| John Batchelor Show

The Politics of Growth

Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio, in re: Fed speak: Ben Bernanake will leave in January. Mr Heavener spoke of 3, 4, 5% - a bull's bull. Best guess I know is 3% for next year; Ken Heavener's very smart, must be counting on housing and automotive. I'm still in the 2%...
June 18, 2013 0

Syrian Puzzle

Monday 17 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Change of president in Iran but not of policy. Syria: al Q exploiting a failed state, while Surrounding region . . . Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in Iraq refutes...
June 17, 2013 0

Foreign Policy of Incoherence

Monday 17 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: John Fund, National Review Online, and David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Sr Congressional correspondent, in re: The rug is on fire everywhere, & this Adm keeps lighting more fires. Obama heading toward a record of foreign policy inconsistency...
June 17, 2013 0

Syria: Arming the Rebels

Thursday 13 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: Danielle Pletka, AEI, in re: Syria, arming the rebels, Congressional testimony. Had the US president had the courage of his convictions hen initially he aid Assad had to go, perhaps we could have avoided the civil war, not had al Q introduced, not had...
June 16, 2013 0

Snowden: The Hong Kong Angle

Thursday 13 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Ilaria Maria Sala, Hong Kong Star, debarking from a HK ferry, in re: Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old U.S. contractor who says he leaked details of an electronic surveillance program, may be seeking legal help in Hong Kong after checking out of a hotel in...
June 14, 2013 0

Australian Election or Food Fight?

Thursday 13 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; John Roskam, Exec Dir, Institute of Public Affairs, Australia, in re: Julia Gillard. Opposition Liberal party distributes menu mocking PM Gillard, esp portions of her anatomy. Gillard called for the oppo...
June 13, 2013 0

China & Snowden: Quid Pro Quo?

Gordon Chang, in re: People on the run from Uncle Sam don’t go to jurisdictions that have extradition treaties with the US; Snowden went to China (a/a/ Hong Kong); has basically defected to China. The mayor of Hong Kong, C Y Leung, works for Beijing. Controlled from the top down: Politburo...
June 12, 2013 0

China's Gathering Economic Storm

Wednesday 12 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: Charles K Ortel, managing director of Newport Value Partners, in re: COMMODITIES-Oil, copper fall, leading markets down on China data Emerging mkts slowed. US rocked by concern w Bernanke and Fed cutting back on QE3. This sluggishness has spread...
June 12, 2013 0

The Snowden Identity

Monday 10 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block C: Larry Johnson, NoQuarter, in re: Snowden flees to Hong Kong with a lot of intellectual property of US citizens. What does the info mean"? WH has no comment. (Joe Rochefort + a team of cryptographers in Hawaii broke the Japanese code, allowed the US to go...
June 11, 2013 0

Economic Stumbling Blocks

Monday 11 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio, in re: Jared Bernstein & Jimmy Pethakoukis discussion; SF Fed. In 2014, the US could grow at 3%, but will be 2% growth because increased taxes are promised – and will constitute 90% of the...
June 11, 2013 0