Ben Bernanke as Solon

With his latest, rather forlorn call for banks to help solve the mortgage crisis by ‘forgiving’ just enough of their loans to keep people’s inability to service their full contractual obligations from triggering foreclosure proceedings, he truly has gone all the way back to Solon and his 6th century answer to Athen’s very own sub-prime [...]

The Texas 2-Step is too close to call

11:1o pm and I just got home from participating not only in my first presidential primary ever, but also in probably the most interesting primary in the country: the Texas 2-Step.
I had opted for early voting in order to avoid having to stand in long lines. The only thing left to do was to caucus. [...]