Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

To answer a question I asked last week: 2004, Serbia stopped paying Ratko Mladic’s pension in 2004. He wants it reinstated. Mladic’s son i...

Today, Bush visited Hank Paulson at the Treasury Department for a delicious beverage: “Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for inviting me ...

Condi Rice was interviewed by CSPAN: Q: So if Condi Rice is writing the first textbook on the Bush presidency, the first paragraph, what w...

Today Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announced his latest plan for spending that blank check Congress gave him: buying equity in banks, in...

This morning, Bush gave a very brief statement about the financial situation. SELL! SELL! SELL! “I’ve canceled my travel today to stay in W...

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s mouth says that Americans can be confident in the “soundness and resilience in the American financial sys...

Today the feds seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in order to “restore faith” in them (and to pass taxpayer dollars to their bondh...

In a long profile of Secretary Treasury Hank Paulson in the NYT business section, Paulson asks plaintively, “When I talk to people, there ...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made a speech today in which he asked Americans to be patient with the economy as it experiences “continue...

And a special surprise bonus feature, Everything You Need to Know About John McCain’s Campaign You Can Tell By the Expression on His Face.

News from the Max Mosley breach-of-privacy lawsuit (dude, sex with one prostitute is private, five not so much): the News of the World is ha...

Condi is “proud” of the invasion of Iraq, which has absolutely not, she says, made the world less safe. Her proof: “We’re now beginning to...

From a speech given today at a “Women in Housing and Finance” meeting. And, er, what might he be signaling here?

Today McCain talked about how every single one of his (male) ancestors has served in the military, killing people for their country. He sa...

This morning Bush, wearing his lucky St Patrick’s Day tie, met with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and then made a statement about the eco...

Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee today about Bush’s proposed budget (it’s on a laptop computer, you know).

This morning, Bush announced an agreement on an economic stimulus package, which I believe entailed taking the Democrats’ lunch money and d...