…government. There were rumors there would be war with Saudi Arabia. But he Administration enacted high-level discussions (using, allegedly, some still-classified data as incentives) that were quickly followed by regime…

Charlie Stross talks about liquidity: What we’ve just seen, hidden in the euphemism here, is a confession that drug cartels and other organized criminals have gone on a $352Bn asset-buying…

…when World War 2 started, the economy picked up.” There’s usually something about communism or socialism thrown in to boot. And that’s fine excuse. It sounds good. And while talk…

…every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas. In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks from one coast…

…Bush Administration policy out of history. But maybe you should have taken the PNAC website down first. You wanted a war, you got a war, too bad it didn’t work…

…nonresidential fixed investment in the depression was very weak when you compare it to post war cycles. Note, that in the chart I have rescaled the post-war cycles so you…

…on the War on Terror only benefits the GOP. He epitomizes the Left’s do-nothing, or at least do-the-absolute-minimum, approach to the war. He voted against the Patriot Act, and its…

Digby: There were many honorable ways to behave during the Vietnam era. There were those who believed in the war and volunteered to fight it. There were those who were…

Have a Beer as You Watch the Video of the Iraq War Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press Sunday after Tim Russert brought up Imperial Hubris: If you read the…

…a new kind of war,” Gonzales wrote to Bush. “The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information…