Author Archives: Bok
We’re All Getting Schlonged
Last week Hillary accused The Donald of inspiring recruiting videos for terrorists. Strange she would go the video sponsored terrorism route again. Anyway, no such evidence was produced.
Schlonged
Later in the week Trump said Hillary was schlonged by Obama in the 2008 election.
Hillary was outraged.
Trump insisted schlonged is not a sexual insult. It merely means defeated. And Trump, being Trump, demanded an apology.
The BBC clears things up in this piece titled The Schlong and Short of it.
Not Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
We’re in for a record warm Christmas in the East. If you want to ski, go west.
The Real Winner
Host Steve Harvey misread his cue card and named Miss Columbia Miss Universe but the real winner was Miss Philippines.
Real Winner
President Obama thinks he was the real winner of Paris Climate Accord. But only the United States is on the hook for real carbon cuts in the deal.
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum calls Obama the unilateral Climate Warrior. He says, in the WSJ, that Obama made “an unconditional pledge to cut carbon emissions 26-28% by 2025 no matter what China, India, and the rest of the world do.”.
Yellen Takes Off Training Wheels
Janet Yellen took the training wheels off the economy on Wednesday. After seven years of near zero percent interest rates, the Fed hiked rates a quarter percent.
Meanwhile, Congress passed a 2,000 page, 1.2 trillion dollar budget. That tacked another 157 billion onto the 18.5 trillion dollar national debt.
Yellen
On Friday the Dow dropped 370 points.
David Stockman says, “sell the bonds, sell the stocks, sell the house”. IBD wonders if the markets know something the Fed doesn’t.
