Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.