A COMMENT’.

I’m just guessing you clicky and typey . . .

Interesting article by David Corn at the Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blogs…..pid=234797

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