Category: General

Not that kind of moose hunting. The kind where you drive by and see a big moose standing in the mud, perhaps a cow moose and calves. Or maybe a big bull moose with a big rack of horns.

On Thursday evening, I attended a State Department reception hosted by Under Secretary of State for Economic affairs Robert Hormats commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the OECD.

One of the interesting global personalities who made the economic discussions at the Bretton Woods Forum organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking interesting was Swedish Social Democrat Parliament Member Leif Pagrotsky.

The Libya op-ed appearing today in three lead papers: The Times (of London); the New York Times (which includes the subsidiary International Herald Tribune) , and Le Figaro, written by British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US President Barack Obama got treated a bit differently depending where it appeared.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I chatted with Chris Matthews of MSNBC and Jonathan Landay of McClatchy News on Hardball the other night. I thought it was a terrific discussion — and was pleased to hear Landay outline the reality that Pakistan and the U.S.

Every once in a while, prominent people say things they don’t think will be heard. Apparently, President Obama went off on the Republicans, John Boehner and Paul Ryan when a mic was open that he didn’t know about. I actually think Obama’s comments were juicy and terrific — mostly on the mark and sincere.

Some time before July 8th, there will be a vote in Congress on raising the federal debt ceiling. Many Americans think that if you just cap the debt ceiling, the American government will be forced to stop stacking up debts.

The decibel level of vulgarity and character assassination on the blog seem to have subsided. Let’s not go down that road again — at all. I am turning off the controls monitoring comments for the time being. I hope that great debates, civilly deployed, now take shape here.

Philanthropist and complex systems theorist George Soros shared his views on “The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead?” at the recent, much reported on major economic policy conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Recently, a profile ran of me in the Washington gay newspaper, the Washington Blade, and in it I noted that Nellie’s Sports Bar was my favorite bar in DC. The above ad is in part why.