I'm beginning to think of Ian Welsh at Firedoglake as the Glenn Greenwald of economics issues. I'd recommend his recent post, "There Is No Such Thing As Private Losses" as required reading … at least, if you want to know more about the financial situation confronting the country and don't mind a certain sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach when the colossal clusterfuck of commercial criminality we're dealing with pulls into sharper focus. (A later post by masaccio at Firedoglake's Oxdown Gazette subsidiary is also informative.)
Fortunately, we live in a sane society. After such ghastly mismanagement of our nation's economic affairs, surely no Republican representative will dare comment publicly about matters of fiscal governance, lest he face certain humiliation at the hands of the learned watchdogs who comprise our mass media.
On a somewhat lighter note:
Fortunately, we live in a sane society. After such ghastly mismanagement of our nation's economic affairs, surely no Republican representative will dare comment publicly about matters of fiscal governance, lest he face certain humiliation at the hands of the learned watchdogs who comprise our mass media.
On a somewhat lighter note:
