Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Rachel Maddow's show turns out to be quite the success for MSNBC.
I wonder how an Obama White House will deal with MSNBC's flirtations with establishing itself as the progressive-friendly cable network. An incumbent administration has a lot of ability to reward particular reporters, hosts, and networks with access, scoops, ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Of the different forms of legalized gambling permitted in the United States the most common is also the least-justifiable — the state-sponsored lottery. That industry, meanwhile, is dominated by a firm called GTech. A firm that, as Ken Silverstein details, has extensive ties to the McCain team.
What's particularly infuriating about ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The drop in Wall Street's bonuses "could rival" the 50 percent fall seen in 2003, with the current market crisis cutting the total amount paid by banks and brokerages to $16 billion, the state comptroller said on Monday.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Some months ago, in exchange for cash money I agreed to read Doug Feith's book. It was a curious experience. At first, it leaves you wondering how ideas so dumb could possibly have survived the slightest contact with rational human beings. But then you realize that Feith's ideas about how ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European governments scrambled to shore up banks on Monday, carving up firms and committing billions of euros as the credit crisis tore through Germany, Britain, Belgium and beyond.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Right now, the bailout doesn't have enough votes to pass. Predictably, the House GOP has double-crossed the Democrats and failed to deliver the votes they promised.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Brandon Friedman makes a good analogy:
Pakistan is the AIG of international affairs. It's on the verge. And the world has to prevent it from collapsing. Because if it goes down–nukes and all–it's taking everybody down with it.
It's a little distressing, in light of that reality, that John ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The world's central banks redoubled their efforts on Monday to revive the paralyzed global financial system but their efforts may come to naught after U.S. lawmakers rejected a bank bailout bill.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Given that the House GOP didn't deliver the 80 (or whatever) votes that Democrats were making substantive concessions in order to achieve, now I really don't see why the Democratic leadership doesn't tear this thing up and start writing a progressive bill. Not only might that produce a good outcome ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Here's a pretty good AP article about the parking minimums debate in DC and around the country. It leads with the story of Jeff and Alice Speck who live in my neighborhood and built this cool house on an otherwise unusable corner triangle lot:
Alice and Jeff Speck didn't have a ...
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