The campaign managers chat.

Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market who now runs a private investment firm, was arrested today. This is from the DOJ press release: On Dec. 10, 2008, Madoff informed the Senior Employees, in substance, that his investment advisory business was a fraud. Madoff stated that he was “finished,” that he had [...]

Fox News Chicago reports that a “source familiar with the investigation” reports that president-elect chief of staff Rahm Emanuel talked to Gov. Rod Blagojevich about candidates who would be acceptable to Obama, but that the conversations involved no quid pro quo or dealmaking. Meanwhile, Emanuel is under seige, telling an ABC cameraman who used his [...]

I wasn’t nearly as close a friend to Robin Toner as Karen, but we traveled many a mile together on the campaign trail, with many fond memories. My fondest was during the 1988 presidential campaign. Robin and I were following the Pat Robertson for President campaign in South Carolina and were left behind–yes, that is [...]

We have known for a while that this day was coming, but there’s a real difference between expecting something and being prepared for it. The quiet passing early this morning of veteran New York Times political reporter Robin Toner leaves a big void in the lives of those of us lucky enough to have known [...]

John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who literally wrote the book on how governments should handle severe economic downturns, penned a letter in 1938 to Franklin D. Roosevelt, offering advice on how to deal with the late 1930s recession. U.C. Berkeley economist Brad DeLong posts it in full on his blog. I am particularly taken [...]

David Letterman asked John McCain about his Blagojevich contacts last night. McCain seemed amused. DL: Now after a campaign like this — and it consumed two years, probably more, really — what do you do? What has your life been like since? I mean, you go from going a thousand miles an hour to a [...]

Charles Krauthammer is working on the basis of, like, zero information when he says: Obama has no intention of being a foreign policy president. Unlike, say, Nixon or Reagan, he does not have aspirations abroad. He simply wants quiet on his eastern and western fronts so that he can proceed with what he really cares [...]

We’ve been reading all these stories about how hard it is going to be to find accommodations in DC next month. Now ABC News tells us that among those looking for a place to stay are … the Obamas.