Monty Pelerin's World

President-of-the-World Obama is at it again. Apparently he feels the problems in this country are too small for him, or they have all been solved. His wisdom and greatness are [...]

Complaints about Washington abound. Most consider President Obama the problem. Others consider lack of cooperation or gridlock the problem. There is a problem, even if there is disagreement as to [...]

The title puts the sound of Obamacare into perspective. Orally, it is possible that the speaker means it either way. “Obama care” is the issue that Simon Johnson, MIT economist, [...]

We know there is virtually no business experience amongst the President’s advisors. That has been documented in various places. Yet that could have been inferred  from the number of wrongful [...]

China increasing their sales of US Treasuries cannot be good news. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writing in the Telegraph speculates that the sales are being used as a foreign policy tool to [...]

Image via Wikipedia There apparently is no limit to President Obama’s hubris and arrogance. He has gotten message after message on health care reform, yet insists on pushing forward with [...]

When the economic crisis hit, there were many statements about not being able to see it in advance. Obviously, these were nonsense. Any economist that claimed “There was no way [...]

As expected, the State of the Union (SOTU) speech was delivered with the usual élan from the gifted orator, President Obama. Unexpected, for most, was the content of the speech.  [...]

I don’t know what President Obama will try to sell tonight in his State of The Union speech. I do know that what he says will have no relation to [...]

Healthcare destroys a presidency and jeopardizes a political party. In the fledgling days of the personal computer industry, software vendors frequently announced products that were not yet ready for release. [...]

There has always been a bit of uneasiness regarding President Obama and his self-obsession. Some have suggested that it is extreme narcissism, severe enough to be a pathological problem. According [...]

In a post on November 19 entitled Another Failed Presidency, I stated: At this point they [politicians] are trying to decide what is least dangerous for their individual careers. For [...]