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Goldman Does Something Good

The lower the fee, the more money raised by the IPO that actually goes to pay back the taxpayer. Doesn’t change that Michael Moore’s analysis of GM is likely much…

Elena Kagan vs. Pat Lykos

…of him. But actually the ones who identified him—Michael Green is his name—were the police officers who arrested him on the night of the rape; he was walking in the…

Double Dips

Michael Boskin writes that double dip downturns are more the rule than the exception. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/boskin10/English I find this to be a very misleading article. What he is writing about is…

Recent quotes to catch your attention

…Afghanistan? All right? Because everyone who’s tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.” Michael