If You Only Read One Thing Today…
…let it be this.
Commercial-Mortgage-Backed Securities? Oh, You Mean Wall Street Screwed The Pooch On That One Too?
A good friend of mine works in commercial real estate in New York and has been waiting for the CMBS shoe to drop for months now. Well, it looks like the show just dropped. Per this morning’s Wall Street Journal: Federal Reserve and Treasury officials are scrambling to prevent the commercial-real-estate sector from delivering a [...]
Rock & Roll Monday
Willie Nelson, still rocking in the free world! Happy Monday, everyone.
The RNC’s Political Strategists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About On Health Care
And it shows. Jon Henke has his smart take on the Republicans 2010 health care strategy here. Crib note: Policy nonsense. Politically stupid. In the meantime, I have video of RNC strategists sitting in DC discussing how the Republicans should message health care in 2010: h/t Blue Hampshire for the NPR catch
The Answer To The Republican Governors Association’s Problems In Vermont (hint, she’s the only Republican who can win statewide in Vermont in 2010)
General Martha Rainville.
“The Fallacy Of Climate Activism”? (But What If He’s Right???)
A hardest of the hardcore climate activist’s call-to-arms: Beyond the Box We climate activists have to tread on uncertain ground and rapidly move beyond our current unpleasant but comfortable parts-per-million box. Here are some things we need to say, over and over again, everywhere, in a thousand different ways: Bitter climate truths are fundamentally bitter [...]
Allright, Now The Carol Shea-Porter Town Hall “Situation” Is Weird
Why is a supposedly grassroots lawmaker hosting a “town hall” in a federal building behind a security checkpoint? Uh…
Rock & Roll Monday
Oh. Yeah. Happy Summer, everyone!
Beijing Bankers, Call Your Office
Barf. (and why any health care bill that doesn’t bend the cost curve down is a non-starter with me).