As of Tuesday, September 4, 2012, things look bad and won't be getting better soon.

"As the TSA feels you up and dresses you down, terrorists are tearing a hole in a new target: The U.S. economy."

This isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.

"A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn’t trickle down to Main Street, financial reform that doesn’t fundamentally restructure Wall Street, and health-care reforms that don’t promise to bring down health-care costs have all created an enthusiasm gap. They’ve fired up the right, demoralized the left, and generated unease among the general population."

We won't spend the money necessary to prevent this from happening again.

An International Monetary Fund veteran explains how the US financial situation is like that of a less-powerful nation's developing economy. Oligarchy, corruption, and the financial sector's control of the government — it's not good.

Is it?

The four most common types of healthcare that really work and don't really work and how ours is a jumble of parts of all four and all the proposals are pretty shitty.