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Feasible Stimulus Politics ?

…were embracing the idea of a payroll tax holiday. This is also fine policy, but it is a Republican proposal. The article by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG notes that Rahm Emanuel…

Massachusetts senate election

…during the day ran consecutively from different funding sources. The ceremonies for Martin Luther King took a backstage on this holiday. There appears to be a lot of attempts at…

Not-So-Select Short Subjects

Now that I know we’re just members of the “Peanut Gallery,”* let this random links post work as a placeholder for longer posts as we prepare for the “holiday”: Shorter…

That 3.5% rise in GDP

…Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes,…

Canadian Independence Day Daytime Movie Lineup

…India Company (think Wal-Mart with a British accent). Also, we had Stevie Wonder last night and you didn’t. The bad news is it was the night before a National Holiday