Matt Stoller

As you can see from the twitter time stamps, El Presidente-elect Señor Trumpanzee only got-- at most-- 6 hours sleep, probably less.

Congressman Wright Patman (D-TX), chairman of the House Banking Committee, 1963-74, led the fight in Congress to stop the manipulators of the Federal Reserve System from 1937 to his death in 1976It flipped me out earlier in the cycle when Obama sent out numerous communications-- including radio ads-- to Democratic base voters in Florida, particularly African-Americans, that reactionary New Dem Patrick Murphy is a progressive.

You call this party food?Friday, almost buried in a post about why Tim Canova would be a better Representative for south Florida than Debbie Wassermann Schultz, there was some information about the Federal Reserve, Fed policy and Wall Street's marching orders to the Schumercrats to forbid an audit.

Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin, Senate Banking CommitteeMonday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an OpEd by two members of the Senate Banking Committee, the most conservative Senate Democrat, Joe Manchin (D-WV) and one of the most progressive, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), The Fed Needs Governors Who Aren't

With a very few exceptions, it was congressmen from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the Wall Street whores who fight alongside the Republicans against working families-- who got the short end of the stick Tuesday. Strong progressives in both Houses tended to win.

In her new book, A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren tries really hard to find nice things to say about Tim Geithner. But reading between the lines, it's very clear that she had, at best, mixed feelings about his role as Wall Street's man inside the Obama Administration.

I'm still in the beginning on the awesome new book by Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance. I just read a few pages every night before going to bed and then meditate on it as a lesson of the day.