By DLB on September 23, 2011
- This idea that Perry starts off strong and then weakens throughout the debate is just not true. He started off weak last night (from the very first question, and just got worse from there)
- “I don’t try to define who’s rich and who isn’t; I want everyone to be rich” – fantastic answer from ...read this post
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By DLB on September 12, 2011
Tonight’s debate was fascinating and not just because we got the clearest answer yet from Ron Paul on how much he sympathizes with Al Qaida. Essentially, Rick Perry’s front-runner status was on full display as single-digit pollers like Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann went aggressively after him, as did his primary rival, Mitt Romney. ...read this post
Posted in Politics | Tagged GOP primary, Rick Perry
By DLB on August 19, 2011
In a lot of ways this book review does not belong in my series on the financial crisis of 2008 because well over 350 pages of the 500-page book have nothing to do with the financial crisis itself. But in one very important sense this book is extremely important to the aftermath ...read this post
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged financial crisis 2008, George Soros, hedge funds, TARP
By DLB on August 16, 2011
When I first added Reckless Endangerment to my list of books to read in my series on the 2008 financial crisis, I saw that Gretchen Morgensen was a New York Times columnist, and assumed this book would be yet another carbon copy of the major myth that permeates discussion of the 2008 financial ...read this post
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Barney Frank, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, financial crisis 2008, Freddie Mac, Jim Johnson, TARP
By DLB on August 11, 2011
If the debate review feels rushed tonight it’s because it is … But I thought a few comments were in order:
- The biggest losers of the debate tonight were the panelists. Chris Wallace should be ashamed of himself, and I have pretty thick skin. But Newt Gingrich utterly humiliated him, and frankly, ...read this post
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