Posts Tagged ‘the dollar’

Nidal Hasan’s Colleagues Were Cool With His Islam, Which, By The Transitive Property, Is Very Significant

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Obama is just pretending to have any sway within the Obama/Hamid Karzai powercouple. [New York Times]
A bunch of people in the Army were very encouraging of Nidal Hasan’s religious phase, and some even suggested he take college courses about Islam. Should we purge the Army of anyone who self-identifies as a “supportive friend” too?? [Washington Post]
The Malevolent Balloon People of Colorado will plead guilty when they are charged with being the worst parents ever not even in the usual hyperbolic sense. [CNN]
Americans might not buy as much useless garbage for their loved ones this holiday season. [AP]
Obama may dip into TARP funds to help out with the huge deficit. [WSJ]
The weak dollar has consequences other than all the rich Europeans coming to New York to shop “because it is so cheap here”: oil prices could go up, like way up. [Reuters]

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Tonight is Big Health Care Speech Night. History’s least cohesive gang, the Gang of Six, has until 10 am this morning to come up with ways to improve the bill and then it will be SET IN STONE until it is killed completely. [Washington Post]
Yesterday the value of America’s currency, the dollar, hit a yearly low. There are many complicated numerical and Chinese reasons for this. [HuffPost]
The UN will be investigating allegations of fraud in Afghanistan’s recent fraudulent presidential election. [Guardian]
China will soon be home to the world’s largest solar power plant. It will be able to power 3 million Chinese households, roughly the equivalent one high-rise apartment building in Beijing. [Reuters]
Chris Dodd will not be America’s newest Kennedy, as he has chosen to keep doing the Banking Committee thing and not fill-in for Ted Kennedy full-time on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions panel. [Politico]