Is economic growth the highest priority in Obama's Washington?

What would Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, think of modern American history, all the way up to and including President Obama?

Cash for clunkers is another lesson in how a bureaucratic economy operates, one which denizens of European welfare states and their 30 percent lower standard of living know all too well.

The best investment plays are now overseas: all dollar-denominated assets are going to be punished as this stimulus spending kicks in.