by Terrance Heath | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
Henry Louis Gates and I are very different people. He is a Harvard Professor. The closest I got to the Ivy League was a weekend visit to Yale. He is a successful author. I am a blogger whose aspirations may outstrip his abilities. He is world renowned. I am, well,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
A cabal that includes the nation's largest financial institutions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some leading right-wing think tanks has succeeded in postponing congressional consideration of a consumer financial protection agency, and they are aiming to use the...
by Bill Scher | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
It looks like the small 6-member subgroup of the Senate Finance Committee is close to an agreement on health insurance legislation. It looks like it will be bad. It will likely not only ditch a public plan option, but also include what Angry Bear's Robert Waldmann...
by Alan Jenkins | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
Only two people know what actually went down between Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley last week, and even they disagree—apparently in good faith—about what transpired. So as the two prepare to have a beer with President Obama later this week,...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
I am pro-corporate. I’ll go a step further with that and proclaim that I believe that there are no bad corporations, and that I haven’t seen any corporations do anything wrong. I see the way you are looking at me. I’d better explain. The reason I say there are no...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
The phrase “industrial policy” sounds so Walter Mondale, 1970s, smokestacks and brick factory old-fashioned. I suspect the subject turns people off, eyes glaze over, hands reach under the table for iPhones and Blackberries… But this is SO important. China has an...
