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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Government of the People

Monday, May 3, 2010

Funny that the teabaggers can’t seem to get upset about this sort of stuff (via Atrios): As top Federal Reserve officials debated whether there was a housing bubble and what to do about it, then-Chairman Alan Greenspan argued that the dissent should be kept secret so that the Fed wouldn’t lose control of the debate […]

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Public Option

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Although I never wrote about it, I remember thinking at the time that nationalizing the banks was being discussed that it would not be a bad idea to have a permanent national bank of some sort to keep the private banks honest, much like the late lamented health care public option might have kept the […]

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