Over the weekend I read the following two news items: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is practically alone on the job, working night and day to cope with the worst economic downturn in decades. Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came abo...

Great. In a speech to a closed gathering at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, Paul Keating gave a starkly different account of Geithner's record in handling the Asian crisis: "Tim Geithner was the Treasury line officer who wrote the IMF [International Monetary Fund] program for Indonesia in ...

Maybe some smarty pants MBA can help me out—but preferably not one of those guys who pretends to understand those gee whiz Weapons of Financial Destruction known as derivatives. Last week that day finally arrived when you could buy a share of Citigroup at the Dollar Store. And in the pattern that ...

Perhaps signaling media impatience with the Obama administration's economic policy, Tuesday's "Good Morning America" featured a challenging look at the performance of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who the show had previously described as "wonky." Reporter Jake Tapper observed ...

On Friday, NewsBusters asked, "When Will Media Blame Economy and Bear Market on Obama?" Don't expect Bill Clinton's former labor secretary Robert Reich to ever do so, for in an article published at Salon Thursday, the UC-Berkeley professor claimed "every major policy that led to this ...

Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban - New York Times (3/8/09): Mr. Obama rode to the White House partly on his savvy use of new technology, and he has a staff-written blog on his presidential Web site. Even so, he said he did not find blogs to be reliable, citing the economy as one exa...

Given the complete collapse in the Stock Market - and Wall Street’s obvious vote of ‘no confidence’ in the new administration, it’s funny to read the plan that Barack Obama laid out for himself just two months ago: …but the markets are obviously a slightly different sit...

Dr. Krugman: [A]mong people I talk to there’s a growing sense of frustration, even panic, over Mr. Obama’s failure to match his words with deeds. The reality is that when it comes to dealing with the banks, the Obama administration is dithering. Policy is stuck in a holding pattern. [...] ...off...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 10 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. A quiet economic war is now being fought and the future of Europe hangs in the balance. As with much of the Cold War this struggle is mostly happening in secret. Unlike the Cold War (until, as ...

Economy is reeling, stock market is tanking due to lack of investor confidence, and this idiot comes up with this in front of the Finance Committee. "U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to glo...