From an interview with Jacob Lew, Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Biden’s ambassador to Israel: When you would call them in the middle of the night and say, “What on earth happened?,” what was usually the answer? The general pattern was that in-the-moment stories were inaccurate, and that the Israeli military and government establishment were not in […]

by Robert Pollin  who is  Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (reposted with permission from the author from his website Back to full employment) A Modest Proposal for Jacob Lew: Acknowledge Three Simple Facts about U.S. Fiscal Reality January 15, 2013 by Robert Pollin In a reasonable world, […]

by Linda Beale Lew almost official as nominee for Treasury Secretary Media headlines continue to tout Obama’s white male choices for rounding out his ‘new’ cabinet.  Latest to the list is that he has offered his Jacob Lew, his current White House Chief of Staff, the post of Treasury Secretary.  See, e.g., Obama to tap […]