With Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s term set to expire in January, the handicapping of the race to replace him has begun. The Washington Post this morning placed the highest odds on Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and former Fed Vice Chair and current TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! [...]
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1960s ‘Money-Market Men’ Design Their Dream Fed Chairman
With Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s term set to expire in January, the handicapping of the race to replace him has begun. The Washington Post on Tuesday morning placed the highest odds on Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and former Fed Vice Chairman and current TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson. Politics News Headlines – [...]
Voucher School Textbook Offers New View of 1960s
John Aravosis reports that voucher schools in Louisiana and Indiana are using a U.S. History textbook in their eighth grade classes that teaches that the “hippies” of the 1960s were draft dodgers who were rude, didn’t bathe, and worshipped Satan. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
Voucher School Textbook Offers New View of 1960s
John Aravosis reports that voucher schools in Louisiana and Indiana are using a U.S. History textbook in their eighth grade classes that teaches that the “hippies” of the 1960s were draft dodgers who were rude, didn’t bathe, and worshipped Satan. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
Magazine: Musicians Named Bob Dylan From The 1960s To Today
Musicians Named Bob Dylan From The 1960s To Today Tweet This Post
US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s
The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. Tweet This Post
1950s vs. 1960s
David Brooks: “In the two main Republican contenders, we have one man, Romney, who seems to have walked straight out of the 1950s, and another, Gingrich, who seems to have walked straight out of the 1960s. He has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with ’60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just [...]
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