The New York Times

The New York Times had a headline on its website – Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn’t sound very populist to me. Today’s commerce secretary, the names being talked about for treasury secretary, I think there will be populist talk but maybe no populist action. E. J. Dionne

Economic policies absorb almost

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff. E. F. Schumacher

I had been secretary

I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years – I had all these friends around the country – so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against … Read more