The average Joe has zip, zero, nada understanding of what the hell is going on with the economy. Don’t feel bad, many economists aren’t far behind you.
Online video producer Emergent Order and George Mason University put together a couple of rap music videos that do for economics what School House Rock did for basic math and English concepts in the 1970s.
Who is Brooksley E. Born?
Ask almost anyone and you’ll invariably get a shrug. Elizabeth Warren may be a bit better known, but if the Republicans have their way, she will likely also be erased forever from the American consciousness.
From August 26, 1996 until June 1, 1999, Brooksley E. Born chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency charged with oversight of the futures and commodity options markets.
Unfortunately, like Warren today, Born took her role seriously and lobbied Congress and President Clinton for regulation of highly complex financial instruments known as “derivatives,” whose value derives from combinations of other, more basic, underlying assets. Read the rest of this entry »
Right now, House and Senate Republicans are doing Barack Obama a huge favor. The Congress is setting up the places for the Stimulus Luau, and as much as it pains me as a Democrat to say it, our folks are doing their best to make pork the main course.
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