It will take years for the United States to restore its image as a trustworthy diplomatic partner. U. S. diplomacy has suffered a severe set back and its national security has been damaged by the Wikileak dumps of classified documents.
Today's auction of 10- and 30-year US Treasury notes and bonds won't tell us as much about the US economy as auctions used to -- because the Federal Reserve has started buying up the notes as part of Fed Chairman Ben Bernan
Name me the country in which more than 50 new members of parliament have just been appointed for life. Most of them have been nominated by a political party, without any vote.
The most interesting current political question is not whether Barack Obama will triangulate after his party's midterm shellacking -- he probably won't -- but what in the world California's new/old governor, Jerry Brown, will do in January 2011.
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