Will Wall Street save public sector unions?  The U.S. Post Office certainly hopes so. While union representatives were standing at the front door of America’s major banks, shouting about corporate greed and holding signs and blowing horns, the National Association of Letter Carriers chiefs were slipping through the back entrance for advice on restructuring their […]

At last, Hugo Chavez has made something grow: the number of his countrymen leaving Venezuela. From the Wall Street Journal: Waves of white-collar Venezuelans have fled the country’s high crime rates, soaring inflation and expanding statist controls, for destinations ranging from Canada to Qatar. The top U.S. destinations are Miami, a traditional shopping mecca for […]

More evidence of the Obama’s green failures.Are the OWS protestors announcing “We Are The 99 Percent” really representing the 99 percent? Does that make these demonstrations part of a class war?Let investment in the disintegrating blue social model begin: Matthew Yglesias explains the lunacy of city-owned parking garages. “Don’t contract out management of garages to […]

Indian call centers have long been the most visible symbols of the outsourcing of American jobs — even inspiring the premise of a primetime NBC comedy. Now many of these call centers are being confronted with a familiar problem: outsourcing. The Washington Post reports that Indian call-center companies are increasingly moving their business abroad: But […]

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline continues to be a headache for Obama: On the one side are his environmental supporters, who are committed to killing what they understand will be a dirty, environmentally-disastrous project. On the other hand is the opportunity to create as many as 20,000 jobs for Americans. The Washington Post […]

Flannery O’Connor was once approached by someone who complained about the way academic writing programs discouraged so many promising young writers from launching careers.  “Not enough,” was O’Connor’s reply. She was on the wrong side of history; America is a land of enablers, and technology is about to enable a huge wave of new authors […]

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a chart showing that in the last five months President Obama was hammered by the mainstream press harder than any of his GOP rivals; there was a 25 point gap between the percentage of his coverage that was positive and the negative stories.These charts and other methods to referee […]

World markets, so depressed and beaten down last week that any news not catastrophic perked them up, rallied for a few days on more European promises to come up with a grand solution to the euro-mess by the end of this month.Those promises were, of course, well meaning lies.  Germany and France are so far […]

Via Meadia staff will be posting a morning news roundup of stories we’re reading each morning while Walter is in China. We’ll stick to themes and topics usually found here on the blog, offering readers a short post of news we think is important, interesting and intelligent. Some of the stories found in the news […]

That pay raise might have to wait until 2021.  At least that is the word of economists in the latest WSJ forecasting survey: From 2000 to 2010, median income in the U.S. declined 7% after adjusting for inflation, according to Census data. That marks the worst 10-year performance in records going back to 1967. On […]