The Poor Are Not Poor
I admit that I am tired of poverty stories. I am also tired of obesity stories – especially the absurd notion that obesity is a symptom of poverty. I’ve been to the poorest country on earth (Niger), and I can tell you there is no obesity. So when a listener forwarded me this Heritage Foundation […]15 years ago
Are Michelle Bachmann’s headaches news?
Listen to Are Michelle Bachmann’s headaches news? The story that erupted on a website called “the Daily Caller” was headlined “Stress-related condition incapacitates Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged.” It begins with an anecdote about the day (one year ago) when Bachmann’s former communications director told her that he was leaving to take another job. According […]15 years ago
What should a CEO know?
Listen to What should a CEO know? Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp, has run full page apologies for the voice mail hacking incidents that prompted him to shut down his News of the World. But today Murdoch explained to a committee of the British Parliament that the paper was less than 1 percent of […]15 years ago
Maybe the world should end more often!
Listen to Maybe the world should end more often! We are all brought up to dread the end of the world. In Biblical times, that meant monsters lunging at us from the sky; in 2011, it means closing a freeway. Avoid the area! Ten miles of I-405 closed in LA. And what happened? Nothing. “It’s […]15 years ago
Seattle’s Pop Cap games living the dream
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Seattle Pop Cap games living the dream Yes there is some good economic news. And it’s in the video game industry. Those little laptop and iPhone games are making money and creating jobs, and no one knows that better than the co-creator of a little game called Bejeweled: “Bejeweled our […]15 years ago
The question the debt hawks won’t answer
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: The question the debt hawks won’t answer The President says without a debt increase, he can’t guarantee social security checks after August 2. Three members of Congress, including Presidential Candidate Michelle Bachmann, called reporters in to say that’s a lie: “There are sufficient funds in the social security trust fund […]15 years ago
Now it’s getting serious.
Listen to Dave Ross commentary: Now it’s getting serious. Most of just probably just blow off the warnings about a government shutdown… but in Minnesota, where the state government has actually BEEN shutdown for going on two weeks, we may be seeing a glimpse of a disturbing future: “The reality of the state shut down […]15 years ago
Are the debt hawks about to blink?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Are the debt hawks about to blink? So many brave sound bites: Government should spend only what it takes in. We’ll never vote to increase the debt — so many bold statements, and I was looking forward to August 2nd when we would hit the debt limit and find out […]15 years ago
The light bulb debate isn’t about light bulbs
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: The light bulb debate isn’t about light bulbs Back in 2007, Congress approved phasing out inefficient incandescent light bulbs. The hundred watters would be the first to go, starting next year, and that bugs Republicans like Mike Burgess of Texas who knows what this would mean: “Those of us over […]15 years ago
Are the jobs back yet?
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: Are the jobs back yet?
It's Monday -- are the jobs back yet?
No, apparently not . And it all seems to be coming to a head -- we're now three weeks from default, and what's just as scary, unemployment benefits finally run out in December.
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Economic Orgasm At Last?
The collapse of the “Big Bang” debt negotiation means the fate of the unemployed is now in the hands of the free market: those mysterious entrepreneurial job-creators who’ve been waiting for that golden moment… Well here it is! Government continues to shrink (another 36,000 government jobs disappeared last month), taxes will not be raised, the […]15 years ago
Goodbye to a dated dream
Atlantis takes off on Friday (AP Photo/John Raoux) Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Goodbye to a dated dream The space shuttle program is almost done. Which is sad for someone like me — as a kid I was captivated by that first space flight; I wanted to be a scientist, I wanted to manipulate physics […]15 years ago
Default countdown T-minus 25 days
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Default countdown T-minus 25 days Unemployment is now up to 9.2 percent. At the same time: still no debt deal. Someone please remind us what default would mean: “The president said if they don’t get a deal in the next couple of weeks, interest rates could soar, the nation’s credit […]15 years ago
The power of the Casey Anthony story
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: The power of the Casey Anthony story HLN formerly headline News, which once broadcast as many headlines as possible, made the decision to become all about one headline — Casey Anthony — and ratings soared! HLN’s star host Nancy Grace called Casey Tot Mom, and made the story so compelling […]15 years ago
Are the Casey Anthony jurors idiots?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Are the Casey Anthony jurors idiots? I get the feeling that a lot of people see the Casey Anthony jurors as a bunch of idiots. Here’s a sound byte from a bar as the verdicts were broadcast: Listen to verdict reading Not right — because she obviously killed her two […]15 years ago
The tax cut machine!
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: The tax cut machine!
Today we celebrate the second birthday of the Great Recovery . OK, the not-so-great recovery . Today it's officially two years since the Great Recession of 2009 ended.
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What makes a patriot?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: What makes a patriot? Here it is July 4th, our great patriotic holiday. So how does a patriot behave. If patriotism is about love of country, it would have to mean — showing that love in concrete ways. Otherwise, it’s just talk. It would be the investor who invests his […]15 years ago
How do you get on a plane with someone else’s ticket?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: How do you get on a plane with someone else’s ticket? It is strange that, in a world where the TSA will force a 95 year old woman to take off her diaper to make sure it can’t explode, that a man named Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi could get on an […]15 years ago
When stories fall apart – Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: When stories fall apart – Dominique Strauss-Kahn The case made him the first head of the IMF whose name everybody knew. The reports we got about Dominique Strauss-Kahn — and what he did to that hotel maid — left no room for doubt. Remember? “She entered to clean Strauss-Kahn’s room […]15 years ago
It’s all out war!
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: It’s all out war! The battle over America’s impending default is on. The trenches are dug, the President fired off three rounds against the Republicans: “Tax breaks for oil companies, and hedge fund managers, and corporate jet owners,” said Obama. …Revealing that oil companies, hedge fund managers and corporate jet […]15 years ago
John Quincy Adams, Founding Father
I guess John Quincy Adams was a founding father after all, even though he was about 8 years old at the time of the revolution. After candidate Michelle Bachmann promoted him on Good Morning America, his Wikipedia entry magically changed to match! And while we’re at it — didn’t the South win the War of […]15 years ago
Remember Judgment Day, it’s back!
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: Remember Judgment Day, it's back! "It's going to be a horror story," said Harold Camping . Well it's back! America is 34 days from defaulting on its debt for the first time in US history.
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Rod Blagojevich was stunned at conviction?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Rod Blagojevich was stunned at conviction? Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich couldn’t believe it: “I frankly am stunned,” said Blagojevich after his conviction. Stunned that a jury would convict him of trying to sell Barack Obama’s old senate seat. Really? Stunned? After the FBI taped you saying stuff like this? […]15 years ago
Why DO people get married?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Why DO people get married? Couples can live together, have sex together, have children together without going to the trouble of getting married. You don’t even get much of a tax break anymore. So why do people get married? Come on we all know this — To discourage sleeping around, […]15 years ago
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