Daily Archives: June 10, 2009
Will Government Motors do better than General Motors?
How likely is it that Washington will do a better job running GM than the executives who oversaw its decline? Daniel J. Ikenson and Howard Wial finish their debate. Will Government Motors Do Better Than GM? – Ikenson vs. Wial, … Continue reading
The U.S. has more leverage with China than it thinks
This week Timothy Geithner completed his first trip to Beijing as U.S. Treasury secretary, and from his account the three-day visit was a great success. The Chinese, he said, backed the Obama administration’s stimulus program, understood the temporary need for … Continue reading
Citigroup Circling the Wagons
It’s starting to look like the spring awakening in bank stocks may not be enough to save the CEOs of America’s biggest troubled banks, Citigroup’s Vikram Pandit and Bank of America’s Ken Lewis. A top banking regulator is agitating for … Continue reading
A Landmark Case
By any reading of the man, George W.P. Hunt — Arizona’s first governor — was a progressive Democrat. He favored creating an income tax, extending the right to vote to women, and passing compulsory education laws. But when it came … Continue reading
