…Governor Romney met privately with bankers from Barclays and other financial behemoths, pocketing $2 million in campaign contributions for his time and this promise: “I’d like to get rid of…

…his re-election campaign. Allen famously lost that election after he twice publicly used the racial epithet “macaca” to describe a dark complexioned Democratic activist of Asiatic Indian descent. Mr. Connaughton’s…

Brad DeLong points to an article by Gary Younge in The Guardian: A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy: Shortly after Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 campaign for the Republican…

…for the investors and create jobs. But that’s not the type of venture capitalist Romney was. Yet the entire premise of Romney’s campaign is that he’ll use his business acumen,…

…Felix Salmon to start a “Posen for the BoE Governorship” campaign which, sadly, is likely to be about as successful as his “Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the World Bank Presidency” campaign….

The Supreme Court has chosen to be involved in many of the major issues during this election campaign. From the NYT: … the court will hear arguments in a challenge…

…(pseudo-fiscal) conservatives and libertarians – and the cracks are starting to show. If nothing else, the endless campaign of Republican debates has cast these differences into bold relief. Logically, the…

…a regular part of his speeches at campaign stops throughout Michigan in the last week or so, because he thinks Tea Partiers are anti-labor and, in Michigan, are especially anti-UAW….

…campaign. He thinks there is a “perfectly defensible story to tell” however, based on money and work. Money is not a problem, according to Jenkins. Romney expected to be paid…

…for Tax Justice and an affiliate issued Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers 2008-10. It showed that 30 brand-name companies paid a federal income tax rate of minus 6.7% on…