The Feds New Bubble (Masquerading As A Jobs Program)
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 23rd, 2010 4:40 am by HL
The Feds New Bubble (Masquerading As A Jobs Program)
The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn’t really a bill at all. It’s the Fed’s attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy (“quantitative easing” in Fed-speak). The idea is to…
What The Palestinians Want
Not to be missed: This week’s little column in Haaretz by Palestinian Authority leader and sometime negotiator Nabil Sha’ath. He is not the most popular of leaders in the West Bank; he’s grown curiously rich, and was never a man…