When in the primaries, delegates always seem more radical than they actually are in order to appeal to the party base and win the nomination. As Obama shifts towards his fall strategies for combatting Senator John McCain, we notice that his stances on certain issues are beginning to mellow out to appeal to the more […]

There seems to be a general agreement among Democratic politicians that no matter what solution we come up with to issues in the economy, Wall Street will be heavily regulated for some time. The approach is to do as much as possible to prevent an enormous crash, because even doing too much is better than […]

All of us CNBC watchers were lucky enough to see clips from an in depth interview with Barack Obama on his detailed economic plan. The entire interview can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2), but here are some key notes from the speech.
His plan for restoring the economy:
- Modernize financial regulatory system
- […]

Prior to the suspension of his campaign, the businessman Mitt Romney was our favorite candidate in terms of economic issues. Lately, with McCain clinching the Republican nomination, articles on our site have generally agreed that he would have a stabilizing factor for the stock market.
But today a news article from The Weekly Standard brings […]

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of economics. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the opposition. That’s the sign post up ahead, your next stop…The Twilight Zone!
A person who has significant training and expertise in the field of economics would generally take […]

Join the forum discussion on this postOne of the things that we always hear Democrats talk about is finance reform. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, all of them really. But, as we have seen this may not be the case, such as the hedge fund donations to the Democrat campaigns, and the Edwards investments. Now it’s […]