If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have.
* “Badass” Barack Obama, speaking yesterday and (finally!) challenging the bonus-hungry bankers. Is this perhaps one of the positive side effects of the humiliating Senate defeat in Massachusetts?
As the Guardian’s Dan Roberts says: “Obama seems to be finally listening to [Paul] Volcker, who has been much more reform-minded than his more cautious advisers in the US Treasury.”
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And over here, the Tories have promptly jumped on the bandwagon. So, as James Macintyre has pointed out, “Gordon Brown, take note.” Once again, free-market, capitalist America takes a lead on economic and financial reform . . .
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