More on that washed-up David Beckham

From Mike Adams’ minute-by-minute coverage of today’s Estonia-England European Championship qualifier at guardian.co.uk (the game’s not over yet; England’s ahead 3-0 with about 10 minutes left); GOAL! Estonia 0 – 2 England (Crouch 54) Beckham, in plenty of space, sends over a dipping cross that Crouch allows to bounce in front of him before looping [...]

No, Mr. Armey, you’re not the only one worried about Social Security

It’s just that most of us don’t express our concerns quite like this: The impending collapse of Social Security and Medicare will be the largest bankruptcy in human history. It is an avalanche aimed squarely at the American economy. Now, I’ve been guilty of some Social Security and Medicare alarmism of my own in the [...]

My televised defense of Chinese currency manipulators

At the request of Chunglee Wang, here’s the text of my commentary (they ran the long version) on PBS’s Nightly Business Report Monday night: You hear a lot of complaints these days from Capitol Hill and parts of corporate America that China is manipulating its currency to keep it from rising against the dollar. As [...]

Incredibly exclusive camera-phone coverage of the Webby Awards

That’s eBay powerseller Brandi Ramos (purveyor of big and tall clothing to men of 52 nations) on the left, and eBay CEO Meg Whitman on the right. I sat with them at the Webby Awards last night, where Meg, Brandi, and a couple of other successful eBay merchants (Lanny and Deena Morton, who sell sporting [...]