Where our North Korean visitors should stay in Hong Kong to avoid reality
Spike columnist JON MARSH finds the perfect host for Pyongyang's delegation to the East Asian Games - Chief Executive Donald Tsang "North Korean athletes to be kept isolated," screamed the headline on the back page of the South China Morning Post. It seems that the 200-strong delegation from Pyongyang wants to keep its distance during the oh-so-exciting-event-of-a-lifetime East Asian Games in Hong Kong this December. Providing, of course, that Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il, has not provoked a nuclear holocaust by then, the North Koreans will be housed in a... Read More

Blame Ronald Reagan
"This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions.... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot." declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.  The jackpot finally came more than 25 years later, in the form of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.  For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes... Full Story  Discuss