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  • Bailin' on Palin

    In case there are any Republican bosses / campaign strategists reading this blog, here’s a recommendation: drop Palin. She seems like a lovely lady, but truthfully she’s in over her head. Instead, why not capitalize on the economic crisis by bringing Romney on board? I’m not really a Romney booster, but it sort of makes…

  • When Vader Bails People Out…

    Raghuram G. Rajan, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said: Where are the titans of the financial sector at this point? Why aren’t they coming together in a room at the New York Fed and saying, “This is a severe crisis for the financial system and we are going to put up some…

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    Brookings Institution: Concerns about the Treasury Rescue Plan

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883