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Say No To Jack Lew

Someone asked what I thought of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary. The King is dead, long live the King. That about covers it. Lew is a Wall Street guy. Lew is a proponent of the failed banking deregulation. Lew ran one part of Citigroup – a part loaded with toxic assets. Lew wrote budget cutting […]

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Debt Ceiling Dodgeball

The Obama administration wants us to think it’s playing hardball. Maybe it is. Maybe. This debt ceiling showdown is a farce much like the fiscal cliff. Both exist because the Republican party says so. Without the urging of the far right neither would have consumed so much of our time. Because of the legislation passed […]

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The Meaning of Aaron Swartz

This weekend has seen a flurry of comment about Aaron Swartz, whose recent suicide has set me thinking about the way in which society is dogged by bureaucracy that serves either itself or a limited elite. So many of the rules that beset us all on a daily basis exist only to protect the interests […]

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