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By Paul Krugman — New York Times.
“Obama’s Katrina”: that was the line from some pundits and news sources, as they tried to blame the current administration for the gulf oil spill. It was nonsense, of course. An Associated Press … Read more »
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF – New York Times.
The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: … Read more »
ThinkProgess.org
Annie Lowrey writes that Senator Bernard Sanders’ amendement to audit the Fed is a potential bill killer:
But as popular as auditing the Fed is on the Hill, members of the executive branch — including President Barack Obama, Treasury … Read more »
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By Paul Krugman – New York Times.
On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, called for the abolition of municipal fire departments.
Firefighters, he declared, “won’t solve the problems that led to recent fires. They will make them worse.” … Read more »
HuffingtonPost.com
Senate Republicans have perfected the art of saying no. But in blocking a debate on financial reform, they have begun to imitate Goldman Sachs traders, selling positions that they are betting against.
Blocking financial reform is, not surprisingly, financially … Read more »
By Robert Reich — Alternet.org
Dems are making a final push for Wall Street reform — this is what citizens should be asking for.
The real scandal isn’t the Street’s unlawful acts (i.e., Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Goldman Sachs) … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
Let’s hear it for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st-century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal-era … Read more »
