Editorial — The New York Times.
The White House is talking about levying a tax or fee on large banks to recover the $120 billion it spent to bail out the financial system. That is a good place to start, … Read more »
By Frank Rich –The New York Times.
We know little about the financial WMDs that destroyed our economy. This week’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings must shed light on what happened in the meltdown.
There may not be a person … Read more »
By Bob Herbert — The New York Times.
We didn’t pay attention to the housing bubble. We closed our eyes to warnings that the levees in New Orleans were inadequate. We gave short shrift to reports that bin Laden was … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — The New York Times.
Health care reform is almost (knock on wood) a done deal. Next up: fixing the financial system. I’ll be writing a lot about financial reform in the weeks ahead. Let me begin … Read more »
Editorial — The New York Times.
Between them, the Obama administration and the federal courts have reversed most of the Bush administration’s wrongheaded environmental regulations. But a few bad rules linger on the books, among them an inadequate health standard … Read more »
By Bob Herbert — The New York Times.
I’m starting the new year with the sinking feeling that important opportunities are slipping from the nation’s grasp. Our collective consciousness tends to obsess indiscriminately over one or two issues — the … Read more »
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN — The New York Times.
Surely, the most important, interesting — and, yes, heroic — figure in the whole Christmas Day Northwest airliner affair was the would-be bomber’s father, the Nigerian banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallab.
Mutallab … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
Indulge me while I tell you a story — a near-future version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” It begins with sad news: young Timothy Cratchit, a k a Tiny Tim, is sick. … Read more »
By Paul Krugman — New York Times.
A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy. Declare that you’re disappointed in and/or disgusted with President Obama. Demand a change in Senate rules that, combined with the … Read more »
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN — New York Times.
I’ve long believed there are two basic strategies for dealing with climate change — the “Earth Day” strategy and the “Earth Race” strategy. This Copenhagen climate summit was based on the Earth … Read more »
