Tag Archives: Barack Obama

December 12, 2013

Unravelling America’s Problems with Incomes, Inequality and Upward Mobility

President Obama deserves at least two cheers for his recent economic address. In an unusually clear-eyed assessment of how the…Continue reading

December 8, 2010

Taxes and the Art of the Possible

Barack Obama exhibited this week what Machiavelli called the essential quality of a successful statesman, “virtu,” or the capacity to…Continue reading

January 9, 2009

Politics and the Economic Crisis

Barack Obama's historic election as a new, national agent of change will face a daunting test as the economic crisis…Continue reading