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Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street | Salon
By Thomas Frank
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”
“There has not been nearly enough change,” she tells Salon, taking on Obama failures, lobbyists, tuition. So 2016?
Continue reading Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street | Salon
Jared Bernstein: Financial Market Oversight, Economic Recoveries, and Full Employment: Some Crucial Linkages
“The way to make a train go fast is to keep it from going slow.”
July 29th, 2014 at 2:59 pm
That bit of Zen was told to me by one of the nation’s foremost rail experts back when I worked on that issue. He was explaining that part of developing a high-speed rail system entails straightening out existing curves in the track. But to me, it’s become a metaphor for the importance of financial market oversight.