Bob Cramer's Blog

And a good morning to you, my faithful reader(s). 

A quick shout out to myself on this hot and humid morning: the AJC today wrote about former Mayor Shirley Franklin’s amazing blog post supporting the infamous Beverly Hall and said Franklin was “way off target”.  Your earnest blogger had it for you first last Wednesday here .  Nice work, ace.

Speaking of using your head, did anybody besides me see that US Women’s soccer game yesterday?  The ending is exactly why we waste so much time watching sports and you do not turn the TV off until the game is over, period.  Megan Rapinoe is far and away our best player and if my wife says it’s OK, I am going to put her poster up on my wall (actual plaster wall, not Facebook).  See reaction to the goal here.

I was glad to see our government leaders working on the weekend.  If I can blog at 6am on Sunday, they can surely get together for coffee and talks about rewriting the US tax code and saving the nation from impeding bankruptcy.

There seems to be a lot of posturing going on.  First the President spends more than two years really not that interested in our debt.  Then he proposes an even bigger debt reduction plan than Speaker Boehner, who has spent the past few years hyper-focused on the debt ceiling only to change his position on Saturday night asking for a smaller debt reduction package.  I may be slow and now I am totally confused.

Against this backdrop, I don’t know whether to be an investor in the US stock market or stock up my mattress full of cash for the impending crash Treasury Secretary Geithner warns of if no deal is reached.  I might need to retreat to my little cabin at Big Canoe  and take up organic farming and wait this whole thing out.

But enough about Washington and all of that, today is a brand new week (you know what I mean).  Yes, everyone is a little cranky or crazy with heatstroke, wishing they were at the beach, Big Canoe or Bismarck, ND , but we have deals to close and time is a wasting.   So make something good happen, visit one of the literally thousands of yogurt places that have popped up all over town and let’s talk tomorrow.