Lawrence Summers: Urgent Need For Short-Term Increase In Spending By Governments

FT
Barack Obama’s top economic adviser has urged world leaders to pump more public money into the economy in a co-ordinated effort to boost demand and lift the world out of recession. […]
The US administration had no choice but to take strong public action to “save the market system from its own excesses”, he said.[…]
“This notion [...]

Arrogant, Elitist, Keith Olbermann Smack Down

One of the favorite past times of Keith Olbermann (I hate that we share the same first name) is to claim that those who disagree with him are uneducated. It is not an altogether uncommon thing for Mr. Olbermann to make reference to his own education, his Ivy League education.
Recently in a column and on [...]

The Complaint

I’ve received a complaint that this blog spends too much time on president Obama.
It is factual that the focus of this blog has been, since the election, Barack Obama. It is however not factual that I devote too much of the blog to him. If anything, I don’t spend enough time on Mr. Obama.
There is [...]