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...side, as he told the big bankers last week. Americans aren't much interested in details, but any appearance of moving forward on reform will have support, while those who try to slow the Administration down will appear to be siding with the big banks and Wall Street. That view is supported by a new TIME poll conducted in association with research firm Abt SRBI, which shows that 62% of Americans believe financial reforms need to be toughened...
...Cold Six Thousand,” set throughout the early and mid-60s, are retellings of such events as the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., with rotating chapters containing each of three narrator’s points of view. Ellroy continued this three-narrator formula in this latest novel, following the ex-cop and mob affiliate Wayne Tedrow Jr., FBI Special Agent Dwight Holly, and burgeoning private investigator Don Crutchfield through their increasingly intersecting journeys in the political and social climate of the final phase...
...view of my colleagues, there’s two kinds of economics—there’s good economics and there’s bad economics,” he says. “If I wasn’t doing their economics, than I couldn’t be doing good economics because that was what they were doing...
...Obama, Cantor has reconvened the working group that came up with the GOP's alternative to the White House's stimulus plan. That wasn't exactly a big success - the proposal was widely panned for relying too heavily on tax cuts - but Cantor is convinced that taking the long view is the path to success: health care and global warming may be the topics du jour, but "the narrative next year leading into the election, will be all about the economy. It'll be about jobs, it'll be about people's economic security," he insists, leaning back...
...national level. The modern pundit is expected to be able to opine on any development, at any moment, regarding any issue. While some scholars make a career out of studying the details of a particular policy area, the most influential public intellectuals are those that take the broadest view. The same columnists currently writing about health care in The New York Times were writing about the stimulus bill last winter and will continue to write about whatever next occupies the national consciousness...