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What’s going on in the Election?

I think that the right is issuing a dying primal scream. The central question has become [to me!]: why is it that conservatives do not want to conserve, but to change. The answer is found somewhere in the notion that they are deeply frustrated with the failure of their agenda. Don’t forget that theirs has […]

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The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailout for the Chinese?

Over at Slate, Daniel Gross has an interesting insight onto the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle: The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailout may help American homeowners a little. It will help the People’s Bank of China a lot. This is a great example of the kind of economics we can now expect. Because of the appalling fiscal […]

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McCain’s Big Oxymoron

I hope you are as confused as I am. The whole Republican campaign this fall is built upon an oxymoron. They want to change Washington. Yes that’s right, the conservatives want to introduce change. Hang on a minute! They want to change Washington? Do they not realize that Washington has been in the thrall of […]

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