On behalf of the great state of New Jersey, I’m insulted: Trenton didn’t make this list of America’s 10 dying cities. OK, Atlantic City was on the list, but still.
Paul Krugman is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times.
This isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.
Republicans and conservative Democrats are eager to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the 120,000 richest people in America.
The policy elite are making a strange argument in demanding that we engage in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods.
Critics of the program claim that its future is in peril. But their math doesn’t add up, and underneath their hostility is ignorance of the realities of life for many Americans.
A decade ago, Ben Bernanke had some sharp criticism for how the Bank of Japan was handling a cool economy. Now he’s the Fed chairman, and that critique of Japan could be applied to the Fed today.
Some more thoughts, and reader comments, on my column about President Obama and his failures in Sudan.
On the right side of the blogosphere, sympathy for Ken Mehlman. On the left, not so much.
