There’s always a lot of tut-tutting when the White House releases the list of people who attend a state dinner. While a lot of that, for the dinner honoring Hu Jintao tonight, has to do with which members of Congress have blown off invites (John Boehner, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell, though McConnell’s wife Elaine [...]

The finance press is started a new meme–that Obama gave the union Chrysler and hurt some poor little hedge funds in the process.

It looks like Barney Frank is trying to reverse the really punitive aspects of the auto rescue plan snuck into the loan terms by Bush.

For some reason, the AP left out all the sacrifices the UAW has already made to make the US manufacturers more efficient.