N.Y. Times: The President is intimately involved in who is and isn’t targeted by the drone strikes, maintains his secret kill list

New York Times reporter Scott Shane told PBS Newshour on Tuesday about the President’s involvement in U.S. drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan.

Shane and fellow New York Times reporter Jo Becker revealed details about Obama’s so-called “kill lists” in an article published Tuesday. The President is intimately involved in who is and isn’t targeted by the drone strikes, according to the reporters.

“We were very interested to discover [...]

May 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

White House under fire for adding Obama policy plugs to past presidents’ bios

The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama’s accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.

The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking “Did you know?” fact boxes to the end of their bios. Those additions were used to plug a [...]

May 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Twenty great books every trader should know And two you might want to avoid…

From bclund:

… Books are good for a general overview of the markets and trading concepts, trader biographies, anecdotal stories, and trading psychology, but by the very nature of their format, they are too limited and not dynamic enough to be relevant for very long.

Use them for a foundation, for ideas, but mostly for enjoyment. I think you will find that your trading will drastically improve that day you decided to [...]

March 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment