Author Archives: Bok
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.
Trump Triad
The Donald may not know much about the nuclear triad but he’s created his own Trump triad for dealing with ISIS. He wants to ban immigration for Muslims, close the internet for ISIS, and take out terrorist families.
Trump Triad
For his part, fellow Republican front runner Ted Cruz channeled his inner Curtis LeMay and promised to carpet bomb ISIS until the sand glows in the dark.
Cruz has been playing nice to Trump, even after Trump called him a maniac. During the CNN Las Vegas debate Trump rewarded Cruz’s good behavior by saying he has a wonderful temperament.
