The title of your post — did you intend it as a jeopardy -question answer?

I think we need posts which journalists can see and say ‘wow’ this is a hot subject. Then we may just see some traction? Also people like Samuel and James will be supported as they push.

Thanks again for your powerful contribution.

“• The Democrats saw an opportunity to both enlarge the government and destroy the Republicans in the election.”
As much as I’m not happy with the democrat’s response to this problem, it’s funny to think that all democrats really want to do is “expand government”, like it’s some sort of goal to become as bureaucratic as possible. The republican destruction point though, is probably valid.

“TARP opened the doors for Obama’s and Bernacke’s reckless spending, and pandering to the TBTF banks.”
You lay this all on Obama. I thought the congress had to make the stupid bill and forgot to put restrictions and regulations into it.

That’s nice! Now, the key question is: Are they willing to do something about it?

Maybe they will, since Wall Street doesn’t even want to give to the Democrats anymore. That could be a liberating factor.

But I won’t hold my breath anytime soon.

There will be much work to be done if the Obama Administration wants to correct the situation:
1) Reinstate Glass-Stegall
2) Reinstate mark to market accounting
3) Remove the so-called Bear Stern exception
4) Fire Geithner and Summers
5) Audit the Fed and remove any regulatory role from them
6) Pass a strong CFPA bill

Thank you Simon for pointing out this obvious fact in relation to our financial system. Until it becomes an accepted fact, we are just shooting for the spittoon.

how about a hard working, hard smoking, hard drinking, hard philandering, really dull rascal, devoted to cutting down to basics and highly allergic to BS ooops expertise saturated jargon?

and here is Andrew Sullivan telling all the Obama doubters that they’ve got it all wrong in quite flowery language btw
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article6879277.ece

There have been steps. Well, basically, there’s been one step. We have a debt crisis. We upped the ante by piling on a lot more debt to cover the existing debt. Feels better for the moment, because the game can continue without that pesky feeling that the world is about to collapse. But has it prevented that collapse or postponed (and worsened) it?

This is very much a step in the WRONG direction.

I don’t think so, my experience is that there are few sites which (or whose?) own search features provide the results one would expect. It has gotten better over the years i.e. there are more of them now working fine, but all in all I find I am often better off with google especially when I have a “piece of text”

Interesting. When I went back in the archives here to September ’08 to get some samples to check. I took a phrase from a comment, and the name of a commenter and googled that, which produced the proper search result immediately. Yesterday that wasn’t happening. But I think this is why:

I wanted to go back and see if I could collect all my comments from the early days in one google search. If you search, eh, for example, site:www.baselinescenario.com “Silke” “2008″, results come out, but I missed the fact that they’re “rolled up” and you have to click on the link beneath the result to fully expand all the results from the particular site.

Hard to say if they’re all there, but it looks like it, for 2008. About 180 posts in 3 months. 2 a day on average.

I still don’t see a way to search the comments from the embedded search box on the site itself. Is this by design?

As I look at the youth today I don’t see the seeds of success for the future the odds are stacked up against them. Huge debts to pay back. The cost of their Education has become prohibitively expensive and with the downturn of the economy it is now being rationed. Many state schools are cutting classes and wholesale dropping students from their rosters. Thanks to privatization of student loans those who graduate with professional diplomas are spending the first decade of their careers paying back these loans, that is if they are lucky to be employed. Free Education should be our next priority after public health care is passed. I benefited from free education so should our children.

The intransigence of the entrenched interests and the partisan politics further assure mutual self-destruction.

The best and brightest aren’t coming to the US. They are staying in their countries as they are valued by their own and have serious nascent economies. The opportunities aren’t in the US it is in the rest of the world.

It isn’t the fault of Mexicans that you have cheap produce and labor. It is moronic to blame them for the fiasco wrought upon us by greedy Wall Street and the white establishment after all weren’t they in control? Look at yourself before you blame others those who weren’t even remotely close to the levers of power.