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• Is Richardson a good fit as Commerce secretary?

  Wed Dec 3, 2008
  • I think his appointment tells us Obama intends Commerce to be a bigger job in his cabinet, which should make 'Main Street' feel better.

• What's the best solution for the Big Three automakers?

  Wed Dec 3, 2008
  • Surprise! Advertisements telling us we want gas-guzzling SUV's aren't working. Give us the cars we want now, not in ten years.

• Official: Obama taps Richardson for Commerce

  Tue Dec 2, 2008
  • From up on the New Mexico mesas, we see what Richardson's appointment as Commerce Secretary means.  Start your green energy proposal engines now!  Small Business Admin loans available for those wind-power dreams.  Voc rehab and sustainable jobs that reduce our import …

• Can Obama's coalition endure?

  Tue Nov 25, 2008
  • Yoohoo, the 'centrists' want things done.  I'll take 'centrist' suburbanites as a good guage of the general opinion we really want things done.  We're putting our children in tax debt, without assuring they have the productive capacity to pay it.  We haven't got enough …

• How do you feel about Obama's economic team and plan?

  Mon Nov 24, 2008
  • It's a good team. I think we'll have a good map of at least the first steps on the path to recovery by the inaugauration.

• Obama to unveil economic course, team

  Mon Nov 24, 2008
  • We either work together or we go under together.  We move fast to prevent it, or we get a repeat of the Great Depression.  That's not being debated.  It makes sense to me to put as much into giving people something to work with to pay off the debt as bailing out the …

• Should Hillary Clinton accept a role as secretary of state in the Obama administration?

  Wed Nov 19, 2008
  • I trust Obama's decision on this. He's the one who has to work with her.

• Should Congress allow GM to file for bankruptcy?

  Wed Nov 19, 2008
  • Restructure required. If it can be done without a bankruptcy filing, I'd prefer it. I just don't think it will be.

• What do you think about deflation?

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • I don't think it's avoidable at this point. How bad it gets depends on the measures proposed by the new president and approved by congress