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...

Via the Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny Calculator, here’s what the National Debt was on January 19, 2001: And here’s what it was on January 20, 2009: That’s an increase of  $ 5,005,369,081,097.44, or 87.39% in eight years. In other words, George W. Bush and the Repu...

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...

"A New York Times reporter asks [President Barack Obama] whether or not he is a socialist, but PSBO initial[ly] blew him off because he wasn't prepared for that question, after all the NY Times journalists have been his butt-boys and girls, why would he be prepared for a hard question! Once he came ...

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 ...

With St. Patrick's Day approaching, Irish-Americans are waiting for President Barack Obama to embrace an ancestor: his Irish great-great-great-grandfather. An immigrant who came to America in 1850, Falmouth Kearney hailed from the tiny village of Moneygall, Ireland (2008 population: 296). This link ...