Author: Archangel M

In a recent EENR entry I posted about Paul Krugman’s blog entry regarding the real reason regulators have failed to reign in the excesses of Wall Street.  Essentially, the failure was deliberate — an effort to...

You may or may not remember him, or even heard of the man, but former Ohio senator Howard Metzenbaum passed away last week at the age of ninety.  CNN.com reports of his eighteen-year tenure as the United States senator from...

Leave it to Paul Krugman to tell the hard truth about what needs to be done in this financial crisis. [T]he important thing is to bail out the system, not the people who got us into this mess. That means cleaning out the...

The U.S. House of Representatives today refused to grant telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for assisting dictator George W. Bush in his illegal spying. I interrupt this report for a brief rant: I really wish...

Crossed-posted at EENR. While the corporate punditry is distracted by the flap over Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about Barack Obama and the sex scandal plaguing soon-to-be-former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, the battle...