By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 03:00 AM  | 

Sometimes, the anarchists lose. Even in leftist Sweden, The Pirate Bay’s founders lost their last appeal. It’s guys like these, who deliberately put up a system for infringing on US copyrights while playing word games to justify it, that motivated SOPA and that drive the desire for a treaty like ACTA. Google considers its privacy changes a public policy issue as the firm is getting | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  January 31st at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss a court ruling impacting the Obama administration’s US-China trade practices, how this will impact the American marketplace, and how the Senate may come to the rescue. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 31st at 02:07 AM  | 

There’s a lot of fear going around about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a plurilateral agreement under the WTO between the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Morocco. Some of the fears look real, some don’t. For example, even though it was negotiated in secret, the text is easily available. Another false complaint is that it’s another SOPA, when | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  December 19th at 12:00 PM  | 

It’s a very bad think to speak evil of the dead. Yet in the case of Detestable North Korean Tyrant, Kim Jong IL, there is a factual limit to the non-derogatory things I can say. Just this weekend, he did the people of his long-suffering and benighted nation a serious favor. That’s it. I’m out of pleasantries for the funeral oration. Now it’s on to | Read More »

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 1st at 11:00 AM  | 

Before you ask: I was raised in a union household.  I know precisely what that word means, and I am using it precisely as my late father the local union president would have used it if he had lived to read this Wall Street Journal article by former SEIU boss Andy Stern.  Let me summarize said article: I, Andy Stern, am a cheap date* who | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  November 30th at 10:10 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Hunter Baker to discuss the eventful and impactful books they read in 2011 including autobiographies of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condeleza Rice; the growth – and subsequent persecution – of the church in China; and more. We’re brought to you as always | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  November 14th at 10:02 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Governor Jon Huntsman to discuss entitlement reform, China, the EPA and more. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you enjoy the show. | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  November 4th at 01:00 PM  | 

A great number of America’s modern leaders are dangerously ignorant with respect to China. In between the bimbo eruptions, GOP Candidate Herman Cain took a few minutes out of his busy day to remind how a GOP foreign policy gaffe by Gerald Ford helped convince America’s voters to pull the lever for Jimmy Carter. Gerald Ford famously insisted that Poland in 1976, wasn’t militarily occupied | Read More »

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  October 28th at 02:11 PM  | 

**I am going to try and re-start something I had begun previously: Friday Books. Each Friday I will bring to your attention a book worth reading.  Feel free to leave a comment on books you have read recently or are reading.** It is easy to lose perspective these days. What with the 2012 campaign, the struggling economy, and the often miss-the-forest-for the-trees nature of social media and | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 28th at 10:14 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the stock market’s booming October, China’s rescue of the failing Eurozone and the failure economic models. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 26th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Ian Morris, the author of Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Futureto discuss that while it is difficult to tell the future, geography helps significantly shape destiny, how it explains the rise of the | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 18th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss the recent passage of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Columbia, Mitt Romney’s potential trade war with China, and the impact of Big Labor on America’s trade policies. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 11th at 03:00 AM  | 

Columbus Day winds to a close, a cold slows me down, but Tech at Night marches on somehow. You know what’s also marched on? The New York Stock Exchange’s website. The anarcho-terrorists of Anonymous promised to take that website down (note: just the website, not the actual trading computers). Well, they failed, unless you count a two minute outage as success. Heck, RedState pretty much | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 3rd at 10:01 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the opening of the fourth quarter, the movement of free-trade agreements in Congress and how a change of leadership could influence our relationship with China. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 24th at 04:00 PM  | 

“I asked the doctor if it was a boy or girl,” Wei said. “The doctor said it was a boy. My friends who were beside me said the baby’s body was completely black. I felt desolate, so I didn’t look up to see the baby. The nurses dealt with the body like it was rubbish,” Wei said. “They wrapped it up in a black plastic | Read More »