And yet the other part of the speech about the banks--the part about how rescuing the financial system isn't about rescuing bankers its about rescuing the entire American economy--was spot-on.
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Clearly, a new VP was needed, and Roosevelt tapped Wallace, a reliable liberal, in part to ensure loyalty and in part because FDR new full well that he was turning away from the New Deal and toward national security and wanted to keep the New Dealers in the tent.Wallace went back to farming, [and]supported the Korean War in 1950.
Why? Well, we don't have any high-voltage transmission lines going into the part of the country where the best onshore wind resources are, and we have few lines going to where the best solar power sights are:
Felix Salmon comments on the stock market dropping below its November lows:The fact is that prospects for the economy are much worse than they were in November. As such, it stands to reason that stock prices should be lower than they were in November: if they were much higher, and the Dow was still above 9,000, that would be the real news, since it might imply that the November lows were panic-driven rather than rational.
That's right, but I think people's Dow-driven anxieties point to a larger pathology that started at the policy level and has now infected the media and the general public's understanding of how the economy works.
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And the increase in value was driven by a combination of speculation, and buy the fact that consumption was creating economic activity.
He agrees that they're statements are false, but somehow I'm to blame?
Richard Danzig, a former Secretary of the Navy who was a key Obama defense policy adviser thoughout the campaign, will be taking a position at the Center for a New American Security rather than joining the administration. Initial transition speculation had him serving as Robert Gates' deputy at the Pentagon in anticipation of taking over the top job down the road, but evidently that didn't work out and none of the other jobs he was offered were too his liking.
You could solve the entitlement problem fairly easily, if brutally, without tackling the health care problem--just pair back benefits.
The authors of the constitution never intended for their to be a supermajority requirement for legislation to pass the Senate, and until extremely recently there was no such requirement.
The Decemberists "The Bagman's Gambit" is a noteworthy recent DC-located song....
So the House of Representatives including Mall refurbishment funds in their stimulus bill. But know-nothing conservatives decided that fixing up important national landmarks sounds funny, so they've spent a week mocking the idea. And instead of punching bask and asking if the right-wing intends to just let the whole country fall apart for the sake of a sound byte, the Obama administration is backing down and getting the provision removed.
Relieving that congestion will due us enormous enduring economic good.
From a political point of view, there are too things I like about this release. One is that it doesn't overpromise. One of the biggest risks facing progressive politics at the moment is that we inherit a deteriorating situation, take action that ensures things get "bad" rather than "terrible," and that get blamed by the public and the right for creating a bad situation. To that end, it's important not to make unrealistic promises about what you're proposing. Romer and Bernstein are clearly saying he that even if this works, we're going to get to a bad place.
In this case, the high price of parking is keeping customers away from stores and the meter rates are two high.
At a certain point, it became clear to the apartheid leaders that there system was untenable. But they were still more interested in the upholding the interests of white South Africa than in abstract considerations of justice.
