EU Elections: What the Times Isn't Saying.
In an otherwise pretty mediocre analysis of European Parliament elections which ended yesterday, the New York Times led with this: : Center-right parties emerged Monday from European Parliament...
View ArticleTime to Eat the Rich.
Nobel Prize-winner in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, writing in the Guardian this weekend in an aptly titled article, America's Socialism For the Rich, describes the evolution of the American response to...
View ArticleCongrats, US Taxpayer. Now You Own 684 Bankrupt Hotels, Too
Well, at least a significant part of them: A legal battle has erupted among the creditors who hold debt from the $8 billion acquisition of Extended Stay Hotels, a symbol of the easy-credit era. The...
View ArticleThe casino is still open for business.
Remember when Bernanke's Fed was giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the banking industry?Remember when that wasn't enough to bail out the corrupt US banking system, and Hank Paulson asked for...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Gliberal
Interesting juxtaposition between the NYTimes front page and the column by its star columnist today. First, the (web) front page: ...as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by...
View ArticleWho cares about Sarah Palin
whenit’sDemocratsfuckingus now.For those who insist on content: The Senate "compromise" that is emerging as worse than nothing. It enacts a government mandate to force Americans to fork over thousands...
View ArticleWhite House: Lieberman sacrificing too! Now with poll!
I guess we were wrong, the White House has been just as hard on Lieberman as it has been on progressives like Sherrod Brown and Tom Harkin: Asked if Obama is as demanding of Sen. Joseph Lieberman...
View ArticleClapping harder will not make the Health Care bill any better.
Look people, I know that diaries decrying the left for being suspicious of Barack Obama and especially his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are popular hereabouts these days. And, I know how strong the...
View ArticleFrance's Real Long March to Universal Coverage
Recently, a quite well-written diary by a fellow French kossack, French Imp, explained to Daily Kos how the French health care delivery system works. Aside from explaining post-war developments in our...
View ArticleGeithner Must Go.
While Daily Kos was busy arguing the relative merits (or, depending on your perspective, de-merits) of the Democratic Health Care Reform bills emanating from House and Senate, an interesting thing...
View ArticleNY Times calling for high-level investigation of Geithner Treasury Department?
It sure would appear to be so: During the bubble, Goldman Sachs and other financial firms created complicated mortgage-related investments, sold them to clients and then placed bets that those...
View ArticlePlutocrats...and Democrats
Interesting results in a recent National Journal poll getting attention elsewhere for different reasons.In question 22, 1,200 American adults were asked the following: Thinking back over all the...
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