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Fed’s Once-Secret Data Released to Public

…http://bit.ly/Bloomberg-Fed-Data. For an explanation of the files, see the one labeled “1a Fed Data Roadmap.” The day-by-day, bank-by-bank numbers, culled from about 50,000 transactions the U.S. central bank made through…

Social Security & the Debt Limit

{Crossposted from dKos Social Security Defenders Group} Social Security has been off the radar this week for obvious reasons, progressives being more focused on efforts of Republicans to win the…

Democrats touting tax cuts

…Cut Nobody Heard of, NY Times, Oct. 18, 2010 (noting that a reporter’s query at a Republican gathering ifound most commenters saying that their taxes had gone up under Obama…

Deficit Nonsense in the WSJ

…deficits if most Americans blamed the Republicans. Republicans fought restraints on compensation of health care providers like death (panels). Republicans certainly won’t raise taxes on rich people. The only way…

…The Middle East Peace Roadmap collapsed and the comparatively moderate Mahmoud Abbas resigned. Iran may have or be close to having actual nuclear weapons (in contrast to Saddam Hussein, who…