Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 14th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
Timothy Geithner, Washington Post
America is close to turning the page on this economic crisis. While far too many Americans are still out of work and face deep economic hardship, we have now reported three quarters of positive growth and the beginnings of job creation. As the economy improves, we are winding down the Troubled Assets Relief Program, and Congress is moving toward enacting the strongest financial reforms since those that followed the Great Depression.In fact, we are repairing our financial system at much lower cost than anyone anticipated and expect to return hundreds of billions of dollars in available but…
Will Obama Create the Post Office of Health Care?
Byron York, Examiner
How Republican Justices Evolve Leftward
Stuart Taylor, National Journal
nationaljournal.com > The Ninth Justice Justice John Paul Stevens, who in most portrayals has migrated from the center of the court when appointed by President Ford in 1975 to its left flank, has told several reporters that his ideology has not really changed much.Rather, according to Stevens, he has remained about where he always was while newer and younger appointees have pushed the court to the right.The record suggests otherwise. Like many of us, this extraordinarily intelligent, self-effacing gentleman, who will turn 90 on April 20, may be kidding himself a bit about his own…
Empathy and the Supreme Court
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
If you don't mind, I'm going to skip the preliminary bouts over which party is more hypocritical for switching its views on Supreme Court nominees. The Democrats now insist that decency and precedent require Republicans to green light anyone President Obama nominates to replace John Paul Stevens, and Republicans insist that there's nothing wrong with them adopting the tactics and standards advocated by Democrats — including then-Sen. Obama — when George W. Bush was in office.Instead, I'd like to get to the heart of the matter. Obama and the vast majority of Senate…
