Samantha Buker was born in Baltimore at the start of the "Reagan Revolution." She thinks Adam Smith is wrong because he believed that the individual man is a moral one. She thinks Karl Marx is wrong because he believed Man as a collective was moral. She's always wanted to write a novel on the Great Depression...and now has the chance to write one about her own time. Miss Buker is associate editor of three Agora Financial publications: Capital & Crisis, Mayer's Special Situations, Strategic Short Report. She's wanted to write for Whiskey readers since she first heard about Agora Financial.
“I’m here today about Adam and Eve.”
— Rep. Alfred Baldasaro, House Judicial Committee Hearing to overturn gay marriage in New Hampshire
Right now, America is enjoying its first case in a federal court to examine if state bans on same-sex marriage illegally discriminate against gay Americans. Before you refuse to read ...read more
Your roving Whiskey reporter just came back from the Big Apple last week after a short afternoon’s jaunt to the Japan Society. Lest you think I’m going to tell you to invest in kimono (like carry trade sweethearts did a few years back), don’t be fooled.
Here’s an exclusive peek at ...read more
So Shooters, today’s big news: Citigroup to pay back $20 billion in TARP to government. Why stop so soon the magic IV drip known as TARP funding (which had just been so graciously extended by Treasury)? Well, it’s not because the company is back in good health. They just want ...read more
Hope you bought your last pack of flavored cigarettes by midnight on Sept. 21…or else you’re out of luck. Thank the newly enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
I’m OK with state-by-state action. In fact, I couldn’t have bought the last pack of cloves in Maryland at 11:55 p.m. ...read more
When the terror alert system changes from yellow to orange, what do you do differently?
If you’re the average citizen, absolutely nothing changes… except maybe how you vote.
Prior to 2004 election, the terror alert code did just that. Yellow, or “Elevated” for “significant risk of terrorist attack” was upped to Orange ...read more
“It does gall you. Just because we're a little bitty county doesn't mean we don't need a bank. It wasn't our fault."
-- Hazel Bedingfield, 79, who now travels 24 miles for her Social Security payment at her new bank
You deposit your paycheck on Friday and can’t get money out on ...read more
To put an end to this cap-and-trade fiasco, the only option is probably to cap all the “revolving door” stooges and trade them out for oil and coal execs. But unfortunately, Shooters, that won’t be the fate of cap and trade. Not if the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) can ...read more
Welcome to Maiden Lane, where the tripe vendors of Wall Street hawk their wares.
Maiden Lane runs right past the foot of the N.Y. Fed, and this address hosts the most poisonous assets on its balance sheet.
As any anti-Fed Reservist among you will agree, the Reserve’s balance sheet is nothing but ...read more
Not only was this populist tea fest diffuse, it was also as much a same-old “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” game. Everyone was attacking Obama either explicitly or implicitly, when the whole boondoggle -- and the thing you’re paying $42k for -- and seeing 25 cent ...read more
“We were merry, in an undertone, at the idea of making so large a cup of tea for the fishes but we used not more words than absolutely necessary. I never worked harder in my life. While we were unloading, the people collected in great numbers about the wharf to ...read more
