August has a tendency to cause problems for whatever party happens to control Congress. You might not remember the summer of 1995. The freshman class of the Gingrich Revolution was busy stripping funding out of the federal...
Read MoreI’m going out on a limb here. Monetary policy is certainly not my field. But it seems to me that UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) has dropped a bombshell. A report released in Geneva last night calls for the...
Read MoreNo, Josh, you have it exactly right. If you want to make people furious, make them buy something they can’t afford and make the budget deficit astronomically worse at the same time. That’s the brilliant plan. But,...
Read MoreE.J. Dionne is right. The Supreme Court is on the verge of striking down the ban of direct corporate donations to political campaigns. We have enough corporate money washing around our political system already, and most reform...
Read MoreThe reason that I am hoping the Democrats push the health care bill through the budget reconciliation process is simple. We can get a better health care bill at the 51-vote (including Biden) threshold than we can get at the...
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