I hear some folks (seems like people who sympathize with the tea partiers) say we need to run the economy like a business.

Goldman, corruption, and why they won’t respect us in the morning

Guest: Stephan G Richter, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Globalist, the daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture, which he founded and launched in January 2000. In addition, he provides editorial direction for The Globalist’s innovative content services on global issues, which are licensed to newspapers, corporations, institutions, universities and high schools around the world.

• Goldman Sachs and America’s Regulation/Supervision Paradox
  • the vilification of government and civil servants in America (in some quarters) and the impact this had had on our ability to protect ourselves from the financial crisis;
  • the status America’s civil servants have vs those other countries;
  • the importance of a vibrant private sector to assure that elected leaders actually leave their offices (and not change their constitutions to remain in power)

• The West as a Role Model
  • How the financial crisis has affected America’s standing in the world and what impact it has had on “American” companies doing business elsewhere, i.e. successful countries/economies have certain characteristics in common, but the ‘rule of law’ seems to be an important, if not the important, one;
  • if the reputation of US companies is that they are corrupt, does this make it more difficult for US companies to make and enforce contracts in other countries, refuse to pay/accept bribes, etc

John Loretz: Nukes

Russia and nukes – is the new policy a security threat or do you feel safer than we’re talking with our former enemies?

It’s tax time, and the procrastinators are counting down the hours.

The Queen Bees of South Hadley – do you BELIEVE THIS???

In the traumatic days that followed, Rebecca Brouillard, a student who spoken on a television interview about the hazing, was slammed against a wall and hit by one of the accused girls, said her father, Mitch Brouillard. He said that they were angry she had publicly discussed the bullying, and that some of the students who were accused had bullied his own daughter for years.

What on earth is up with the parents? How do girls become a Queen Bee? And what can be done to stop them?