San Jose Shark's Season Can't Start Soon Enough

One of the new additions this summer: Martin Havlat

What is a Rating Agency (S&P)

What exactly is a rating agency such as Standard and Poor's (S&P)?

How credit agencies work from Marketplace on Vimeo.

Obama as Chess Master: 'Think of Him as Bobby Fischer' - The Atlantic

Interesting article...

Obama as Chess Master: 'Think of Him as Bobby Fischer' - The Atlantic

The start of the article:

I've published a series of harsh assessments of the savvy and game plan that the Obama Administration brought to the debt-ceiling fight. For a change of tone, here is a reader's argument today that such judgments are both hasty and unfair. In fact, by this view, we're watching a master vision unfold.

Worth considering in full. Some alternative views soon -- I'll save them for later because this is long enough as is and deserves its own space. The reader writes:
>>It's pretty clear to me that Obama is the chessmaster. Stop looking at this politically - let's look at policy. Obama has been a master of accomplishing things, even with the Tea Party Terrorists hell bent on shutting down the government and ruining the full faith and credit of the United States.