The path of least resistance…for the health care industry
In a healthcare interview last week Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal that: “The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest…The
Story gets it wrong on Summers
Following on Saturday’s weather balloon detailing the Wall Street pay of Larry Summers, today the Times ran a piece on Summers’s work at the hedge fund DE Shaw. Replete with
DeLong has a little brother in this fight
Since the Obama administration leaked details of its toxic asset plan on Friday night, the reaction in the blogosphere has been swift and harshly critical: the zombie plans have won,
Privatization advocates led Obama transportation review effort
The privatization of transportation infrastructure was supposed to be a Bush administration goal, but based on my (LittleSis-powered) review of Obama’s transition team, it is a major priority of the
Irony at Treasury
Is it just me or is it kind of ironic – also brash and stupid – for Tim Geithner to hire a lobbyist who has worked on immigration reform issues
Connecting the DOTs on Wall Street & Infrastructure
Last week, the news broke that infrastructure spending had been cut from the stimulus bill to make way for tax cuts. Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation