washingtonpost.com - 1/19/2009
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Sunday, January 18, 2009; B01 There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush . Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players and ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
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10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
rollingstone.com - 1/18/2009
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Dear Mr. President: Like FDR three-quarters of a
century ago, you're taking charge at a moment when...
all the old certainties have vanished, all the conventional wisdom been proved wrong. We're not living in a world you or anyone else expected to see. ...
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What Obama Must Do
theagitator.com - 1/23/2009
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Rock ‘n’ Roll : President Obama yesterday eliminated
the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against...
terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the “war on terror,” as President George W. Bush ...
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Dissident Notes on the Obama Coronation
Cato @ Liberty —
... Bob Woodward offers 10 lessons Obama could learn from the mistakes of the Bush administration. One of them is “Righteous motives are not enough for effective policy.” Woodward directs all his lessons at foreign and defense policy, but that’s a good rule for domestic policy too. The fact that a policy sounds right-minded — create jobs, raise the minimum wage, ban sweatshop products, mandate energy efficiency — doesn’t mean that it will work. Economic processes are dynamic, not static. Benefits have costs. Another of Woodward’s rules is ...
Ten Takeaways from the Greenspan Years
The Aleph Blog —
... to this Bob Woodward piece in the Washington Post. I thought it was a good piece, but said to myself, “Wait. He also wrote ...
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ritholtz.com 1/27/2009 — One last article reviewing the outgoing administration:
Bob Woodward has an interesting take away from the past 8 years. Woodward has spilled as much ink as anyone covering the Bush White House — 11 hours of interviews with Bush, hundreds of ...
In Which George W. Bush Enters History
economicprincipals.com 1/26/2009 — George W. Bush left Washington last week amid a hail of jeers. “The Frat Boy Ships Out” headlined The Economist . “Serially incompetent,” declared the Financial Times . “Worse than Hoover,” concluded Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley.
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ritholtz.com 9/11/2009 — Doug Casey is chairman of Casey Research, and is a best selling author, international investor, and entrepreneur. He travels the world looking for exceptional opportunities in real estate and undervalued companies in the natural resource sector ...
2009 Deficit Would Have Been The Same Under Bush
capitalgainsandgames.com 8/10/2009 — Don Marron picked up on my pos t from late last week about the possibility (which based on additional discussions over the weekend I now officially upgrade to "likely") that the fiscal 2009 deficit will be much less than expected and did his usual ...
Bush from the Inside
capitalgainsandgames.com 9/23/2009 — I am reading Matt Latimer's book, just out today, Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor . Two things struck me. First is confirmation of the portrait of George W. Bush that I painted in my Impostor book of a bully who cannot stand to be ...
What’s Not So Great About Obama’s Proposal to Pay As He Goes
economistmom.com 6/11/2009 —
Today the President unveiled his proposal to bring back statutory “pay-as-you-go” (PAYGO) rules to the federal budget process. As a story in today’s Washington Post (updated online this afternoon) notes, there are ...
More Latimer on Bush
capitalgainsandgames.com 9/23/2009 — I'm continuing to read Matt Latimer's book and thought I would highlight a few more things that caught my attention.
In chapter 8 Latimer talks about the White House policy of having the president make public comments on at least a daily ...
CAFE, Part Two
baselinescenario.com 5/21/2009 — In the same post I discussed yesterday, Keith Hennessey cites the same NHTSA report – the Final Rule governing CAFE standards for model years 2011-15, issued in January 2008 – to make this point: “The proposal will have a trivial effect on global climate change.” ...
Will Anyone Give Bush a Job? —
The Big Money 1/19/2009
For many of President Bush's critics, the fact that he is now seeking work in the worst job market in a generation is poetic justice. As Bush noted in his farewell press conference, he is too much of a Type A for "the big straw hat and Hawaiian ...
Space travel: Mars rising? —
The Economist: Full print edition 1/22/2009
Why NASA should give up its ambitions to send men into space AS LONG as people have looked up at the night sky, they have wondered whether humanity is alone in the universe. Of places close enough for people to visit, Mars is the only one that ...
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