Streaming live video by Ustream One of the nation’s leading progressive economists, James K. Galbraith, will be speaking today about his new book, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, at the New America Foundation from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EST.
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood is one of the most positive but emotionally destabilizing and unusual personal memoirs I have read in many years.
Really interesting debate. I had a lot of thoughts, which I’ve got logged below. But Joe Biden showed what a steady, thoughtful, capable pro he is. And while Palin didn’t have any of the disasters she has had in her recent interviews, she came off as an impressive amateur.
Gwen Ifill starts. The candidates are all smiles and first names. . . First question to Joe Biden.
TWN contributor Brian Till may be ‘on the ground in St. Louis‘, but I’m at a bar in Vienna, Austria — and am planning to stay up until 3 am here (I know. . .the 3 am call. . .
A loyal TWN reader just caught this clip on MSNBC’s “Race for the White House with David Gregory,” The clip is with former Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.
Deeply embedded in the core of the American economy are automobile economics and automobile culture. Showroom visits by potential buyers are down 50% this month as compared to last year, and sales of new automobiles by General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and other dealers are down by 33% on average when compared to last year.
I wonder what George W. Bush really, really, really thinks about Sarah Palin. . .I can’t imagine Laura Bush thinking much of her, but that’s my own speculation.
Tonight, I spoke at a forum in Vienna at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. The topic I was speaking on was “Electing the American President: Do New Media, Blogs and the Internet Make any Difference?” About 200 people attended.
George W. Bush will address the country (and world) at 7:45 am EST Tuesday morning. Global markets are falling in the aftermath of the single largest point drop of the New York stock exchange in American history. There is no bail-out deal for the American financial sector, and global credit markets are choking up.
