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Kaufman respected the streetwall! Rendering from Cava Construction, via New York YIMBY:

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Gorgeous. And it looks so good with 5Pointz -- a world-famous landmark that by all rights should be preserved instead of destroyed. To me they pair no less well than 300 Lafayette and the Puck...

The next renovation should replace those beige and brown floor tiles with something more cheery.

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Photo by lizabear on flickr

It's a win. Unpretty, but 3x better than the current fenced-in empty moat.

I visited Pier 17 the other day. It was busy. The tourist shops and the food court were doing a decent business. It was a good place to stop along the East River bike path.

There's been some...

^ He'd pay more taxes if he wins -- so isn't it an act of charity?

What do you suggest?

That's why he chose Biden, to add foreign policy experience to the ticket.
Reagan-Bush too.

You only choose a new face as veep if you've been around Washington forever, like Dole or Bush I or...

^ Thanks. For political use, it needs a catchy catchphrase. "Invest in America"? Something like that, with fewer syllables.

Clinton as president was really good at catchphrases. Like "mend it...

Perry is pretty far right, and though he's well traveled, his foreign experience is basically limited to Texas trade missions and border issues. Going by tradition, as nominee he'd pick a...

No, it's just what we need to get through a recession.

If we're smart, we'll start running surpluses again in the next expansion. Like we did in the 1990s. Instead of going deeper into debt, as...

Very true.



BBMW, right now, demand for Treasury bonds is so high that investors will lend to the U.S. at just a 1% annual interest rate for a 5-year bond.

So yes, you're right that USUALLY...

Coming out of the 1992 recession, Clinton raised taxes to fix the deficit. Obama couldn't do that. For Obama, stopping the massive bleeding of the economic crisis had to be the priority.

And the...

^ OK true, Clinton won children's health grants, Hope scholarships and Medicare mammograms in '97-'99. But most of his big legislative accomplishments were in '93-'94, when the Democrats held...

I agree that the GOP moved the goalposts on health care, repeatedly. But that's an argument against the GOP, not Obama.

Near-universal health insurance by 2014 is, in Biden's words, a big f'in...

What parts of his political agenda was Clinton able to enact after the GOP took Congress in 1994?

Both sides wanted to cut spending. The Democrats wanted to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and end some corporate subsidies. The Republicans wanted to end Medicare as we know it.
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BBMW, we'll see in 2012. For now, here's the American public's perception:

Democrats: 47% favorable, 47% unfavorable
Republicans: 33% favorable, 59% unfavorable

That unfavorable rating for...

Edd, we agree on most things. But I think the left expects way too much of Obama. They want him to be MLK and LBJ* rolled up into one presidential superhero.



Leadership differences between...

That's a foolish statement by Dowd. The Republicans control the House and can filibuster in the Senate. Democrats need Republican votes to get anything done. Anything. Any spending, taxes,...

^ BBMW, you mean we should raise the inheritance tax? ;)

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Press release

This opinion piece is from June. Lately I've been thinking about it a lot.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/16/opinion/Krugman_New/Krugman_New-articleInline.jpg


Rule by Rentiers
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Excellent article, eddhead.

Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics

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The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black...