A number of us have grown tired of shouting – in my case endlessly repeating myself – about current economic policy. I am sure we have worn out our welcome. We sound shrill. We sound partisan. We risk making ourselves irrelevant because our repetition doesn’t seem to add to the debate. Indeed we appear to […]

Never say never. But I have never seen anything quite like this. The Republican leadership is in disarray over the debt ceiling limit issue and the related deficit cutting exercise. Today’s events have been extraordinary. They reveal the GOP not only to be deeply divided – to the extent that they cannot hold together on […]