While the right wing is all atwitter over Moody’s reassessment of Ontario’s debt from stable to negative, it is perhaps a propitious moment to highlight a few inconvenient facts about the credit rating agency: As recently reported in The Huffington Post, Moody’s Corp and Standard and Poor’s triggered the worst
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Politics and its Discontents: A Politician To Respect
Although she is not one of ours, Democratic Senator Elizabethan Warren is one of those rare politicans who commands respect. Calm, even unflappable, and eminently logical, she handles herself with great aplomb in the following video as she defends her efforts to bring back the Glass-Stegall Act, legislation that was
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