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BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Daily Archive - 1/16/2012

Schork, Keene, and Prewitt: Bloomberg Surveillance - Topic Warm Winter's Impact upon Fuel...

Klaus Regling, chief executive of the E.F.S.F., said the downgrade of the fund by a single agency would “not reduce E.F.S.F.’s lending capacity of €440 billion,” or $556 billion.

Oil GLUT... So why are prices still so high at the pump?

“London is perfectly placed to act as a gateway for Asian banking and investment in Europe, and a bridge to the United States.”- George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer

“The goal is to let the sun shine in and make information available to foster accountability,” Mr. Grassley said.

If the perceived front-runner can be slowed down, that probably extends Mr. Paul’s time in the national spotlight.

In the final weeks of the military withdrawal, the son of Iraq’s prime minister began evicting Western companies and contractors from the heavily fortified Green Zone

"Goodbye Jim Crow, hello class system."

But, amid a stream of gloomy news from Europe, including the downgrade of the debt of France and eight other countries, the sense that default is inevitable is growing.

Barely two months after Mrs. Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France welcomed him to Europe’s bargaining table, he recently told Mrs. Merkel that austerity alone would not work.

What is needed is leadership by President Obama on this issue. He should form an interagency task force to investigate and pursue potential civil and criminal wrongdoing by institutions and people...

A more immediate threat may come from Greece, where investors have warned of a collapse of the financial system.

"It was a moment too much like other Microsoft moments—capturing the future only to downplay it—and it was baffling."

Few people in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

“The problem is it looks like it is pay-to-play. It looks like: ‘You want to get an earmark? You make a contribution.’ ”

“If you want peaceful, pleasant managing the decay, I’m the wrong person. What I stand for is such a disruption in the Washington establishment.” - Mr. Gingrich

Mr. Romney’s status as someone who “never smoked, never drank, never did drugs, stayed married to one woman,” he added, short-circuited some of that scrutiny.

“People don’t want to become teachers when you are absolutely treated as the leeches on the system,” she said.

PACK Gets Crushed by GIANTS!

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. Says He Is Quitting G.O.P. Race

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