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With U.S. media obsessing on the fight here at home among conservatives vying to become president, most of them missed some big news about France, where another conservative, Nicolas Sarkozy, is pushing a Financial Transaction Tax in his country.
They're considered the "Smartest Guys in the Room" (yeah, they're mostly guys). They're the financial "wizards" like Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson, Lloy...
This morning Barack Obama channeled one of American history's truly transformative figures by visiting the tiny Kansas town where Teddy Roosevelt gave his "New Nationalism" speech over a century ago.
The higher Barack Obama soars with his populist rhetoric, the more he calls attention to the enormous gap between the promise of hope and change that he campaigned on in 2008 and the actions he has taken as president -- especially regarding the economy.
Much of the pining for Hillary Clinton seems to be premised on mis-targeted liberal nostalgia for a version of Bill Clinton's presidency that never happened.
While the President's failings in the first term have been well chronicled, what are the chances for a different, more successful second term in the White House?
If those in the media casting aspersions on the protestors had spent a decade covering the underlying problems with our economy, there might not be a need to Occupy Wall Street.
Two and a half years ago I would have given long odds that Ron Suskind's book would provide me with a lot of the answers to the questions I had about why the Obama economic team chose the policies it did. Unfortunately, it does not.
James Carville may be right: Obama ran on hope and change. And right now we desperately need change.
At a conference in New York at the end of 2008, Obama's economic advisor, Larry Summers made a prophetic remark at an event organized by the Economist.
Let us examine Obama by the standard of his cabinet members, advisers, and favored influences. His taste in associates at these extremes may tell us something about the moral and political personality in the middle.
There is still no deal in the debt ceiling impasse between Congressional Republicans and the president, so we can't say who "won." But we can definitely say who lost: America.
If you believe the polls, Americans favor some sort of structural adjustment so long as it doesn't forever alter either our basic social contract or sense of rugged individualism. For this reason, it is likely that a solution will emerge in Washington.
The spectacle of getting to a resolution about raising the debt limit is a farce and detrimental to respect for US economic might everywhere around the globe.
One of the greatest surprises of summer are those little shops that literally pop up in the city, offering new and intriguing wares -- from apparel to jewelry to toys, you never know what you'll find.
The United States is in a lost decade, or worse. But much of the loss results from the very policies Mr. Summers promulgated in the White House.
