Month: September 2016

For the purposes of this post, I’m not going to litigate the pros and cons of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I just want to note that the president is heading to Asia and that he will be making a final push (particularly...

I originally wrote the following (slightly edited here) as a reply to Booman’s post A Contrary View on Trump’s Big Day. Overall I found it a thoroughly well-reasoned post, but I disagreed with one important part of...

2 economists, testifying before a traveling US Senate subcommittee, showed that 6 southern counties in WV are in a Depression like that of a near century ago.  While looking to the future for alternative economies, energy...

So this morning here comes yet another Foundation story, this from Politico. And as I read, I realised that the Clintons can actually lose. So the story details the games they were playing with staff between the foundation and...

(This won’t be much of a diary and am only using this forum feature because I think it’s important and it’s not been given any attention here.  I’ve been relying on Glenn Greenwald’s tweets...