Energy Security for the People
For working Americans, energy security means being able to afford to drive to work, heat a home, and keep the lights on.
A follow-up on the last post (about Harvard money managers lost $11bn): Frank Rich's column in Sunday's New York Times made a nice connection between recent revelations of Larry Summers' $5.2 million hedge fund earnings in 2008 and the fact that Summers, while president of Harvard, chided Cornel West for making a hip-hop album and supposedly thereby neglecting his professorly duties. It turns out that Summers did some real moonlighting while president of Harvard, consulting for the hedge fund Taconic Capital Advisors:
Read the whole column; hat-tip to TM.
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