Month: January 2009

Regardless of what you think of this company, the complete liquidation of the second largest electronics retailer in America is not a good omen for our nation’s economic prospects in the coming year: Circuit City, once a...

Todd Gitlin over at TPM Cafe has an interesting post up about Bernie Madoff’s smile. Take a look at the NYT photo of Bernard Madoff arriving at court to hear a Federal judge uphold a lower-court decision that he may stay...

Looks like things are actually turning around: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28691801/ IMHO, if we get the Paper Markets to remain at least this liquid and then spend as much of the remaining TARP on foreclosure mitigation,...

Glenn Greenwald made a definitive statement in Salon in an post he wrote on Tom Friedman:”Terrorism” is probably the single most elastic and easily manipulated term in our political lexicon.  Who the...

I hear that most of Bush’s staff is going to clear out of the White House at the end of business today. Monday is a holiday and Tuesday the Democrats take over at noon (so it’s like a half-day). I think it’s...