Daily Archives: September 26, 2008

A billion here, a billion there

It worked. That’s a really large number. Kudos for a job well done. Forbes writes on part of the reason that the American public is so skeptical of the Bush administration’s bailout proposal: In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are [...]

Deliberation on Bailouts

Newt Gingrich speaks truth to… well I’m not sure who to, exactly, but the point is Newt Gingrich speaks truth! Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. And so we’ve now reached the point where I’m in [...]

The Friday Show

I was reading this widely referenced interview with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart (well worth 10 minutes), and I was struck by just how much they get the fabled ‘it’. I think if I was the President, from either party, I’d have these two talk to me for half an hour every Friday. I’d ask [...]