Subject:
Henry Waxman Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939) is an American politician. He has represented California’s 30th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1975. Waxman, a Democrat, is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. His district includes much of the western part of the city of Los Angeles, as well as West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Before his election to Congress, he served six years in the California State Assembly.
With the Democrats’ victory in the 2006 midterm elections, Waxman became chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the principal investigative committee of the House. He was the committee’s ranking Democrat from 1997 to 2007. In 2009, he began serving as the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after defeating Chairman John Dingell in a 137-122 secret vote of House Democrats on November 20, 2008. (Wikipedia Jan 2010)
State finance:
By John Schroy, on July 6th, 2009 |

On July 2, 2009, the Federal Reserve announced that it was aware that the State of California was issuing its own currency to pay its bills.
This, of course, is consistent with the lack of fiscal discipline which is the hall mark of far left Californian politicians, of which Nancy Pelosi is a prime example.
California has experience with nut-case economics, having been the home of the famous Emperor Norton who issued his own currency to pay his bills in the mid-19th century.
US politics
By John Schroy, on July 5th, 2009 |

On the 4th of July weekend, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, resigned her position as Governor of the State of Alaska. This has raised questions as to her political future.
Sarah Palin and her family have been severely, viciously, and unfairly attacked by far left ideologues who hate her and her family as a representatives of a traditional, Norman Rockwell America. Is Sarah finished? Her enemies hope so.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on May 5th, 2009 |

Current publishers of financial statistics, like Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, only deal with a tiny fraction of the useful data now freely available on the Internet. This article traces the historical development of 20th century financial publishers and suggests new sources and techniques available to Post Modern Security Analysts in the 21st century.
Semantic wikis, collaborative research, Capital Market Taxonomy, and free data collecting tools like Zotero are discussed.
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