Oh, Mitt. Really? You thought this was a good idea? Really?

Glad to see the excitement rising!

The Matterhorn in the Pennine Alps, on the border of Switzerland and Italy

It is safe to say this is an organization with its feet on the ground, but it’s aspirations in the clouds. Those making the decisions have made a conscious effort to make sure the franchise is financially stable, forward thinking, but most importantly fan friendly. It has a great place to call home and a growing fan base that is ready for a professional soccer team to win it over. As the attendance grows and the on-field product increases, so should the attention that Atlanta gets as a viable future home of an MLS franchise.

Proud to see these words written about the Atlanta Silverbacks!

motherjones:

Soldiers tend to see Paul as understanding the pressures they face better than the other candidates because he’s the only one in the group who served in uniform, as a flight surgeon in the Air Force and Air National Guard during the Vietnam era. The libertarian’s service gives him “street cred,” Kwiatkowski noted. ”We often in the military have no idea what the foreign policy or the military policy is. All we know is we get told to do things, and often these things are costly, dangerous, and unproductive, and create more insecurity for us and for the country.”

Full story here.

The Federal Reserve cannot continue to inject unlimited amounts of free money into banks with the aim of bailing out the banks and propping up house and stock prices without also propping up other prices.

And although the Fed still wants to pretend that food and energy prices should be excluded from inflation calculations, the price trends of the last decade illustrate that this position is ridiculous.
People have to buy food and energy. And thanks, in part, to the Fed’s desire to bail out the banks and prop up stock and house prices, the price of most food and energy keeps going up.

That’s inflation, whether the Fed wants to call it that or not.

Henry Blodget