Quotation for Today: Real Oil Men Drill for the Tough Oil

The enclosed quoted remarks offer insight into the future nations struggling to maintain their oil-based economies.  The upshot of the quotation is that nations can begin to wean their economies off oil and onto more sustainable energy sources, or they can prepare to bear the high costs of an oil-based economy. These costs will be measured not only in money for oil-based products, but also in the costs of economic crises, environmental disasters and international strife.

Quotation for Today: The New Arms Race

“Even at a trillion dollars, this is a shallower build-down than any of the last three we’ve done.  It would still be the world’s most dominant military. We would be in an arms race with ourselves.”

Gordon Adams

Quotation for Today: Hamlet on the Potomac

The quotation for today highlights the fact that our vacillating, Hamlet-like Speaker of the House, John Boehner, cannot decide whether to be for middle- and working-class Americans or against them (probably against them).

Quotation for Today

Today's quotation, presented on the other side of the break, focuses our attention on education.

Le Figaro.fr - OECD On Income Inequality

The OECD has published a new report on income inequality in developed nations.  This report may complement President Obama's speech on income inequality that he plans to give today in Osawatomie, Kansas.