The Weekly Chutzpah Award goes to Charles Koch—and it’s only Monday!
Economic Policy
Posted inAmerica and the World
Angela Merkel’s Bad Medicine
The German chancellor’s remedy of austerity is killing Europe, and the failure to contain financial speculation is spreading the epidemic.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Europe: Old Austerity in New Bottles
The European Central Bank makes an offer that Spain and Italy can’t accept, futher increasing the likelihood of another depression.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Third Night of the DNC: TV & Twitter Review
Time to get serious folks: Obama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Second Night of the DNC: TV and Twitter Review
The early part of last night’s DNC TV show couldn’t match Tuesday night. As I wrote yesterday, that first night rocked out over the body issues: health care for all, equal pay for women, open LGBT military service, repro rights, equal marriage laws-the human values of doing unto others as you would have them do […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Foreclosure Free-For-All
The CFPB is getting resistance from its allies on proposed mortgage policies.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Where’s William Jennings Bryan When You Need Him?
Trying to bring back the gold standard—just another sign the current Republican Party isn’t quite from this century.
Posted inEconomic Policy
“Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier”
The economic downturn has not been kind to the middle class. Corporations, however, are basking in prosperity.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Five Things Government Does Better Than You Do
We know a lot less about how to manage money than we think.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Corn, Corn Everywhere, But Not a Bite to Eat
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report on the state of the country’s corn, and the verdict is not good. The report-the first that estimates production based on surveying the fields of U.S. farmers-shows that farmers are on track to produce 10.8 billion bushels of corn this year, a 17 percent […]
