Category Archives: Politics

Greece Bailout Deal Looks Even More Remote

Greece’s creditors made a remarkably harsh proposal after the ruling coalition crossed some of its red lines. Is this a plot to break the government?

TPP: 13 Democratic Senators Invite Republicans to Make Them Laughing Stocks and More Serious Matters

Despite the Obama victory in the Senate yesterday on the TPP, the bill still has some remaining hurdles to surmount. Can it be beaten?

Deal With Greece Still Looks Wobbly

Negotiations with Greece remain fraught. Only a narrow path has been opened to getting a deal done, and it is far too easy for the parties, for reasons good and bad, to stray from it.

15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World

How Bill Clinton hurt the American middle class and US interests abroad

Short Greece Proposal Update: Greece Folds

More details on the Greece proposal to its creditors.

TPP: Will Voters Re-elect Laughing Stocks to the Senate?

Fast Track authority, whose passage is tantamount to passing the TPP, the TTIP, and TISA, goes back to the Senate. Please call your Senators ASAP, particularly Patty Murray (D-WA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) .

Greek Government Preparing Plans to Cross Red Lines to Avert Default

Greek government officials are preparing plans that would cross Syriza’s famed red lines in order to avert a default. Will Tsipras capitulate?

The Russian Pipeline Waltz

An analysis of possible Russian pipelines in Europe as strategic bargaining chips.

At Emergency Summit, Creditors Plan to Make Greece an Offer It Can’t Refuse

A Eurogroup meeting ended if anything with Greece and its creditors even more alienated from each other.

Andrew Bacevich: Washington in Wonderland, Down the Iraq Rabbit Hole (Again)

The many false and self-defeating premises behind our continued intervention in Iraq.

Unresolved Allegations of Criminal Insider Trading Leaks from the Fed

A segment on yesterday’s Boom/Bust program discusses the still-open inspector general criminal investigation into leaks from the Fed.

What If There is No Deal on Greece?

The alarming part of the deadlock between Greece and its lenders is the lack of a plan on the creditor side to develop a Plan B, a sort of mirror image of the Greek government’s claim that its has bet everything on securing a favorable agreement.

Joe Firestone: Administration Tries to Resurrect Toxic Trade Deals After Big Defeat. Will It Succeed?

Well, that didn’t take too long. The wonks in the White House, the Republican Leadership and the “free trade” Democrats, have hatched another devious process for passing the Trade Promotion Authority bill, otherwise known as Fast Track.