Alan Greenspan announces increased rate hikes...
I guess the shrub is in a predicament cause the economy is showing very few signs of life. Here in silicon valley, many tech companies have announced lower than expected earnings. (That was actually a little shocking to me cause I was expecting the local economy to be better. I am a homeowner here, so I don't want to see it get worse than it is.) While a bad ecomony is good news for folks who want to see evil dictators out of US office, the bad news is that for them to be ousted, the nation really has to suffer more. Perhaps this is because most of the folks in our nation are easily duped into voting for extremes. For example, the the radical vote tallies (record number of people registered at the polls and actually voting) in recent times have proven this. Furthermore, it also has revealed how divided our nation is: you are either extreme right or extreme left. Conservative or republican. The reason I bring this up is because I think extremism is a sign if ignorance. (E.G., fundamentalists and hippies)
