Author: BooMan

The Financial Reform cloture vote failed 57-41. According to CSPAN, Ben Nelson of Nebraska voted against cloture. I assume Harry Reid did as well, but only so he can reserve the right to move for reconsideration later. I guess...

First, would you rather the Republicans filibuster the financial reforms bill or see them cave in? Second, is it true that when it comes to immigration reform, nobody wins?

As always, David Waldman has the best introduction to what’s going to happen this week in Congress. At 5pm the Senate will have a cloture vote to end debate on whether to have a debate on S.3217, the Restoring American...

Unlike Robert Kuttner, I can imagine the Republicans successfully filibustering the opening of debate on financial reforms. But I hope he’s right that they are bluffing. There’s been surprisingly little pre-game hype...

Daniel Indiviglio of The Atlantic asks Did Porn Cause the Financial Crisis? and then asks us not to consider it a joke question. Sorry, it is a joke question. I don’t care how much porn people at the SEC were watching at...