Organizing Grievances

Opening my paper this morning was no simple task, as I am still recovering from saluting Lex and killing my liver in solidarity with my brot...

Oh, hey! TABOR is back! The Dems at the statehouse want to do something about this budget crisis we're having in Oregon. Well, not so mu...

Who cares if old J.B. Is monarch of the sea? I'm not afraid if his Free Trade scoops all my biz from me. I seek a greater fame, And get ...

I doubt that anyone who reads this blog is a big fan of the "Market." Or at least the notion that the Market makes everything bet...

In short, it was an offer that no capitalist speculator could ever refuse. Which reminds one of the scene from the film, The Godfather, i...

LGM is running a series of posts comparing Brad Delong's optimism about the Geithner plan with Krugman's pessimism . LGM doesn...

I was writing a post last night wherein I discussed wingnut attempts to pin the AIG debacle on Obama, even though their boy Bush was the one...

I was reminded why I don't watch the Sunday shows when I caught the lest few minutes of Face the Nation wherein Bob Schieffer called fo...

Interesting to see the times moving the Nobel Laureate into a left-er and left-er, snarkier and sardonic-er posture a la unconditional endo...

Via dave , if this is the zombie frame that a kleptocratic GOP wants to keep running with for the forseeable future... Bush’s grand achievem...

To second dave's sense of wonder , "wow" describes a lot of things I'm seeing right now. Honestly, I'm lacking any so...

Krugman won the Nobel in economics . I thought these things only went to Joes that spouted off about the wonderousness of the market. Remin...

On my way home from work, I was listening to the NPR. I know, I know, it's Friday and I should have been rocking out to Loverboy, but I...

I want to get this right, so help me out when I go astray. The fundamentals of the economy are strong . Although there does seem to be a cr...

Krugman : There seem to be two prevailing narratives about the bailout plan(s). Both have elements of truth, but are fundamentally wrong. O...

Okay, it's the largest single-day points drop EVUH. Who are you reading for the lowdown? You know my oracles at this point, but here...

Sept. 25 ( Bloomberg ) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., the third- biggest U.S. bank by assets, agreed to pay $1.9 billion for the deposits of W...

Back in the primary season, and especially when the manly manliness of Fred Thompson was going to save us all from the likes of girly-man Ru...

I'm not going to pretend like I understand the current economic crisis in detail. I "understand" it as far as "banks wer...

'Gotta hand it to Chris Dodd ....'even Doug Henwood (sur le LBO listserve) gave the plan a "looks not too bad." Between th...