Economic growth is in the negative, unemployment is on the rise, Walmart’s forecasting a disastrous February for retail sales, poverty’s up, gas prices are up, the cost of health care premiums are up, middle class incomes are falling, consumer confidence is at a two year low, our deficit is unsustainable, and Barack Obama has just… Read more »
Posts Tagged: books
Obama on Books to Read: ‘Other Than My Own, I Assume?’
At today’s Google+ “fireside hangout” with President Obama, the president was asked to recommend a book that would help opponents understand his politics. Obama immediately responded, “Other than my own, I assume? I don’t want to be pitching my own book!” Some media outlets were happy to bury that little exchange. The Washington Post simply… Read more »
Three more reasons to wipe Obamacare from the history books
When it comes to regulating the American economy and the American people into oblivion, only the federal government can be this thorough. Consider what The Hill reported last week: The Obama administration took new steps Wednesday toward implementing the individual mandate in its signature healthcare law, downplaying the scope of the unpopular provision by stressing… Read more »
Wonkblog’s books of the year
Ready for some new year’s reading? Here are the books that the Wonkblog team most enjoyed in 2012. Neil Irwin The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro The fourth of what will be a five-part biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, Caro brings his seemingly inexhaustible research and reporting to bear on a moment when the… Read more »