I hope I find the time to comment more fully on this recent column in the WaPo by Robert Samuelson defending the Fed. But for now, let me pull out one paragraph:
The Obama administration is attempting to cast the Iraq war as a triumph of the president's vision for American foreign policy. As a candidate, he promised to bring this war to an end, and as president he's done so. It also conveniently fits into the Obama campaign
Members of Congress already get better health insurance and retirement benefits than other Americans. They are about to get better insider trading laws as well.
I find I can learn a lot by graphically examining legislative voting patterns. The recent enactment of implementing legislation for three Free Trade Agreements gives us a wonderful opportunity to compare the two political parties and the House and Senate on free trade.
If you hope the Euro crashes, that this week’s Brussels summit fails, and that European commerce returns to francs, marks, lira, drachma, and pesetas, you may be one of those rare Americans who also seeks the demise of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in U.S.
One clear sign of America’s social unease is found in the constant refrain that our current economic condition has poisoned the well for the middle class in the United States.
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