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Daily Archives: January 9th, 2013

Yet another installment of “What Could Go Wrong?”

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

I just finished Robert Sheer’s book, The Great American Stickup, which traces the roots of the current economic crisis back to the early 90s, when a bi-partisan (isn’t bi-partisanship great?) group of scam artists, including Phil Gramm and his wife Wendy on the R side, and Robert Rubin and Larry Summers on the D side, […]

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Meet the new guy, same as the old guy

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

I know nothing about Jack Lew, who appears to be in line to be the next Treasury Secretary, but watch to see if the Republicans allow his nomination to go to the floor without a real fight. (There will be some token huffing and puffing because of the debt ceiling and because they are, after […]

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