…and federal pre-emption of state regulatory rules, in addition to national banks chartering myriad state based subsideriaries. Who validates the financial models 1 Who validates the innovations 2 Occ links…

…on her rights as an American citizen, and full-scale investigations must be commenced immediately to get to the bottom of this abuse of power. [links in original omitted; emphasis his]…

…announced they are launching an auction in New York City to raise funds to advance job-seekers in the economy. The non-profit organization, StreetWise Partners, links volunteer business professionals with low-income…

…Links and discussion below the fold. I take as our starting place President Bush’s 2001 Commission to Strengthen Social Security. The Commission’s web-site lays out its task as follows (bolding…

by Bruce Webb (updated to add table) Click to enlarge. New poll: NCPSSM: Americans Support Protecting Social Security Benefits. Andrew Biggs links us to good news for those supporters of…

…to actually supply the numbers or the context, in fact Hassett who links to just about everything he references somehow manages to not link the the CBO and Social Security…

…“Interest costs associated with greater borrowing would add another $1.0 trillion to deficits over the 2010–2019 period.” Two other links include OMB budget 2009 and OMB on CBO’s New Numbers…

Robert Waldmann One of Mark Thoma’s links of the day is beyond awesome. Researchers report Experiments in the Brain Scanner A total of 24 subjects participated in the study which…

Dr. Black (you know the site) links to AIG Strike Three. And unlike the Citi debacle previously discussed (relatively) positively and rather negatively here, this one makes some form of…

Following up on Tom’s post of yesterday, PC World offers a list of “10 Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ from Apple Stores.” With links. In honor of #7, it’s…