Our economic and political mess became more clear once I realized that most of the important political deals take place in the Mos Eisely Cantina.  You know the scene from the first “Star Wars” movie in 1976: a dark, smoky bar located somewhere in a twilight zone: a liminal and lawless hideout where the ethically reprehensible is the norm. We know our elected...

Think you know what the Obama administration means by words like freedom, democracy and the economy? Don’t bet your paycheck on it.  In Robert Reich’s December 14th blog, “Why America’s Two Economies Continue to Drift Apart, and What Washington Isn’t Doing About It,” Reich contrasts the Big Money Economy of Wall Street and big corporations – where...