Over at TPM Medialabs, we’re discussing how true identities versus anonymity affects the quality of user comments.
From the FT …
“Unless we are missing something the US is one false move away from a recession,” says Jim Reid, strategist at Deutsche Bank, who has warned the US could be approaching a “1937 moment” – when authorities removed post-Depression stimuli from still-fragile markets and triggered another recession. This risk, he says, has in fact only been magnified in the markets’ eyes by agreement on raising the US debt ceiling.
House Republicans try to force Reid’s hand on FAA shutdown but he won’t give in, tens of thousands thrown out of work.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA): covering birth control will make us a “dying civilization.”
Hearing from some folks up in the sausage factory that the Dems may not be giving in so easily on the FAA shutdown after all.
Fresh off debt ceiling crisis, Dems likely to concede Republican conditions on FAA shutdown.
Pelosi: My deficit committee members will oppose all entitlement benefit cuts.
The latest in the on-going drama: How many of Newt’s twitter followers are real? A search analytics service says about 8%.
(Next up: Is Newt real? Is Callista?)