Sam Rosenfeld

THE WOLFOWITZ ENDGAME. More indication that Paul Wolfowitz‘s goose is cooked at the World Bank; the board will hear Wolfowitz’s testimony tomorrow and make a decision on Wednesday. Meanwhile, if you can get past the utterly glaring and completely unspoken flip-floppery it represents on his part, Sebastian Mallaby‘s punchy column on Wolfowitz and the bank […]

HOW FAR. There are various ways one can look at something like this, but I should say that I think Eve Fairbanks is absolutely right in pointing out that, step by step, Democratic congressional action regarding the Iraq war has consistently turned out to be bolder and more successful than most people — including the […]

GUEST POST — JOSH BIVENS: MORE ON TRADE. Matt sides with James Galbraith in the latter’s recent debate at TAP on trade. I will predictably (I work at EPI) take issue. I think JKG is mostly right-on regarding his final recommendations about what is most helpful for protecting the interests of American workers in the […]

MUCH ADO ABOUT NO CHANGE. As predicted, those wild and crazy members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep their feet off both the brake and the accelerator, holding interest rates steady at 5.25%, where it has been stuck since June last year. That was widely expected. The important thing is that, […]

NEW SITE. As I promised just a “short” while ago (prior to a configuration error that held up the changeover), the new site is now up. There are some kinks — blog commenting kinks, log-in kinks, url redirecting kinks, etc. We’re working on ’em. Kinks aside, this is what the place looks like now. Hope […]

BLINDERS ON. If you’re interested in reading more from economist Alan Blinder concerning the work that’s apparently garnering him weird looks and accusations of apostasy from colleagues, see his article from the November print issue of the Prospect, “Outsourcing: Bigger Than You Thought.” –Sam Rosenfeld

WOLFOWITZ IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING. Reuters makes it pretty clear that Paul Wolfowitz is not long for his job: The bank’s board of shareholder nations will meet as soon as Tuesday, possibly followed by a second meeting, to decide whether Paul Wolfowitz will be forced out or given the chance to negotiate his departure, according to […]

CHRIS MATTHEWS, TAKE A BOW. He just asked, for every Republican candidate for president to answer one by one, “Would it be a good thing to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?” He elaborated, “would it be good for America?” It’s why he gets paid the big bucks! –Sam Rosenfeld

FOR THOSE NOT WATCHING THE GOP DEBATE … I’d like to note for the record that this observation from John Podhoretz is definitely not one that I share. (J-Pod continues to have odd notions about “wonk.”) Podhoretz is, to be sure, correct that John McCain has appeared highly confused throughout the night, but I don’t […]