Open Thread: The Banks
Burt Likko notices that JP Morgan may be on the verge of buying up Bank of America – with lots of government help. Too big to fail gets even more entrenched. I think we...
Tagged: bailouts
Wealth Transfer
Here’s Atrios: Just because I’m petty and George Bush was very proud of the increase the home ownership rate under his presidency, latest census figures out today have the home ownership rate at 66.5%....
The stimulus effect
How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration? Economist Rob Shapiro dug into some Bureau of Labor Statistics data and came back with the best numbers I’ve seen on the subject. He...
Education & Autonomy
Will backtracked last week from this post, which included a chart detailing federal spending increases in education and the rather flat results over the past few decades. And I wish he hadn’t, despite the...
