Paul Krugman is throwing Obama under the bus.  His latest column can be summarized like this:  The idiot Republicans are turning the US into a banana republic; Barack Obama could have easily stopped them but he is feckless and weak.Obama was going to be the new Lincoln or FDR.  Then the new Clinton.  Then it […]

Top story of the day: manufacturing won’t save the US middle class.  It won’t even save China’s.  From The Financial Times: Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue, plans to increase the use of robots in its factories 100-fold to 1m within three years, according to Terry Gou, chairman and chief executive.The move […]

The latest Gallup survey of US political ideologies is out, and anybody who wants to understand why Democrats kept ceding ground during the debt battle should take a look at these numbers.41 percent of American adults call themselves conservative, 21 percent call themselves liberals.  36 percent call themselves moderate; the biggest change in American political […]