Both President Obama and Vice President Biden denounced the excesses of Wall Street today. Biden, with characteristic gruffness, told CNBC: “I’d like to throw these…
The man I wish was Treasury Secretary had this to say yesterday:
As the Obama administration apparently prepares to launch Hankie Pankie II — buying…
Ned has a good post up at his home blog about the the zero “yea” votes by Republicans on the stimulus package. Here’s the thing…
Florida has something of a problem with sinkholes, and last summer Miami had to deal with a particularly nasty one. A large sinkhole opened up…
Ugh. From the friggin’ New York Times:
The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months,…
Felix Salmon makes the case for the The New York Times and other major newspapers to go nonprofit:
What’s more, I suspect that the future…
Gillibrand may not be as liberal as we’d all like, but she’s got the right idea where transit is concerned. Dana Goldstein writes:
After being…
The New York Times reported yesterday that during the period covering last summer and fall university endowments took their largest loss in value since the…
Ryan Avent wrote a good description of the dangers of the fare hikes sweeping public transit systems across the country:
But the most important thing…
While reading Irving Howe’s Socialism and America over the weekend I couldn’t help but notice similarities between our collective reaction to the present economic crisis…
The best argument that conservative critics of the stimulus bill have is that the spending won’t be fast acting enough. Of course, the Obama team…
Matthew Yglesias makes one of the most sensible, if not the most sensible, stimulus proposals I’ve heard:
All around the country, after all, we have…
Information about the House’s version of the stimulus package is just coming out, and, when it comes to higher education, the news is… well.. mixed.…
According to The Boston Globe, it seems that young people are moving back in with their parents in greater numbers. While the experts cited in…
Among the many points Matthew Yglesias hits on in this post about a high-speed rail stimulus, this one stuck out to me:
I will say…
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