- Gingrich didn’t lobby for Freddie Mac, but he was paid $1.6 million over eight years, Bloomberg reports, and not for being a crisis-predicting historian.
- Unlike the other beneficiaries of primary boomlets so far, Gingrich polls as well as Romney in a general election.
- The Republican nominating game of musical chairs in one chart.
- The Post Office reports a $5.1 billion loss; it would be twice that without budgeting gimmicks.
- Congress won’t give the CFTC the $100 million it says it needs to, among other things, set up new oversight of derivatives.
- Federal prosecutions of bank fraud are way down.
- The Energy Department played politics with Solyndra.
- Pau Krugman and Larry Summers debate.
- Recall polling in Wisconsin proved a bit dodgy last time, but Governor Walker seems to be at a rough starting point.
- And I apologize for reposting, but I was away. Truly, one for the ages:
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