The Insider’s Crusade

By DAVID BROOKS
Published: November 21, 2008
Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly. Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary ( Read more... )

Nicked from Paul Krugman's blog:

So, it appears that a sinister cabal is taking control of economic policy, not only in the United States, but in much of the world.

Seriously, isn’t it amazing just how impressive the people being named to key positions in the Obama administration seem? Bye-bye hacks and cronies, hello people who actually know what ( Read more... )

In spite of the fact that there are many other things I should be doing at this moment, I thought I'd take a second to address some of the media hysteria (and internet hackery) surrounding the formation of Obama's cabinet.

What astonishes me the most about all of the hand-wringing over Hillary (I've even read some people blathering on about ( Read more... )

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Choose Your Own Adventure! (Election Night Edition)

Andrew Romano | Oct 29, 2008 03:30 PM- Newsweek
WARNING: Supergeeky content ahead.

Despite all my-blabbering and bloviating about "the latest polls," the only polls that matter are still the ones that close on Election Night.

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I never paid a whole lot of attention to Paul Krugman.  I read his column in the New York Times whenever he popped up, but I always found it to be a little dry.  I suppose I always liked his criticisms of Bush, but never thought they were as interesting as Dowd's or Frank Rich's.  I also never understood his support of Hillary Clinton when it ( Read more... )

Now that it appears governments have learned the lessons of 1929, I thought it time to take a 10/13/08 snapshot those winners and losers in the great, and still unfolding, economic crisis of 2008.

WINNERS:


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