One battle born of the 2008 financial crisis – the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – is still being fought by the mortgage giants’ private shareholders. Former President Donald Trump waded into the fray this month, making the case that if the law establishing the agency governing Fannie and Freddie had been constitutionally crafted, he would have been able to privatize them. H Read More
In front of the camera, Anthony Fauci was calm and cautious, despite reports coming out of South Africa that a new variant of the coronavirus had been discovered, a strain that the World Health Organization designated “a variant of concern” and would later dub “omicron.” There wasn’t evidence that omicron was in the United States just yet, President Biden’s chief medical adviser told CNN’s Brianna Keilar early Friday morning. Read More
News last month that President Biden makes electronic appearances from a pretend White House brought to mind another president whose image was carefully crafted to assuage the American people that all was well even when things were at their most dire.No, I’m not referring to Franklin Roosevelt, although his facade of the strong, virile man was as much of an invention as Biden’s carefully craft Read More
