The pace of campaign polling is heating up. And we have a series of new releases tied to PollTracker coming this month. First up a completely redesigned PollTracker at TPM and more. Stay tuned.
Late last year there was a minority view among economists that said the economy was about to perk up in a big way. And then it actually happened. And then it stopped happening. Our Brian Beutler spoke to one of the main proponents of this view to find out what went wrong.
The depressing upshot of this winter’s recovery-that-wasn’t is that the economy will probably limp along through the rest of the year, unless it actually gets knocked down by a collapsing Euro or some other outside force.
Beneath the obvious political and human costs of that volatility, though, lies the potential that everything we think we know about the chaotic post-election legislative landscape is totally wrong. Read More
Curt Schilling, famed former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, and champion of conservative causes hasn’t proved to be a particularly talented businessman.
Rhode Island lured his video game venture 38 Studios to the state with the promise of $75 million in guaranteed loans.
Today the company filed for bankruptcy.
But perhaps of more concern for Schilling, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies “are working together to investigate activities that have recently come to light at 38 Studios.”
The Large Hadron Collider — otherwise known as The Big Bang Machine — is apparently no match for the gravitational pull of the Moon.
No one seems to realize it yet. But a bad economy turns the budget debate in Congress totally upside down.
President Obama to make appearance in White House briefing room at 10:15 ET this morning.
Sales of a new generation of electric cars have been slow, thanks in part to little public infrastructure yet supporting them, but there’s still been a sense that American auto companies’ second dance with EVs is something more permanent.
But could America’s booming natural gas business change all that?
Jonathan Cohn: “Conservatives never liked left-wing, government-run solutions to problems like unaffordable health care and climate change. These days they don’t seem to like right-wing, market solutions, either.”