When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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AIG and the Hindered Haircut
Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, and Henry Paulson (remember him?) are being grilled today on Capitol Hill as part of investigations
Our Wars Are Killing Us (Tom Engelhardt)
The latest from TomDispatch is about military spending--quite timely given the spending freeze--except "security-related" spending-
Obama's Freeze: Barack Herbert Hoover Obama? (Brad DeLong)
As reported on the front page of today's Times, Obama is now proposing a freeze on government spending,
Underwater, But Will They Leave the Pool?
Some remarkable honesty about the class (although of course without using that term) dynamics of capitalism showed up in Saturday’
Questions for Bernanke (Simon Johnson)
There is somewhat suddenly some opposition to Ben Bernanke's reconfirmation as Fed chair, as reported at the New
SCOTUS Guts Campaign Spending Limits
Just noticed this on the New York Times website. Jeesh. Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits By ADAM LIPTAK Published: January
Mass Backwards (Jon Stewart)
We're a little upset here in Massachusetts. Not because we liked Martha Coakley so much, and not because
Elizabeth Warren Fights for the CFPA
A couple of recent pieces about Elizabeth Warren,chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, and her efforts to make
More on the FCIC Hearings
Here is something from The Nation; it is somewhat in contradiction to what I posted late last week (here), which
For MLK Day (various)
Here's what we recommend for MLK Day: Courtesy of The Real News Network (if you haven't
Haiti Suffering: Partly 'Made in the USA'
Here is something from Bill Quigley at HuffPo. I like his take on U.S. involvement in Haiti (for a
Wall Street Off the Hook
Two good items on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; hat-tip to LF. The first is from Newsweek Online: Off