Author: fairleft

There’s a lot of bad economics news breaking now (for example, the big Stock Market drop and more predatory loan stuff, this time about Washington Mutual and Fannie Mae), but some of the best realworld economics punditry...

Damn Russert & Williams hate Hillary; they made Jack Welch so proud Tuesday night! Dem Debate’s Questions 1, 2, and 3 are all Hillary Gotchas. For Questions 4, 5, and 6, the hosts switch to another of their important...

Barack Obama was doing alright in paragraphs one, two, and three of his Demo debate answer to Social Security crisis-monger Tim Russert, but then he had to keep going, to paragraph four’s pander to Social Security...

Here’s how Hillary Clinton feels about Social Security: “I do not believe it is in a crisis.” That’s true and that’s all such a non-issue is worth, but Barack Obama wants to be President so bad...

At last some good news from the war of terrorism front, reports Dahr Jamail. Our troops (some? many!?) have decided to ‘search & avoid’ instead of fu*king with Iraqis. Eli Wright (Support This Troop, Boo-yAHH!):...