A glass half full in London
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 4th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
A glass half full in London
Here is what’s noteworthy for me in the G20 communiqué: An additional commitment of $500 billion to increase the IMF’s lending capacity, although only half of this is an immediate commitment, while the other half is promised as part of…
It’s a Depression
The March employment numbers, out this morning, are bleak: 8.5 percent of Americans officially unemployed, 663,000 more jobs lost. But if you include people who are out of work and have given up trying to find a job, the real…
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Obama: “Don’t Think We’re Not Keeping Score, Brother”
Karl Rove says that is what the President told Rep. Peter De Fazio after the Oregon Democrat voted against the stimulus package. Heavens to Lyndon Johnson, this made my day. I always assumed that Obama could be a tough m’fer…