Swampland emigrant Tom T (I love it that so far I’m only getting the cogent and nonabusive Swamplanders) wants to know, in a comment to my post about politicians’ ties to Wall Street: [W]hy is it that these “entanglements” are only a problem when the one entangled is a Democrat? Why didn’t we hear more [...]
Karen Tumulty over at Swampland has a question (spurred by this Washington Post article on John Edwards’ work for Fortress Investment Group) on politicians’ ties to big hedge fund and private equity money: Is this going to be an issue as the campaign moves forward? My own business writing days ended long ago, when derivatives [...]
Economist Brad DeLong, as part of his long-running campaign to persuade the world that journalists are flawed (and many are; unlike academic economists, who are right about everything and also smell great!), had a post Saturday tearing into the Economist for allegedly mischaracterizing the neoconservative movement. Brad apparently thinks Daniel Moynihan and Daniel Bell weren’t [...]
