Banana Republic

I was on the Alyona Show last night talking about the impending government shutdown. Regardless of your ideological predisposition, you have to see that this will have some negative effects for the economy over the short term. At this…

In a White House meeting intended to break the impasse, John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, instead pushed for deeper spending cuts as part of a deal that would keep the government running past a Friday…