New Orleans Are you kidding me? The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for breaking up the banks because they are making too much money and charging too much interest. It turned out he was actually calling for breaking up banks in China, rather than elsewhere, but how refreshing to have a head of state calling …
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The Cynicism of “Class War” in Presidential Campaign
New Orleans Nate Silver takes a hard look at the prospects of the Obama campaign this November in the Times magazine section and concludes its good strategy to ramp up the populism. By his numbers if Obama pushes the pop-buttons hard, the Midwest might fall in line, and then the race is won. First, none of …
Enforcing Adequate Medicaid Cover for the Poor
New Orleans Reading the report was one of those Sports Center “come on, man!” moments. This couldn’t be true. The top Democratic were filing an amicus curia (friend of the court) brief with the Supreme Court to try to overturn the Obama Administration’s efforts to allow cutting the standards of health protection under Medicaid for …