"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Taibbi rightfully rips a NYT Op-Ed by David Brooks, “The Populist Addiction,” for its slimy attempt to portray populism as racist, divisive, as well as just altogether icky. Much better, Brooks opines, that the rabble outside the door knows its…
Former Sec. of Labor Robert Reich A third political party is emerging in America. Call it the I’m-Mad-As-Hell party It’s a mistake to see the Mad-As-Hell party as just a right-wing phenomenon – the so-called Tea Partiers now storming the…
The AIG saga is now unfolding in ways that “professionals” would not even dream of and is snaring past and present Treasury Secretaries who rushed to bail out the failed insurer’s counterparties at 100 cents on the dollar, to the…
“There ought to be a huge downside,” said Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo & Co. “Make it so that the CEO of an institution that fails, or goes to the government and needs…
From TPM, a huge and now disillusioned supporter of heath care reform Speaker Pelosi just said “I don’t see the votes for [passing the Senate bill] at this time.” In other words, plug pulled. Health care reform over. Would have…