Tim Trott’s Blog

Lawrence Summers, educated at MIT and Harvard, Ph.D. in economics, former President of Harvard and now President Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council recently said the government cannot step in and abrogate the contracts of the AIG bonus burglars. This puzzles me.
Tonight Keith Olbermann of MSNBC asked why are executive contracts sacrosanct, while busting [...]

Tomorrow Barack Obama will take the oath of office as President. That he is the first African-American President is epic history. That he takes the oath the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day adds a bittersweet quality to that history. That he is the visionary who can inspire our fractured nation goes without saying. [...]