Conservative Refocus Notes: The sky is falling, the sky is falling! This guy probably believes in global warming too and even that the stock market caused it! Look, I know many people live and breath on the what these pinheaded investors say, much of… more »

Chart I. Adjusted Monetary Base, 1984-Present (Log Scale) Bloomberg By Alex Kowalski The cost of living in the U.S. rose in February by the most in 10 months, reflecting a jump in gasoline that failed to spread to other goods a… more »

msnbc.com news services DAVOS, Switzerland — Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed "Dr. Doom" for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade. Ro… more »

NY Times By Erik Eckholm The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce. A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country’s largest retailers, including Apple, Micr… more »

Green Mountain Scribes / By Audrey Pietrucha   If economic and political liberties are necessarily linked, as many believe, then the United States’ reputation as the land of the free slipped a little further this week as documented in Economic Freedo… more »