From the New York Times today: As Wall Street rallied this week, it seemed that investors were taking comfort in the notion that the economy had become so imperiled by the crumbling housing market that it was forcing the government to finally mount an aggressive rescue effort. Aren’t these the guys who believed, after Reagan, [...]
It turns out they still know how to write laws. After a lot of very difficult negotiation, House and Senate negotiators last night reached a deal on an important energy bill that would require automakers to increase fuel efficiency standards by 40% by 2020–the first increase since the current standards were set in 1984. As [...]
The stories keep on coming. Today’s New York Daily News reports that while America’s Mayor was attending funerals for the victims of 9/11, city taxpayers were paying for his girlfriend to visit her parents: In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani’s then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents’ Pennsylvania home 130 miles away [...]
