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Here’s the cover of the latest edition of Bloomberg’s Businessweek: Nothing says fear like a bunch of black people with money and owning a house! Bloomberg gets the “racist garbage” of the week award, hands down! (h/t Yglesias)

Caroline Baum from Bloomberg has some very interesting advice for Democrats this fall: Congressional Democrats like to blame former President George W. Bush for just about everything: the lousy economy, high unemployment, trillion-dollar deficits, two wars – and probably the bedbug epidemic in New York City. With the 2010 midterm elections 10 weeks away, Democrats […]

While progressives are still celebrating the passage of healthcare reform by the House, there seems to be amnesia when it comes to who we are dealing with – big pharma. One thing missing in healthcare reform that really should be there is dealing with situations like this: On the morning of Sept. 2, 2009, another […]

Is Citigroup becoming viable? Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said his bank is having the best quarter since 2007, when it last posted a profit. The shares rose as much as 27 percent and helped spur gains for finance company stocks. “I am most encouraged with the strength of our business so far […]

Lanny Davis posted a blog on The Hill today entitled: Recent Polling Data Show Serious Concerns About Sen. Obama’s ‘Electability’ Over Sen. McCain vs. Sen. Clinton’s (Lanny Davis) Very interesting. I saw that and thought there was a bunch of polls I missed. Quickly I went to Real Clear Politics and looked at the recent […]

He has officially said he will not run for President this year.

Al Gore, the man I really want to be our next President, just got an endorsement from someone we might not expect: Throwing a curveball into speculation about both his – and Al Gore’s – political future, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made a provocative comment today about a possible Gore presidential run. “I hope Al Gore […]

Bloomberg is reporting that the investigation into the phone jamming scandal is now widening: To Republicans, the New Hampshire phone-jamming incident is an isolated case of political dirty tricks that took place more than three years ago. To Democrats, it’s a scandal with echoes of Watergate that may reach all the way to the White […]

Bloomberg.com have reported further detail on the nuclear agreement between the USA and India, whats interesting is Bush has said that both countries are in the fight againt terrorism TOGETHER. Sure looks like a bit of… “we will give you assisatance with your civil nuclear capabillities and you back our actions in Iraq and Afganistan, give […]

Bloomberg has this interesting yet troubling piece of news regarding Bush’s new budget: Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Under President George W. Bush’s new budget, the federal deficit would decline gradually until 2010 and then start rising again, as the full impact of his requested permanent tax cuts and other proposals is felt. Bush’s budget for […]