Notice that “factoid” at the bottom of the screen?Congress temporarily suspended “equal time” rule for candidates on TV to allow the Nixon-Kennedy debateRemember that when you hear talk of re-installing the so called “fairness doctrine”.It prevents free and open discussion of politics. You couldn’t even hold a debate without the permission of Congress. And there’s […]
Brian Hibbs’ thought of the day:I think one of the reasons the economy is in trouble is because banks have started calling themselves “stores”, while the financial instruments they facilitate are called “products”.My rebuttal:You mistake advertising for policy.If they considered themselves stores and their services products, they’d see that the customer was the true source […]
(just when I thought I was done using clever titles I come up with one I can’t resist using. And by clever, I mean really stupid.)At Megan’s: Tyler Cowen lays it out: The best case scenario: The bad banks continue to be bought up, there is no run on hedge funds next Tuesday, only mid-sized […]