Tom Friedman will realize that he's losing his success rate to the average stopped clock and retire to focus on writing non-political travel books. They will be very short. But somehow still turgid.
It is incredibly irresponsible for some progressives to call for killing the health care bill. The idea that we should scrap this bill entirely and start from scratch next year is both immoral and impractical.
The truth is that the Democratic Party has been bought and sold a thousand times over since FDR said that "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."
Progressives who oppose this bill are not being obstructionist. Rather, they are taking the position that when real opportunities to reform health care arise, it is essential to get it right.
While issue after mega-issue begs in vain for wise and farsighted solutions from our fearless leaders -- politically-engaged citizens shake their heads in disgust and disbelief.
Without bringing the middle class into a new entitlement program, the health reform bill is only going to get worse over time, and not better.
The populist in me believes that doing what 60% of Americans want is only possible when there's something closer to majority rule in the U.S. Senate.
Given what has happened to our economy in the last decade, it's hard to believe that any of the "freshwater," "efficient market" economists still have jobs, much less, credibility in how the economy actually works.
In a recent interview, I asked Paul Krugman the question on many lips: Will climate legislation kill the economy?
The only true difference between an investor and a speculator is one of naïveté. An investor is a person who does not yet realize the risks of his speculations.
I was very sad to see Paul Krugman hawking the cap and trade system in his column today. Krugs is very popular among liberals right now, namely becaus...
A second stimulus is completely reasonable at a time when there are six unemployed Americans for every job opening and when it takes six months on average for an unemployed worker to find a job.
You want deficit reduction? Then how about a wealth tax of 5 percent a year until the unemployment rate drops below 5 percent? That small tax on just 400 souls would reduce the deficit by about $75 billion a year.
Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.
The popular narrative -- that Tim Geithner needlessly favored the interests of banks over those of taxpayers -- does not withstand close scrutiny.
Government must manage the federal budget in the same way that you manage your household budget. But in truth, the president must do the opposite.
Many economists are advocating aggressive spend-and-borrow policies to revive the financial crisis-hit U.S. economy that reflect an astonishing degree of naïveté and ivory tower hubris.
The President, as he dithers on how to get in a war that he should be out of, has called a White House summit on jobs to dither about how to stay out of the Trade War that we ought to be in.
In an exclusive interview about President Obama's recently announced White House Job Summit, Paul Krugman was forceful in his view that "the jobs summit cannot be an empty exercise."
Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a wid...
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
