Interesting post on Random Rogers blog about USD
A New Accord
by
David Andrew Taylor

      It was 1985 when world finance ministers from the G5 (then just France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) led a coordinated effort to devalue the U.S. dollar. It was known as the “Plaza Accord” because it was signed [...]

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According to The Wall Street Journal, introducing the new cup of joe to market has “touched off a debate about what customers think Starbucks should stand for: bold coffee for connoisseurs or a tamer brew for the masses?”
For the last two years, Starbucks founder and CEO-for-life Howard Schultz has said that [...]

It would be awesome to have a reporter ask Tiger what he was going to do with his stimulus check. 

Ranking the 50 highest-earning athletes in the U.S.

By Jonah Freedman, SI.com
Five years ago, Sports Illustrated first set out to find the 50 top-earning American athletes (taking into account on- and off-the-field income). We discovered a few basic facts, [...]

Stole this from Random Rogers blog. Interesting and scary .
Will Israel Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Before the End of the Bush Administration? Joschka Fischer Argues Yes

Nouriel Roubini | Jun 2, 2008

I had the pleasure to meet and speak at length over the weekend with Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister of Germany and one of [...]

I’ve been thinking of shorting TLT above 95. See 5 yr chart. I realize not much movement but seems to me that next weeks cut could be it for awhile. To boring?.