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What Chimpanzees Can Teach Us about Convertible Bonds
By Dennis Miller In a renewed commitment to finally learn Spanish, one of my colleagues spent quite a bit of time this week awkwardly saying, “Qué es eso?” into the headset Rosetta Stone provides with its language learning programs. Translation: “What’s that?” Here in the US, the 10,000 or so…
Americans Are Hoarding Money, But Why?
Gary D. Halbert Between the Lines In the wake of the Great Recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, worried Americans are hoarding more cash than at any time in the last 25 years. According to the Fed, US households are sitting on $2.15 trillion in checking…
I Didn’t Believe the IRS Anyway
By Dennis Miller Lois Lerner’s emails are back from the dead—sort of. The former IRS official’s BlackBerry, however, is still long gone. The IRS intentionally destroyed it in June 2012 (after congressional staffers interviewed Lerner about the IRS targeting conservative groups) as the Deputy Assistant Chief Counsel acknowledged in a…
Obama to Circumvent Congress on New Climate Deal
Gary D. Halbert Between the Lines President Obama is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their fossil fuel emissions – but without ratification from Congress. Under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved…
65,000 Marines Hold up a Mirror to the Economy
By Dennis Miller I was 18 years old when I left boot camp for Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where the Marine Corps stationed 65,000 troops. When my unit got our first weekend pass and could actually leave the base in civilian clothes, something I hadn’t worn in several months, I…
ISIS Training Western Terrorists To Attack Europe & US
Between the Lines Gary D. Halbert On Tuesday, I received the latest briefing from one of my best geopolitical/intelligence sources, LIGNET (Langley Intelligence Network, subscription-only), regarding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – the ruthless band of terrorists that has seized control of large parts of northern Iraq…