Before I set out for a dinner party at our house in Newport, I thought I'd noted my most interesting visitor today was someone at the U.S. House of Representatives who searched at google on "walker gao medicare social security" and then spent over 7 minutes at 3:30 this afternoon reading my March piece on Walker leaving the GAO (plus two other pages.) The outclick was to one of my favorite groups of economists, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Saturdays, I round up the lineup for NewsTrust. Here what the community and I found starting last night. The featured topic was U.S. Economy, hence the emphasis in these stories from the US:For Democrats, Instincts Differ on Economics-- New York Times
- Pentagon's Accounting Mess --Portfolio (Special Report)
- The Question of Hillary Clinton's Guilt-By-Association Tactics --Huffington Post (Blog Post)
- For Bush in Last Year, It's the Principle --Washington Post (News Analysis)
- Bush Defends His Economic Record
- Mission Accomplished: A political farce--Seattle Post Intelligencer (Editorial)
- Bush says rebate checks will boost ailing economy --Reuters
- Consumers may get break on credit cards --Miami Herald
- Manias, Panics, Crashes, and the Devil Take the Hindmost --Seeking Alpha (Review)
- After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions --New York Times
- 10 ways to blow your tax rebate --San Francisco Chronicle (Opinion)
- The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash --Forex Trading Education
- Bush ignoring home front: Democrats --Baltimore Sun (Opinion)
- Obama May Levy $15 Billion Tax on Oil Company Profit --Bloomberg
- How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? --Time (Special Report)
- As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars
- Is the Worst Over for Wall Street? -- NPR Radio
Other U.S. Politics
- Obama Lead in NC Shrinks; He and Clinton Remain Deadlocked in Indiana
Zogby (Poll) - This Week in God--The Carpetbagger Report (Blog Post)
- Loyal to the Bitterness --Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
- Mccain: Iraq War Was for Oil? --MSNBC
- Investigative Project Releases Gov't Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror --Investigative Project (Special Report)
- The most influential US political pundits: 10-1 --Daily Telegraph (Special Report)
- Peter Birkenhead: Barack Obama: The Audacity Of Being Human --Huffington Post
- Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality --Too Much (Opinion)
- Superdelegates and the Rules of the Game – HuffPost
- Clinton's gas problem --West Virginia Blue (Blog Post)
- Questioner Dragged Out Of McCain Town Hall Talks To OffTheBus --
Huffington Post (Blog Post) - Defection of key Clinton ally tilts balance to Obama--The Independent (News Report)
- McCain Moves to 6-Point Lead Over Obama --Gallup (Poll)
- DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash--The Politico (News Report)
Other Business Stories:
- Radiohead Figures Out How To Sell 99-cent Song for $4.95 to 2,250 People
Portfolio - Source says Murdoch won't match offer for Newsday Newsday
- Higher Offer by Microsoft Brings Yahoo to Table --New York Times)
Other Sci-Tech
- Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence --New York Times
- Exercise Your Brain, or Else You'll ... Uh ... --New York Times
World:
- Palestinian Recruits Hit Streets Unprepared --Washington Post
- Bush admits he approved torture --Seattle Post Intelligencer (Opinion)
- Ticker tape still ain't spaghetti --Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Food Price Crisis --Global Pulse / LinkTV (News Analysis)
- For women around the world, life is getting worse--The Independent (Opinion)
- Tsvangirai 'fails' to secure outright win over Mugabe --The Independent
- US plan to protect right whale from shipping blocked by Cheney --The Independent
- Labour suffers big council losses --BBC News (News Analysis)
- Pakistani judges to be reinstated on May 12: Sharif –Reuters
- Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo after 6 years --Associated Press
- Cameraman held at Guantanamo freed --Seattle Post Intelligencer
- House prices down by 0.9%, says Halifax --The Guardian
