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Comments on Obama’s Cabinet

These are the comments I sent to the TPM blog vis complaints about Obama not hiring enough ‘progressive’ people for his administration: Part 1: This cloud of dust being raised by people critical of Obama is both funny and annoying. He isn’t in power yet. Frankly the anger at his lack of progressive appointments is […]

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Official: Recession Started in December 2007

I suppose this is no news to anyone who has any contact with the real world, but the NBER, the body charged with deciding these matters, has now made the official pronouncement: the US went into recession in December 2007. Here’s the news from the Wall Street Journal: NBER Makes It Official: Recession Started in […]

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The Evidence Mounts: Obama Will Avoid The Bush Errors

This AP story carried in today’s Huffington Post is important because it highlights the problems we have had with ideological leadeership:Bush Administration Weakened Lending Rules Before Crash The important issue here is not just the hard right ideological content of the Bush Administration’s policy decisions. It is also that we should all be leery of […]

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