Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. February 21, 2008. Economic forecasting isn't an exacting science...yet the American public often knows we're in a recession well before the experts.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. January 29, 2008. If a government that protects ordinary people is a "nanny state," then one protecting the super-rich deserves the title of "super nanny state."
Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. January 18, 2008. It helps greatly that the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke, appears to be an intelligent, non-ideological adult