On Obama’s speech, I’m puzzled by Andrew Sullivan’s response to my asking, in my previous post, “What does it matter who caused the problem [of the budget deficit]? Obama’s job is to solve it.” Andrew replies:
Let me…
The MSNBC host tells theGrio he’s surprised but untroubled by the commentary and conversation stirred up by his post-State of the Union remarks. “I don’t think people heard what I said,” Matthews insists.
Fox News reporter Major Garrett made a major mistake last night when, while Tweeting away during the State of the Union address, he tweeted this: “To overcome the numbing weight of our politics” and other Obama SOTU excerpts http://bit.ly/…
Bolstered by a White House lobbying effort that included the president, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s chances at a second four-year term improved Monday.
He can’t pull back the stimulus too quickly, despite the public’s concerns about rising deficits, because that could kill a fragile recovery.
I thought this concise analysis by The Economist was one of the best things I have read on Obama’s new banking proposals.
Allow me a quibble over nomenclature (ie, the politics). To have this plan referred to as any kind of Glass-Steagall–&…
Dana Milbank is right.
For Democrats, the only good thing to come from Tuesday’s loss of the Senate election in Massachusetts is this: It could wipe the grin off Robert Gibbs’s face.
I think the White House spokesman is a small but not negl…
The best thing about Obama’s proposal for new restrictions on banks’ activities is the branding: you cannot do better than the “Volcker rule”. But how the rule would work, if it were ever adopted, is very unclear. No more “…
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