GOP Race Irrelevant? It’s (Still) The Economy, Stupid.

Steve Kornacki: Republican presidential candidates have devoted months, if not years, of their lives to chasing their party’s nomination, they’ve raised and spent (along with their Super PAC allies) tens of millions of dollars, and they’ve participated in more than a dozen debates – each of which has...

Let’s talk about tolerance

So, here we are in the middle of a global recession. One that began in our country, the land of plenty. And it is blatantly obvious who and what started. Good old fashioned American greed. But no one has, until this point, bitch slapped a bank CEO. No one has dragged Alan Greenspan’s supply-side...

Happy Market Meltdown Monday!

So, what did we learn this weekend (besides the fact that Sarah Palin is the spiritual reincarnation of Richard Nixon and John Sidney McCain III has, according Howard Wolfson, jumped the shark)? Well, the European banking crisis is spreading; US bank failures are expected to increase in ’09; US...