Tax cheat and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose on Tuesday. Watch the entire interview here. In this clip, Geithner and Rose talk about the dramatic economic changes we're experiencing. Geithner's view is that this economic swing is in a different league tha...

Several items for your consideration tonight: State AGs, aided by the Obama Justice Department, are about to rain down a storm of payback upon the mortgage banking and financial services industries, including a major staffing increase for a reinvigorated SEC. A little trust busting would be in order...

Quietly, without trumpets, fan fare, ticker tape parades or walks outside of the limo that give the secret service heart attacks, President Barack Obama has been changing the way the executive branch of the government does business online.  Not only that he's influencing the other branches, in part...

The Obama Administration announced John Berry would become its appointee for the important position of Director of the Office of Personal and Management recently with this release: President Obama announced his intent to nominate the follow individuals [March 3rd]: John Berry, Nominee for Director o...

UPDATE : Daphne Eviatar has an excellent long article on this topic. Please read. Daphne Eviatar in the Washington Independent : Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained...

At least I hope so: it seems to happen too often that Obama takes a conservative position. Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent has the latest: Official negotiations among United Nations members begin today in Vienna over a U.N. declaration to guide global drug policy for the next decade. As we...

For example: … It’s hard to imagine just how much corn is required to make a usable amount of ethanol. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute has a great quote that sums it up: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.â€� A year ...

Financial TImes: Disagreements between the European Union and the US over how to combat the global recession widened on Tuesday as EU governments made clear they had little appetite for piling up more debt to fight the collapse in output and jobs. Finance ministers from the 27-nation bloc insisted i...

Satyam Khanna reports: Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’: Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beave...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...