Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them were Janet Yellen and Sarah Bloom Raskin to the board of the Federal Reserve, much-needed policy-making positions. But do not take this as much of More…
This morning, President Obama named three people to the board of the Federal Reserve: Janet Yellen to be vice chairman, and Peter Diamond and Sarah Bloom Raskin to be general members of the seven-person board.
Yellen is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Diamond is More…
The attacks keep coming on Obama and his presumptive Supreme Court nominees (such as Sonia Sotomayor, who I wrote about today) who the president expects to be “empathetic,” of all crazy things.
Here’s RNC chairman Michael Steele’s empathic view of the whole “crazy nonsense empathetic” thing, as he put More…
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