The Highroad

boulderweekly.com/highroad Doing a public service was the very last thing on the minds of the geniuses at Goldman Sachs who created Abacus 2007-ACI, but I, for one, am grateful to them. Abacus is the name of the investment package that has caused mighty Goldman...

How much of your money does Donald Trump want to pour into his xenophobic fantasy of erecting an impenetrable wall on our Mexican border? The...

The Trump tax plan is not selling well. Indeed, two-thirds of the American people oppose it, and only 16 percent believe it would reduce...

An old country saying notes: “You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure.” However, President Obama’s department of agriculture intends for us to give it a try...

boulderweekly.com/highroad An odd brotherhood is joining the populist push to rein in the narcissistic greed of Wall Street giants: Wall Streeters themselves! There’s John Bogle, the 80-yearold founder of Vanguard Group: “I am a believer that the system has gone ...

Food fight, everyone — let’s all join the fun...

Betsy DeVos and her hubby, Dick, are lucky enough to have inherited a big chunk of the multibillion-dollar fortune that Daddy DeVos amassed through...

Well, I didn’t expect this!        The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be...

In most state legislatures today, bizarre is not unusual, and off-the-wall has become the political center...

It’s always interesting to see Congress in action — though “interesting” can also be appalling. For example, what a sight it is to watch Republican leaders as they gleefully try to repeal Obamacare — the law extending health care coverage to all Americans. As they ...

Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days — quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America...

Noting that the U.S. military was developing armed, autonomous robots to serve as battleground soldiers in our wars, a 2015 New York Times article...