Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The Quiet Coup The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of […]
MoreJeff Zeleny NY TIMES CUCUS BLOG April 7, 2009 <!– — Updated: 11:16 am –> North Carolina has delivered twice for President Obama – first, in the presidential election last November and again on Monday night in the N.C.A.A. championship game. Mr. Obama has seldom been far from a television during a marquee basketball game. […]
MoreGovernment opts for secrecy in wiretap suit Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, April 7, 2009 (04-06) 15:26 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone […]
MoreLarry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street’s ownership of government Glenn Greenwald- SALON Apr. 04, 2009 | White House officials yesterday released their personal financial disclosure forms, and included in the millions of dollars which top Obama economics adviser Larry Summers made from Wall Street in 2008 is this detail: Lawrence H. Summers, one of […]
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