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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Little Timmy speaks

Little Timmy Geithner is on a book tour, launched (at least so far as I was aware) in yesterday's New York Times Magazine puff piece by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Today I ran across this quote, which sort of follows up on Little Timmy's remark that the purpose of the homeowner relief program was to “foam […]

Where are the Republicans when we need them?

Like probably all of my readers, I received an email from Alan Grayson today, asking me why the White House has nominated a guy to high office who received a parting bribe from His old employer, the Bank of America: When former Wall Street banker Stefan Selig was nominated for a senior Commerce Department role […]

How privatization works

Apparently there is yet another showdown looming. The Highway Trust Fund is scheduled to run out of money in the summer. If nothing is done (and nothing ever is ) ongoing highway projects will be shut down. Yves Smith has some interesting observations at Naked Capitalism. She suspects that this will give Obama another chance […]

They almost had me

Okay, when I found my way to this story: Sarah Palin: ‘Jesus Fought For Death Penalty Until Day He Died’, I initially thought it must be a joke. But, as I read, it seemed so…. well, plausible. But, in the end, I reluctantly concluded it wasn't true, just truthy.

Kabuki Show

I got a bit of a laugh when I read this in the Times yesterday: The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman delivered a tough message to cable and broadband executives Wednesday, saying a lack of competition in their industry has hurt consumers. The chairman, Tom Wheeler, said that the F.C.C. intended to address the problem by […]