The Supreme Court Comes to the Defense of the Dangling Modifier
Strict textualism is alive and well in the Supreme Court, even after Justice Scalia’s passing. Nowhere can that be seen more clearly than in Lockhart v. U.S., one of the…
Best of Women Attorneys: How and Why to Celebrate Ladies in Law
You don’t need a special occasion to appreciate women in the law, though International Women’s Day is just around the corner. And it’s a great time to be a woman…
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, nigeria’s capital granted bail to former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, days after he was remanded in Kuje prison, Abuja. He was granted…
Frontrunning: March 3
Global stocks, oil dip, but markets calm down as growth fears ease (Reuters) Greece cannot carry migrant burden on its own: PM Tsipras (Reuters) New Migrant Crisis Flares in Greece…
Large Cap Growth Stocks At “Pivotal” Level
Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr, The S&P 500 Pure Growth Index has broken above a key level that has alternately served as support AND resistance over the past 2 years. When…
Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot
Zero Hedge published an article on Canadian Bullion Services (CBS) last week. Other sites ran similar articles. The common thread through these articles, and in the user comments section, is…
Bill Gross Previews The Financial Apocalypse: “The Classical Economic Model Has Reached A Dead End”
Bill Gross takes a turn for the downright apocalyptic (with a +/- 5 billion year error margin) in his latest letter speculating on the future of banking and finance under…
Initial Jobless Claims Rise Again But What’s Wrong With This Picture?
For the second week in a row, initial jobless claims rose (up 6k to 278k) but remain flat at 42 year lows for the last year. Challenger job cuts rose…
The Ongoing Plunge In American Worker Productivity Explained
While revised modestly higher from preliminary levels, US non-farm productivity plunged 2.2% in Q4 2015 – the biggest drop since Q1 2014. Economists are gnashing their teeth to explain this…
“Donald Trump Is A Phony, A Fraud”: Mitt Romney Lashes Out In Desperation Establishment Attack
While the GOP establishment already hit peak panic following Trump’s Super Tuesday rout, it is about to “rise above” said peak based on an advance transcript of the speech that…