Reliable source of Middle East news

Hello everyone!   For years and years my favorite source, and the best source for news about the Middle East is Al Bawaba.  While I have recommended this organization for news about this important region before on the blog it seems particularly timely right now...

Home Prices Still Falling

Several weeks ago I wrote a post about the inevitable continued decline in home prices in a post dated 18 January, 2011.  This morning the Wall Street Journal is reporting the results of its latest quarterly survey of regional home prices that confirms what I wrote...

Implications of Egyptian revolution

Yesterday I described what I felt intuitively was going to happen in Egypt.  But even if the scenario does not unfold as I described it there will still be enormous change in Egypt.  What are the implications of this change for the rest of the world?   Egypt sits...

An Intuitive Assessment of Egypt

The unfolding revolution in Egypt is a perfect situation for using intuition to assess a situation.  There are so many facts to assess, yet none of them tell you in advance what is going to actually happen.   Tuning into the cosmic radio station (as I refer to it...