Obama in Oslo
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 12th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Bernanke Can Do More to Create Jobs
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, recently had some downbeat things to say about our economic prospects. The economy, he warned, "confronts some formidable headwinds." All we can expect, he said, is "modest economic growth next year "” sufficient to bring down the unemployment rate, but at a pace slower than we would like."Paul Krugman Actually, he may have been too optimistic: There's a good chance that unemployment will rise, not fall, over the next year. But even if it does inch down, one has to ask: Why isn't…
How to Break the Climate Impasse
Hampson & Zartman, Globe and Mail
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Swingin’ Copenhagen
Dennis Miller, Washington Examiner
So it's come to this. If, and I say if only because it isn't, global warming is a man-made desecration of the planet, the head table of that desecration has been set up this week in Copenhagen under the aegis of stopping the man-made desecration of the planet. Crazy, huh? But there is a darker vibe about the craziness this time around. I used to feel it was funny crazy, UFO-Loch Ness crazy. Now though, it's becoming disturbing crazy. In the wake of the publishing of the East Anglia e-mails, I'm beginning to see a Roy Cohn-at-Tailgunner-Joe's-side quality in some of…
