Steve This wonderful NY Times piece from last Sunday lays out the clear difference between economic approaches in Wisconsin and Minnesota. One being a doctrinaire political ideology where Right Wing do-nothing austerity and the suffering it causes is peddled to the masses as job creation. And the other, a can-do activist state government, taxing some spending … Read more
After 5 years of a foreign policy that felt like the one promulgated by Bush, the anti-Bush moment has arrived. John Kerry fulfills the promise of the wobegone Obama by negotiating the world further away from war. To think that the guy to finally reverse the shoot-first doctrine would be the guy we voted for … Read more
Noted: this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek. Recognizing Climate Change’s ominous portends in one of the starkest covers and stories of the year. When the 1% call out an issue, it signals a change in the media. A sea change, as it were. Congrats to Josh Tyrangiel and gang there. Showing smarts and courage. Read HERE And … Read more
We are having group flashbacks this week as those of us who were here (and those who feel as though they were) 50 years ago relive and reassess the Kennedy years by way of a horrible public anniversary. Thinking about him and our world I am struck by how radically different we are now. Somewhere … Read more
. . . Geithner got his Crony Capitalist private equity job. What took him so long? Maybe the revolving door kept hitting him in the back. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/geithner-to-join-private-equity-firm/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131117
